organizational task
163568·updated Sep 1, 2026This is a compositional phrase, not a term of art. "Organizational tasks" simply means the work activities, duties, and functions that a person (or automated process) is formally assigned to carry out on behalf of the organization — the ordinary sense of both words stacked together. In NIST SP 800-53 AC-6 (Least Privilege), the phrase appears as the boundary criterion for authorized access: systems should "allow only authorized accesses for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) that are necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks." NIST's own glossary defines a "task" simply as "an activity that is directed toward the achievement of organizational objectives," confirming that "organizational tasks" carries no meaning beyond that combination. Earlier NIST SP 800-53 revisions express the same idea slightly differently — "tasks in accordance with organizational missions and business functions" — showing that the expression is paraphrasable and interchangeable, which is characteristic of a compositional phrase rather than a fixed term of art.
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for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) that is necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks.the sentence this term was read in
generalized from a web lookup of the quoted expression at proposal time Verdict: compositional.
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A compositional phrase, not a term of art. It describes the set of duties, functions, and work activities that a user, role, or automated process is formally authorized and expected to perform on behalf of an entity. In access-control and least-privilege contexts across NIST SP 800-53, SP 800-171, and related frameworks, it serves as the boundary condition against which the necessity and scope of a granted permission is measured — only authorized accesses that are "necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks" are permitted — but the phrase itself carries no specialized definition beyond its ordinary meaning. NIST's own glossary defines "task" simply as "an activity that is directed toward the achievement of organizational objectives," confirming that the compound expression is assembled from plain components rather than coined as a technical term.
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Proposed during multiword review of this document in the CKI mapping queue.
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- plural
- organizational tasks
- possessive
- organizational task's
- pluralpossessive
- organizational tasks'
Framework definitions
- §1 · attested_usage_reviewer_confirmed
- No definition is given in NIST SP 800-171r3. The term is attested in use at 1 citation in that document; a definition is pending curation.Increment 2: attested in 800-171r3 without a glossary definition.
- §1 · web_lookup_draft
- This is a compositional phrase, not a term of art. "Organizational tasks" simply means the work activities, duties, and functions that a person (or automated process) is formally assigned to carry out on behalf of the organization — the ordinary sense of both words stacked together. In NIST SP 800-53 AC-6 (Least Privilege), the phrase appears as the boundary criterion for authorized access: systems should "allow only authorized accesses for users (or processes acting on behalf of users) that are necessary to accomplish assigned organizational tasks." NIST's own glossary defines a "task" simply as "an activity that is directed toward the achievement of organizational objectives," confirming that "organizational tasks" carries no meaning beyond that combination. Earlier NIST SP 800-53 revisions express the same idea slightly differently — "tasks in accordance with organizational missions and business functions" — showing that the expression is paraphrasable and interchangeable, which is characteristic of a compositional phrase rather than a fixed term of art.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column