Understanding Organisational Structure

The Organisational Structure subsystem maintains all of the details required to fully define institutions, organisational units and locations.

A diagram is provided to describe:

• Relationships in the Organisational Structure subsystem.

Further information is available in the subsystem glossary and in the sections devoted to individual forms (accessed via the TOP OF ORG button above).

Relationships in the Organisational Structure subsystem. (orgpic2a)

The diagram below describes the relationships between data elements, and in particular, how they combine to create institutional structures. It shows the broad relationships between the main data groups within the subsystem, and can be used to determine the necessary order in which to create records for institutions, organisational units and locations.

The direction of an arrow indicates the relationship between two data elements. A solid line indicates that the relationship is mandatory. A broken line indicates that the relationship is optional.

For example:

• To define an Institution Address, an Address Type must exist and be assigned to the Institution Address.
• To define an Institution it is not mandatory for an institution address to be assigned to the Institution, however, in order to assign an address to an institution it obviously must first exist.