What information is communicated in an Organizational Chart?
Organizational charts regularly communicate: • Leadership • Organizational units or divisions • Culture as indicated by the horizontal or vertical character of the organization and comparative placement of various functions • Names and responsibilities of individual employees • Reporting relationships and dependencies • Location Charts may also contain: • Contact information • Financial information such as general ledger cost codes • Confidential employee information such as salary, start date, age or gender • Summary information such as headcount, budgets or sales quotas • Analytical information such as ratios of gender, race, age, or tenure Organizational charts facilitate: • Strategic decision support • Compliance executive and statutory • Budgeting • Operational and logistical planning • Knowledge management productivity and efficiency improvement from availability of information • Empowerment, teamwork, orientation, career and succession planning
