---
title: "Create Organizational Units"
slug: "create-organizational-units"
description: "The article describes several ways to create organizational units, the basis of the company organizational structure."
tags: ["IT Pro", "HR"]
updated: 2024-07-08T10:16:04Z
published: 2024-07-08T10:16:04Z
canonical: "help.lanteria.com/create-organizational-units"
---

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# Create Organizational Units

After creating all the underlying organizational entities you are ready to set up the company hierarchy. For each organizational unit, you can select the manager and employees.

There are several ways to create an organizational unit.

- From the **Settings** section.  
Follow these steps to create an org unit from the settings:
  1. Go to **Settings > Settings and Configuration > Core HR**.
  2. Click **Org Structure** in the left panel and click **Edit** next to the **Org Units** setting name on the **Basic** tab.  
![img039(1)](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img039(1).png)
  3. The **Org Units** list will open in spreadsheet view where you can directly edit the information you need.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img1056.png)
- Using the **Create Org Unit** quick link in the **Core HR** module **Quick Actions** menu.![](assets/images/pics/img041.png)![img041(1)](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img041(1).png)
- Using the **Create Org Unit** button on the **Core HR** > **Org Structure** > **Org Structure** page.  
![img042(1)](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img042(1).png)
- Using the **new item** link in **Core HR** > **Org Structure** > **Organizational Units**.![](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img1057.png)

The last three methods will open the **Organizational Units** **New Item** form:

![img043(1)](https://cdn.document360.io/c315c68d-2799-4fcc-9a39-084315b58f14/Images/Documentation/img043(1).png)

Fill in the fields with the following information:

1. In the **Organizational Unit** field, type the organizational unit name.
2. Provide the description for the organizational unit in the **Description** field.
3. Select the parent (managing or superior) organizational unit for the current organizational unit from the **Parent Organizational Unit** drop-down list.
4. Select the company the organizational unit belongs to from the **Company** drop-down list.
5. Select country and location the organizational unit is operating in from the **Country** and **Location** drop-down lists respectively.
6. Use **Add** button in the **Cost Center** field to select cost centers the organizational unit will be related to. Cost centers are used for reporting on costs allocated to organizational units that belong to them.
7. Select the legal entity the organizational unit belongs to from **Legal Entity** drop-down list.
8. Fill in the organizational unit identification number in the **Code** field.
9. Select the manager for the organizational unit from the **Org Unit** **Manager** drop-down list. The manager will set organizational unit goals, provide approvals, participate in performance and salary reviews, if there are steps assigned to the org unit manager role.
10. Select the **Is Inactive** check box to make the organizational unit inactive, which will make it unavailable for usage and remove it from statistics on dashboards.  
*Note**Please, use this option instead of deleting org units so as not to impair data history.*
11. Select the type of the organizational unit from the **Organizational Unit** **Type** drop-down list.
12. Select the **Deny Direct Employees** check box if no employees can be assigned to this org unit.  
*Note**If this setting differs from the same setting of the org unit type, the org unit value overrides the org unit type value.*
13. Click **Save**.

## Related

- [Set up Org Unit Types](/set-up-org-unit-types.md)