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 - BPM Edition’s Organization Modeler. Once defined, they can be used as process participants to define who a user task should be distributed to.