Employees are not associated directly with organizations. Siebel CRM uses a mechanism named positions to define both the association of an employee to an organization as well as the reporting relationship or hierarchy of the positions.
Positions represent a job entitlement for which people are recruited and subsequently paid. Employees can hold more than one position, for example to take over a colleague's job during vacation or sickness. Positions can also be held by multiple employees, which is unlikely for a CEO position but maybe more likely for sales representative or call center agent positions.
Each position can be assigned as a parent position to multiple child positions, thus enabling the administrator to create the so-called reporting hierarchy, which defines both the career level and the data access rights of an employee who is assigned to the position. The following diagram depicts a typical position hierarchy and indicates that each...