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# How to Manage Departments
> Create departments, assign members, and organize your team structure in PlaneConnection.
This guide explains how to create and manage departments to organize your team members within your PlaneConnection workspace.
This feature requires **administrator** or **workspace owner** permissions. Changes made here
affect all users in your workspace.
**Who should read this:** Workspace administrators who need to organize team members into
operational groups such as flight ops, maintenance, safety, and administration.
**Prerequisites:** Admin or Account Owner role.
## Why use departments
Departments help you:
* **Organize your team** -- group members by function (flight operations, maintenance, safety, dispatch, administration).
* **Visualize structure** -- see your organizational hierarchy on the org chart.
* **Route notifications** -- direct safety reports, maintenance items, and other notifications to the relevant department.
* **Filter reports** -- run reports scoped to specific departments.
## Create a department
### Navigate to department settings
Go to **Settings > Departments**. This page lists all existing departments.
### Click New Department
Click the **New Department** button.
### Enter department details
| Field | Description |
| --------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Name** | Department name (e.g., "Flight Operations," "Maintenance," "Safety"). |
| **Description** | Optional description of the department's function. |
| **Parent** | Optional parent department for hierarchical structure. |
| **Manager** | Select the department head from your workspace members. |
### Save the department
Click **Save**. The department appears in the department list and on the org chart.
## Assign members to departments
### Open a department
Click a department name to open its detail page.
### Add members
Click **Add Members** and select team members from the workspace member list. You can add multiple members at once.
### Set department roles
Each member within a department can have a department-level role:
| Role | Description |
| ----------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| **Manager** | Department head with oversight responsibilities. |
| **Member** | Standard department member. |
## Edit a department
1. Navigate to **Settings > Departments** and click the department.
2. Update the name, description, parent, or manager.
3. Click **Save**.
## View the org chart
Navigate to **Settings > Org Chart** to see a visual representation of your department hierarchy. The org chart shows:
* Department names and their parent-child relationships
* Department managers
* Member count per department
The org chart is useful during audits and compliance reviews to demonstrate your organizational
structure and reporting lines, as required by 14 CFR Part 119 management personnel designations.
## Remove a department
1. Navigate to **Settings > Departments** and click the department.
2. Click **Delete Department**.
3. Confirm the deletion.
Deleting a department does not remove the members from your workspace. They remain as workspace
members but are no longer associated with the deleted department. Reassign them to another
department if needed.
## Related
Invite and manage workspace members.
All platform roles and capabilities.
General workspace configuration.