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By Madhusudhan M
Before we go ahead and create an Organizational Structure, let’s have a quick look at the terminology used in the organization
1. Organizational structure.
2. Enterprise structure.
3. Personnel structure
• Applicant structure
1. Organizational structure: It contains organizational objects /elements. These are called building elements.
Organizational unit O
Job C
Position S
Person P
Cost center K
Task T
Task group Ts
If we create any organizational object, System will assign a eight digit numeric number, which is called unique Number.
1. Organizational Unit: Represents a functional unit in your enterprise, Human Resources department, for example. Accordin
tasks are divided up within an enterprise, this could be a department, group or project team, plant, for example. Organizationa
from other units in an enterprise such as personnel areas, company codes, business areas etc. These are used to depict struc
(administration or accounting, for example) in the corresponding components.
A). Main Organizational unit / Root organizational unit: Whatever the organization we create for the first time is called
organizational unit.
B). Sub organizational unit: Under Main org. unit whatever we create is called sub org.units.
2. Job: Jobs, in contrast, are classifications of functions in an enterprise (administrator, for example), which are defined by the
of characteristics. Jobs serve as job descriptions that apply to several positions with similar tasks or characteristics.
Jobs are used as templates to create Positions that means to say without a job we can’t create a position.
Example:
• Manager
• Engineer
• Consultant
• Designer
• Administrator
3. Position: Represents a post that can be occupied by a person (employee) in the staff assignments of an organizational uni
administrator, for example. Positions differ from jobs. A job is not concrete but rather the basis for the creation of various posit
similar tasks and characteristics. . Positions are created based on jobs; it means to say without a job we can’t create a Positio
Job Position
Manager HR manager
Marketing manager
Finance manager
Plant manager
Site engineer
Software engineer
SD consultant
Web designer
1. Person: An individual, who is listed as an employee in Personnel Administration. A position can be occupied partially,
percentage.
2. Task: It is a collection of duties and responsibilities. Tasks are assigned to jobs and positions.
1. Task group: It is a group of tasks which can be assigned either a job or a position.
* HOW TO CUSTOMIZE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE*
1. Simple Maintenance
2. Expert Mode / Detailed Maintenance
3. Organization and Staffing
Comment: If we create organizational Structure in any procedure, the same structure reflects in other two procedures.
If we create organizational structure in Simple maintenance and Organization and Staffing the relationship between the object
by the system. Where as in detailed Maintenance the user has to assign the relationship code.
The relationship between two objects is expressed in three digit numeric characters.
For example:
In the above Organizational units i.e. BàTATA group of business shows its relationship towards A i.e. TATA mobiles, in the sa
TATA mobiles shows its relationship towards B i.e. TATA group of business. That means to say TATA mobiles reports to TAT
business / TATA group of business is the line supervisor of TATA mobiles.
Relationship
code Relationship bottom up Relationship top down