Role and rights management of today's IT landscape is a challenging task that causes problems concerning the redundancy of organizational knowledge. This knowledge is the basis for specifying access rights and task assignment. As a consequence, the widespread technological methods are prone to inconsistencies on organizational changes, such as employees leaving, joining or moving within the organization. For this purpose, an approach is needed that offers both a comprehensive organizational meta-model and a declarative organization query language. The central meta-model helps to partially overcome the redundancy problem. In conjunction with the organization query language, the problems caused by redundancy is minimized. A query language expression describes formally characteristics of agents that are assigned to access rights, or tasks. Accordingly, this new approach uses a descriptive approach instead of total enumeration as required by other approaches. Thus, query expressions stay unmodified even if the organization changes.
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