Creating Parent/Child Relationships by Position

To show the reporting relationships among different positions within the organization, you can create parent/child relationships by position. For example, you can organize a reporting structure in which you define group leaders as parent positions to programmer analysts. The group leaders are, in turn, child positions to a department manager.

Defining parent/child relationships by position eliminates the need to continually revise an organizational structure when individual employees change jobs.

You can create parent/child relationships at any time that the management requires. For example, if the organization is in the process of resizing, you might need to create a parent/child relationship that shows the number of positions that report to the first level managers and distribute that structure to all of the managers.