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Over the past ten years, the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has developed a flat, flexible and highly competent organisation; an alternative to the more traditional hierarchy often found in public administration.
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The NPD has just two organisational levels and only five per cent management positions. Areas of responsibility and teams and employee portfolios are distributed among the managers, and the management has a collective responsibility for the organisation.
There are no sections or departments in the NPD, but rather about 80 teams with their own mandates and defined tasks.
The Directorate is a living organisation. Management responsibilities rotate, and process co-operations are created and disbanded. The employees rotate in and out of the teams, and decide themselves how to distribute their time between the various teams. The NPD has few managers, but many who exercise management.
In January 2009, the NPD received the Norwegian Government Agency for Financial Management's (SSØ) prize for the best management efforts. The prize is awarded to an agency that has contributed to realize the vision of efficient resource management in public administration. The jury's citation states that
”The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has chosen a flat, flexible organisation centred around teams – in contrast to the traditional hierarchy. Over a period of ten years of hard work, the model has shown good results in terms of technical disciplines, reputation, development of expertise, and efficient management and administration.”
Interview with the NPD director in connection with the GAFM award (in Norwegian only)
For more information about NPDs organisation, contact Jannicke Vikse, tel. +47 51 87 67 87.
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