What % of your people are managers? Executive managers? Who has the greatest management burden? Here, 18% of the employees are managers, but as Measure 4 shows, their management loads are not distributed equally. Executive managers lead other managers, including line managers, who have only staff reporting to them.
2. Distribution by Level
Most positions in this organization (nine levels deep) are in the middle levels. How many levels do you have? Which level has the most people? Which level receives the greatest executive attention?
3. Size of Sub-Organizations
Do you have sub-organizations that are very big but many levels down? Sub-organizations here are generally small, but 15% have 25 or more people in them: 4% have more than 100 people.
4a. Manager Span
Four out of five managers here have fewer than 10 people repoprting to them. However, some 6% of all managers, have 15 or more reporting to them. Are your reporting spans higher? Lower?
What happens to these higher span managers during performance reviews?
4b. Distribution of Spans
Nearly 1 in 5 managers has 10 or more direct reports. These "hubs" include "super hubs," 45 people with 15 or more reports. What happens to them during performance reviews.
5. Location of Teams
Even in this time of highly distributed companies, most (62%) management teams here are collocated but many (38%) are not. How many locations are your direct reports in? Are some teams very spread out?
6. Hotspots
Some positions are, by measures of sub-organizational size, span, and physical distribution, are more complex than the rest. Can you identify your hotspot positions?
Six measures of our 4000-person demo organization chart shows how business intelligence is already embedded in a company's human resource data system. How does your organization measure up?
