clerical duties
Administrative filing work
Clerical duties are the routine administrative tasks that keep an office running: filing, typing, answering phones, managing correspondence, scheduling appointments, and maintaining records.
The term comes from clerk, the person who traditionally performed such work.
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These responsibilities are distinguished from professional, technical, or managerial work, though the boundaries often blur in smaller organizations.
- filingStoring documents systematically
- archivingStoring for long-term keeping
- record-keepingMaintaining organized documentation
- administrative tasksRoutine office management duties
- organizingSystematically putting in order
proofreading · paper clips · sticky notes · data entry · database management · categorizing · transcription · inventory control · liturgy · ordination · diaconate · photocopying · task prioritization · mail sorting · answering phones · indexing · faxing · church
- office workdesk work, filing, desks, email, emails
- church ministryyouth ministry, church outreach, women's ministry, youth mentoring, children's ministry
- busyworkbusywork, make-work, grunt work, drudgery, tedium
- canon lawchurch law, canonist, tribunal, canons, church court
- clergy manualsprayer book, service book, rubrics, baptism rites, wedding rites
- law practicelaw firm, law office, legal fees, billing, case files
clerical dutiesexecutive decisions
Authoritative choices by leadership
strategic planning · executive functions · policy-making · corporate governance · decision-making authority
clerical dutiesmanual labor
Work done bodily
fieldwork · factory work · blue-collar work · skilled trades · creative work