We’ll be spending a lot of time on Point of View (POV) and target audience for the next few weeks. It will be useful to have a solid grounding in the basics of organizational charts, or Org Charts.
In the West, these have always been public or semi-public and as clear as possible.
Traditional Chinese enterprises treat this information as more sensitive, and tend to favor more complex structures.
Resources:
Org Charts & resources
http://www.orgchart.net/wiki/Main_Page
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Top 5 Reasons to Use an Org Chart
In today’s economy, most organizations spend thousands, if not millions, of dollars on solutions that track critical business assets – ERP applications to track financial data, CRM applications to track customers and network management solutions to track critical network devices. While these assets are important, they do not facilitate tracking or managing the most important asset in every organization — the company’s workforce. The lack of visibility organizations have in managing their workforce organizational structure negatively impacts their financial performance every day.
Regardless of what you call it — organizational chart or organigramme, an automated org chart tool should be the basis for all of your workforce initiatives. Here are the top 5 reasons why using automated organizational charts will improve human resource management and add value to any organization.
1. Instantly Access an Accurate View of Your Organizational Structure
Automated organizational charts go well beyond simple graphics by leveraging HR and ERP data located in a wide range of sources, such as comma-delimited text files, ODBC-compliant databases, LDAP-compliant directory servers or XML data sources. Instant access to your up-to-date organizational structure enables your company to:
- conduct head count analysis by role or department
- assess reporting structures
- understand the impact of downsizing specific departments
- and more…
By visualizing the entire structure of your workforce, data and structural inaccuracies can be quickly resolved and operational efficiency can be improved on a proactive basis.
2. Improve Communication from Top to Bottom
With organizational charts, senior executives, middle managers and human resource professionals have instant visuals of:
- detailed payroll information
- reporting structures
- security information
- hire dates
- termination dates
- employee contact information
- and more…
Every employee can also view organizational data, such as employee contact information through a standard web browser. By providing organizational knowledge, employees can immediately improve communication throughout the company.
3. Align Your Corporate Strategy with the Optimal Organizational Structure
With org charts you can conduct strategic “organizational modeling” planning scenarios that will help you determine the optimal structure for your business today and in the future.
Are you considering a merger or acquisition and want to see where the two companies have duplicate resources?
Do you need to know how realigning different departments can impact your bottom line?
With automated organizational charts and “organizational modeling” planning, the economic impact of these scenarios on your business will be easy to predict. An automated organizational chart enables your company to quickly adapt to ever-changing business requirements and market conditions.
4. Maintain Compliance with Government, Industry and Company Regulations
Compliance regulations demand that companies document accurate reporting structures, employee access privileges, the roles individuals play in critical business processes, and more. Organizations mitigate risk by validating compliance with government, industry and corporate regulations using accurate, enterprise-wide organizational charts. With automated organizational charts you can maintain accurate, enterprise-wide workforce compliance documentation and conduct compliance audits on a consistent basis.
5. Improve and Maintain Workforce Data Integrity across the Organization
Maintaining accurate workforce data is difficult when:
- people come and go
- individuals are promoted, change positions or titles
- employees are relocated
- departments expand and contract
These challenges combined with the fact that critical workforce information is spread out in a wide-range of places (HR, ERP, Information Systems, or spreadsheets), maintaining accurate organizational data can be next to impossible. Automated organizational charts can capture and visualize data from any source, provide the entire organization with a visual representation of reporting relationships and allow managers or team members to modify information under their span of control.
The detailed workforce data you need exists today. You simply require an org charting solution that can help you put it to work. Ready for an automated org chart solution? Download an organizational chart software solution now to create professional org charts in minutes.
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http://www.nyu.edu/financial.services/cdv/pdf/payroll_orgchart.pdf
