Organizational chart

The organizational chart shows the division of a client into its organizational units hierarchically. It therefore provides a graphical overview of the organizational units and an overview of how they relate to each other hierarchically.
As the organizational chart only shows hierarchical structures, groups of other organizational types (such as loose groups, project groups or cost centers) are not displayed.

With the help of some parameters, either only organizational units or organizational units including the assigned employees can be displayed when setting up the organizational chart. You can also search for specific roles in the organizational chart. The departments are displayed with the desired role holders, e.g. assigned superiors or department heads.

Organizational units that have not yet been assigned to a higher-level OU are displayed in a different color. This means that they can be recognized at first glance and can be assigned to the desired position directly via the organizational chart.

From the user's point of view, the organizational chart plays a significant role when calling up certain information lists (information lists, e.g. management lists) or when querying the attendance table, etc.

Webdesk EWP uses the access permission to determine which parts of the organizational chart (groups) may be reported on and which organizational units the employee may view. Those groups for which there is no view permission cannot be selected in the organizational chart. You can find more details on this under Action management.

In contrast to the company organizational chart, non-hierarchical organizational structures such as loose groups or cost centers can also be displayed in the information lists, provided permission is available.

Webdesk EWP is able to memorize the user's query criteria when information lists are called up, so that the same selection of groups is suggested for the next query. If new query criteria are then required, these can be selected as usual.

Technically speaking, the company's organizational chart is implemented using the following relationships between the organizational elements:

• Affiliation of the employee to the organizational unit
• Relationships between the organizational units (parent/child)
• Assignment of the supervisor role to specific employees for a specific area of competence, i.e. for one or more hierarchical organizational units (department, team, division, staff unit, etc...)