Introduction to organization charts
An organization chart is often used for corporate intranets
to represent employees and their managerial relationships visually.
Such relationships have different representations:
- Line
- A direct relationship between superior and subordinate.
- Lateral
- A relationship between different departments on the same hierarchical level.
- Staff
- A relationship between a managerial assistant and other areas. Assistants may be able to offer advice to line managers. However, they have no authority over the actions of line managers.
An ILOG Elixir organization chart can operate in two
modes:
- Local mode
- To facilitate graphical navigation in large employee databases, ILOG Elixir organization charts in local mode display only a given employee, colleague, manager, and subordinate hierarchical level. In this navigation mode, automated drill down is activated to display only meaningful employees in relation to the selected one. For more information, see Local view mode.
- Global mode
- An ILOG Elixir organization chart also provides a global mode where all employees contained in your data sets are displayed at once. For more information, see Global view mode.
An example of a hierarchical organization chart is shown
in the following figure.
In ILOG Elixir 1.0, organization charts are characterized
by their layout and the type of presentation box used, see Organization chart item renderers for more information.