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ORG CHART

The best for HR Teams in the world.

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Not a diagram Building tool!

Not Visio! Designed specifically for HR teams, our org chart builder offers over 200 features, scalability, and flexibility. It serves as the core of our HRIS, accommodating multiple entities and brands, and providing a single source of truth with position and remuneration libraries.
Not just a diagram tool

GETTING FAMILIAR

What is an Organizational Chart? An organizational chart is a visual representation of a company’s internal structure, showcasing the hierarchy and relationships between different positions and departments. It serves as a roadmap, outlining roles, responsibilities, and the chain of command within the organization. These charts are typically designed with boxes that represent individual employees or departments, connected by lines that illustrate their reporting relationships.

Organizational charts are crucial for clarifying the structure of an organization, facilitating communication, and improving efficiency by providing a clear view of who does what and who reports to whom. They can vary in complexity, from simple linear structures for small businesses to complex, multi-layered diagrams for large corporations, highlighting the interconnections and the flow of information across the organization.
How Organization Charts Are Used

Organization charts serve as versatile tools within companies, streamlining communication and clarifying structure. They are pivotal for onboarding new employees, offering a visual introduction to the company’s hierarchy and reporting lines, which helps in understanding their role within the larger team.

For managers and executives, org charts are instrumental in planning and decision-making, enabling them to identify gaps in the organizational structure, streamline processes, and allocate resources efficiently. They also facilitate coordination across departments by making it clear who is responsible for what areas, thus improving collaboration. Additionally, org charts are used in strategic planning and restructuring efforts, helping leaders visualize and implement changes more effectively. Externally, they provide stakeholders with insights into the company’s structure, enhancing transparency.

Overall, organization charts are not just static representations of a company’s structure but dynamic tools that support operational efficiency and strategic growth.
Tips For Making Org Charts Creating an effective organizational chart requires clarity, simplicity, and strategic planning. Start by defining the purpose of your chart: Is it for internal use, to improve workflow and clarify reporting lines, or for external use, to inform stakeholders about your company structure? Use a clear, readable design with consistent shapes for similar roles and lines to denote reporting relationships. Ensure it’s easily updatable, as roles and structures evolve. Include all key roles and departments, but avoid overcrowding; sometimes, grouping departments under a single head can maintain clarity.

Utilize software specifically designed for org charts to enable easy edits and scalability. Finally, involve input from various departments to ensure accuracy and comprehensiveness. An effective org chart is not just a snapshot of your organization but a tool for growth and efficiency.
How to Make an Organizational Chart
Making an organizational chart involves several key steps to ensure it accurately represents your company’s structure. Begin by identifying the purpose of your chart to tailor its design effectively. Gather comprehensive information about all departments, teams, and roles within the organization, including reporting lines.

Choose a software tool or platform that suits your needs, offering flexibility for design and updates. Start with the highest authority at the top, typically the CEO or President, and work your way down through layers of management to individual contributors.

Use consistent shapes and lines to represent positions and reporting relationships, respectively. Ensure clarity by keeping the design simple and readable. Incorporate interactive elements if the chart will be used digitally, allowing users to click through for more details about each role. Regular updates are crucial as your organization evolves to keep the chart current and useful.

KEY FEATURES

Easy Import From Excel

Easy 3 step Wizard – our org chart import tool, will turn your Excel spreadsheet into a functional org chart. It’s way more than name and position! You can import almost everything ' + 'about your employees! From the employee name, position, division, team, and their manager, all the way to their remuneration (REM) information such as: “John Smith, Project Manager, Product Director, IT Department, Product Team, Perm Part-time, $90,000 FTE, 24 hours per week (0.6 FTE) .”
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Customise Information to Surface on Nodes

As your org chart connects with your employee database, position library, and remuneration library, you have access to a myriad of information that you can surface onto the nodes or keep tucked away within each. Apart from employee names and positions, the Martian Logic Org Chart lets you decide on what additional information is important to surface. Choose to display division name, employment type, department, location/site, remuneration information… or even custom fields you might’ve created in the employee database. In a live SSoT manner, manage your data, your way.
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Admin Tools for Efficiencies & Consistencies

With user-friendly tools that allow you to easily add, remove, and move the nodes and branches on your Org Chart, admin users can quickly make adjustments to reflect the latest developments in your organisation. Whether it’s adding new departments, merging teams, changing reporting lines, or updating employee roles, these tools streamline and optimize the Org Chart maintenance process.
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Multi-User With Custom Access Control

Both HR and Managers can access the org chart as it comes with an unlimited user model. However, with our sophisticated access control you can, for example, limit the admin functions to the HR users and allow the managers to only see what’s on the surface of the nodes. Out-of-the-box our org chart comes with 6 user roles, including Admin, HR, and Manager. If they’re not flexible enough for you, you can build your own custom-role that 100% satisfies your access control policy.

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Always Up To Date & Ready For Business!

With the help of data-carrying veins connected directly to your database, you can leverage an intelligent and real-time updating Org Chart. No more hassle of manual changes in multiple places – instead, you can feel confident that your live and up-to-date Org Chart will always give you an accurate representation of your employees and positions.

Adaptable Data Structure & Data Architecture

Designed to accommodate the requirements of every industry, country, company size, corporate structure, and employment scenario, our platform caters to all structural cases. For example, if you have multiple employees performing the same position or multiple positions performed by the same employee, the platform will automatically structure your Org Chart to represent these scenarios. Customise and visualise your Org Chart in whichever way works best for you. Every organisation is different, and you don’t have to alter your business model for our org chart… our software will stretch, morph, and change to reflect your rules!

