Organization Unit Parent/Child Relationships

The following diagram demonstrates the parent/child relationships between organization units. This works much like a family tree, except all levels of descendants are called children, rather than grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc.

The lineage relationships are shown by the blue lines in the example below.

• Organization units are parents of all organization structure levels in line below it.
• Organization units are children of all organization structure levels in line above it.

In the example above, the Enterprise unit is the parent of all the structure levels below it. All the other organization units are children of the Enterprise unit.

• Department A1 and Department A2 are children of Facility A and of Enterprise.
• Facility A is a parent of Department A1 and Department A2, and it is a child of Enterprise.
• Department A1 is a parent of Unit A1-1 and Unit A1-2. It is a child of Facility A and Enterprise.
  • Unit A1-1 and Unit A1-2 are children of Department A1, Facility A, and Enterprise.
  • Unit A2-1 and Unit A2-2 are children of Department A2, Facility A, and Enterprise.
• Unit B2-1 and Unit B2-2 are children of Department B2, Facility B, and Enterprise. They are NOT children of Department B1 because they are not in line below it.