Group structures

A group structure in My Effectory is a representation of your organization. It is used to classify your employees into participant groups on a hierarchical basis. Every project you create in My Effectory must have at least one group structure.

What do I need group structures for?

Based on the structures, you can: 

• assign access rights to projects for managers and coordinators

• invite participants to your surveys

• analyze results

How can I set up a group structure?

You usually define the group structure during the initial project setup.

What types of structures are there?

You can create different types of group structures in My Effectory by arranging variables from your employee data into different levels to reflect your organization's setup. The quality and completeness of the employee data you import into My Effectory determine the range of possibilities of structures you can create in your projects.

The most common type is the organizational structure. This typically reflects an organization's current setup, starting from the highest level (the organization itself) down to the individual teams.

Examples of other common group structures are: 

• Geographic: Your employees are organized based on location data

• Demographic: Your employees are organized based on demographic attributes

• Functional: Your employees are organized based on role functions

• Division: Your employees are organized based on division units

• Project teams: Your employees are organized based on specific projects they are part of

• Managers: Only includes the organization's managers, organized hierarchically