Guide to
Organizational Charting

The Benefits of Organizational Charts

Organization charts are an extremely effective way to communicate organizational, employee and enterprise information. An org chart makes it easier for people to understand large amounts of information as a visual picture rather than as a table of names and numbers.

Organizational charts provide the greatest value when used as a framework for managing change and communicating current organizational structure. When fully utilized, org charts allow managers to make decisions about resources, provide a framework for managing change and communicate operational information across the organization.

Using org chart software Human Resources can create org charts automatically from HR databases and distribute them to management. Managers are then able to quickly visualize the organization and have the salary, gender and tenure information needed for decision-making purposes. Simply put, managing change is much easier when you can visualize the organization.

Organizational charts provide managers with specific departmental information that can then be used as a baseline for planning, budgeting and workforce modeling. It's easy to collaborate on important structural and personnel decisions when you have the overall picture along with the smaller views that make up that bigger picture. Organizational charts can be linked directly to spreadsheets or budgeting tools for interactive what-if analysis, making planning and decision making easier. Those organizational charts can then be used to provide scenarios back to executives, finance and HR for evaluation and approval. Managers may also use organizational charts to communicate and solicit feedback from their employees to build future plans. 

When organization charts are published and distributed to an entire organization, you have a compelling method for communicating valuable organizational information to all employees.  Org charts are ideal for sharing the organization's strategic vision, as well as defining responsibilities, dependencies and relationships. Good chart also allows you to organize your team with clear responsibilities, titles and lines of authority.  No document carries such important information, so concisely, and so easy to understand as an organizational chart.

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