57 Overview to Organizational Structure
This chapter contains these topics:
57.1 Objectives
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To define an organizational structure
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To review and print organizational structures
57.2 About Organizational Structure
To provide executives and managers with a summary of the reporting relationships within your organization, you can define an organizational structure. An organizational structure shows the flow of information within your organization.
The organizational structure that you define can vary from business to business, or even from department to department within your business. You can define an organizational structure by:
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Business unit
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Positions in the company
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Individual employee
The following graphic illustrates each type of organizational structure that you can define.
To meet the needs of different people, you can define multiple organizational structures and use them for different business purposes.
To satisfy the needs of different people in your organization, you can create multiple organizational structures that provide varying levels of detail. For example, top management might require a broad organizational structure that shows branch offices that report to the main headquarters. Directors of individual departments might need an organizational structure that shows each employee who reports to a single manager.
After you define an organizational structure, you can periodically review and revise it to reflect staff additions or turnover. You can print organizational structures and distribute them to members of your organization.
Working with organizational structure includes:
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Defining organizational structures
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Reviewing organizational structures
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Printing organizational structures