You can establish a hierarchical organization structure to reflect your organization's unique needs and use it to filter, search, and identify your workforce.
This article guides clients on how they can configure organization structure, define worker relationships, establish departments, and assign teams and roles to individuals.
Please note that Deel only supports linear hierarchical reporting structures. We cannot support complex manager reporting structures that permit loops (sometimes called circular reporting lines).
In this Article
What is an Organization Structure, Worker Relations and Organization Positions
How to Configure Organization Structure
How to define worker relations
How to view a worker position and assign worker roles
How to view Org Structure
What is an Organization Structure, Worker Relations, and Organization Positions
Organizational structure defines the formal arrangement of roles and departments within your organization. It establishes the hierarchy, roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships within the organization. An org structure lets you group and view your workforce on the platform.
Worker relations refer to the interactions and collaboration between the workers in an organization. Worker relations play a significant role in shaping the organization structure by defining how teams and departments interact with one another.
Organizational positions are specific positions or roles within an organization. Each role has its own set of responsibilities, tasks, and authority levels. These roles are organized hierarchically within the organizational structure.
How to Configure Organization Structure
✅ Step 1 – Organization Settings icon > Org chart and Structure card
Go to the Organization Settings icon on your Homepage and select the Org chart and structure card.
In the Org Chart and Structures page, click on Org Structures tab.
✅ Step 2 – Click on Create New Structure
Clients can now set their org structure to group workers in different structures, view org charts and correctly configure approvals.
Please enter the org structure details and define the levels and sublevels. You can also choose to make this structure mandatory. This will ensure that during contract creation or editing of a worker profile, the worker will be mandatorily assigned to this structure.
Clients can also choose if they want their employees to be assigned to multiple teams and departments (structures).
You can now view the created Org structure by going to the People Icon on your Hompage and clicking on View Org Chart.
How to define worker relations
✅ Step 1 – Organization Settings Icon > Org Chart and Structure card
Go to the Organization Settings on your Homepage and select the Org Chart and Structure card.
In the Org Chart and Structure page, click on Worker Relations.
✅ Step 2 – Click on Create Relationship
You can now define a name for the primary party and secondary party.
Clients can also choose to make a new or existing worker relation mandatory. This will ensure during that contract creation or while editing a worker's profile, workers will be mandatorily assigned as one of the parties in the worker relation.
Deel only supports linear hierarchical reporting structures.
How to view and assign a Worker Organization Position
✅ Step 1 – Go to the People Icon and Click on All People tab
In the All People tab search for the applicable worker.
✅ Step 2 – View the Worker's Organization Position
In the worker profile, scroll down to Organization Position, here you can view the worker position based on the organization structure created by you.
If the worker role is not assigned then you can click on edit and assign a worker role in the Organization Position section. You can also add the worker to multiple teams.
Click confirm and update.
How to view Org Structure
✅ Step 1 – Go to the People Icon and Click on Org Chart tab
Clients can also view their organization structure by clicking on the Organization Setting Icon > Org Chart and Structure card.
✅ Step 2 – Group the Org Chart
Clients can group the org chart on the basis of worker relations, org structures, and worker country.
Clients can also visualize multiple org structures within an org chart.
Frequently Asked Questions
[ACCORDION] How is the organizational structure displayed in the worker profile?
Once you have configured your organization structure it is displayed in terms of Organization Position, the worker's Direct Manager, and existing Worker Relations on the worker's profile.
You can click on the People Tab on your Homepage and select the applicable worker.
In the worker profile, scroll down to view your worker's organization position, their Direct Manager, and existing worker relations.
[ACCORDION] What manager-direct report structure is not supported?
Deel does not support complex manager reporting structures that permit loops (sometimes called circular reporting lines). This means that a People Manager will not be able to directly report to their own managers.
An example of a circular reporting structure that is not supported in the Deel HR Org Chart hierarchy is :
(A -> B -> C -> A) or (A -> A).
John reports to Jessica reports to John is an example of an org chart hiearchy that is not supported in the current framework.
Deel only supports linear hierarchical reporting structures.
[ACCORDION] How do I export the Org Chart?
You can export High-quality Org Chart for Hierarchical or Org Structure views with filters applied.
In the Org Chart page, click the export button and select the information to display in the exported org chart.
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