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THE HEART OF OUR HRIS

EVERYTHING CONNECTED
Your employee database, position library, remuneration library, and org chart are all linked, meaning each type of data is only stored once i.e. preserving data integrity and Single Source of Truth (SSoT).
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Connected with the rest of your database via two-way veins that transport data in both directions. This ensures that the org chart always stays up-to-date to the second, so you never have to waste any effort on updating it yourself.
RECRUIT & ONBOARD
Start from the org chart. The first module to know that a new person has been added – not the last!
OFF-BOARDING
Full custom off-boarding process that ensures all the required steps are taken and all the relevant stakeholders are notified.
CHANGE OF CONDITIONS
Changing an employee's conditions, like transitioning from Casual to Full-time, begins from the org chart, triggering a customized approval form and workflow.

Organisational Chart FAQs For HR

Still have questions? Take a read of our HR experts’ answers to the most frequently asked questions about organisational charts.
What is meant by Organisational Chart?
An organisational chart, also known as an org chart, is a diagram that details an organisation’s internal structure. It graphically represents the relationships between different employees and how they are positioned within their teams, departments, and the wider organisation. Org charts can be structured in a variety of ways, including in a hierarchical, divisional, and team-based structure.
 
More cutting-edge organisational charts, like the Martian Logic enterprise-grade offering, also highlight specific details about each employee and position. They also make it quick and easy to leverage advanced HR capabilities including requisition, recruiting, onboarding, cross-boarding, and offboarding processes all from the one place.
What is an Org Chart good for?
An org chart is good for addressing a number of pain points human resources professionals encounter when carrying out their day-to-day responsibilities.
 
They provide the tools and insights HR needs to expertly manage human resources in their organisations. From recruiting and onboarding, to cross-boarding and offboarding, the best org charts make normally complex HR tasks a breeze.
Org charts are good for:
 
  • Managing the total candidate and employee process.
  • Approaching HR tasks in a more efficient, methodical way.
  • Planning for company growth or downsizing.
  • Identifying the company’s chain of command.
  • Understanding how best to allocate company resources.
What is the best Org Chart Software?
The best org chart software should not only provide HR with a comprehensive overview of their organisation, but also provide detailed insights about each employee and vacant position. It should also be easy-to-use, adaptive to the needs of your organisation, and cost-effective.
 
You’ll find that Martian Logic offers all of these qualities and more. That’s why many industry experts consider it to be the best org chart software for human resources professionals.
Where can I make a free Org Chart template?
Once you sign up to your free Martian Logic plan , you will be granted access to our org chart software, where you can create your free org chart template with up to 20 nodes.
 
In our free mode, you will be able to leverage all of the features that make our org chart such an effective HR tool. If you would like to add more than 10 nodes, simply upgrade your org chart plan.
What are the 7 types of Organisational Chart?
There are numerous different ways you can structure your org chart. The 7 main types of organisational charts are:
 
Hierarchical: The most common structure, the hierarchical type shows a chain-of-command in a pyramid-like structure.
 
Divisional: In this type, an organisation is structured according to a company’s respective divisions; they can be product-based, market-based, or geographically-based.
 
Horizontal/flat: As the name suggests, this type of organisational chart promotes a horizontal/flat structure to reflect the limited hierarchy between those in management and regular employees.
 
Functional: While it shares some similarities to a hierarchical structure, a functional structure orders employees according to their skills and functions.
 
Team-based: A team-based organisational chart is a more modern structure that reflects different teams within an organisation.
 
Network: This org chart type is ideal for businesses that operate across different cities and countries and/or employ regular employees as well as freelancers, subcontractors, and vendors. It is used as a means to represent this complex web of relationships.
 
Matrix: A grid-like structure used to show project-based groupings made up of cross-functional teams. It is the least common type of org chart.
 
Our software caters for org chart design types 1 through to 6, making it one of the most flexible org chart creators ever.
 
It’s completely up to you how you choose to structure your org chart. It will ultimately depend on your company’s needs. The flexibility of our org chart creator allows you to experiment with different types to find the one that best suits your organisation. You can even use multiple types within the one org chart.
Can I create an Org Chart in Excel?
Yes, it is possible to create an org chart in Excel. You can either use an org chart template for Excel or start from scratch. However, keep in mind that it is very finicky and time-consuming to create an org chart in Excel⁠—even if you manage to find a good org chart template.
 
Another reason creating an org chart in Excel isn’t worth the effort is that it won’t have any real functionality. At best, you will be able to visualise the structure of your organisation. But you won’t be able to enjoy all of the useful features that an enterprise-grade org chart creator like Martian Logic provides.
Are there any other programs I can use?
There are numerous other programs you can use to make an org chart. For example, you can create an org chart in PowerPoint, make a Visio org chart, or even put together a Google Sheets org chart.
 
Again, while it is possible to use these programs, they will only provide you with limited HR functionality and insights. That’s why if you’re serious about effectively managing your company’s HR efforts, you need to make use of enterprise-grade org chart software like Martian Logic.
Which government departments use Org Charts?
Org charts aren’t just used by businesses and organisations. Many government departments also make use of them to represent who’s who in their department.
 
For example, if you want to understand the organisational structure of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade you can take a look at the DFAT org chart. Likewise, if you want to see how the chain of command looks like in Services Australia, look up the Services Australia org chart.