Organizations Organization Units and Positions

Organizations, organization units and positions are structural elements that define the organizational structure of the enterprise:

  • Organizations denote the overall container for an organizational hierarchy. Typically this means a company.
  • Organizational units represent structural associations of people in the context of the organization. Organizational units can represent traditional, hierarchical entities such as a division, department or team. They can also represent functional or ad-hoc groupings, such as committee, a task force, a project management organization, a class (for education) and so on.
  • Positions define the membership roles of an organization unit. For example, a Customer Services department may define the positions of manager, team leader and customer services representative. A position can be filled by any number of human resources.

Organizations, organization units and positions are defined in TIBCO Business Studio’s Organization Modeler. Once defined, they can be used as process participants to define who a user task should be distributed to.