Understanding Parent-Child Relationships

You can define an organizational structure to provide executives and managers with a summary of the reporting relationships in your organization. An organizational structure shows the flow of information in an organization. The organizational structure that you define can vary from business to business, or even from department to department within a business.

You can use an organizational structure to show reporting relationships among employees and supervisors. These relationships are called parent-child relationships.

You can define two types of parent-child relationships:

• A relationship in which an employee address can appear multiple times.

• A relationship in which an employee address can appear only once.

After you define a parent-child relationship, you can periodically review and revise that relationship to reflect staff additions or turnover.