A department in Tempus is an organizational unit inside a company, such as Engineering or Sales EMEA. Each contract is assigned to one department, and each department has managers who handle approvals for its employees.
Overview
The form is small (name, optional description, parent company, managers list). What matters is the authority that comes from being a manager. Departments drive approval routing for holiday, home-office, and overtime requests, and they are the default reporting scope: managers see their department first, HR sees everyone.
What it does
Listing an employee as a manager of a department gives them this authority over that department's employees:
| Capability | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Approve or refuse holiday requests | The standard leave-approval routing. |
| Approve or refuse home-office requests | Same routing as holiday requests. |
| Approve or refuse overtime declarations | Declared overtime needs sign-off before it hits the balance. |
| See department reports and time-points | Manager-scoped view of reports, time-points, and corrections. |
The role is per department, so an employee can manage department A but be a regular employee in B. Any manager can approve (first to act resolves, no escalation by default). Moving an employee to another department re-routes future requests immediately, but pending ones stay with the original manager. A contract with no department routes to a higher tier such as a global HR group, so most tenants always assign one.
See also
- Companies - the parent of every department.
- Employees - the people who get assigned as managers, or who belong via their contracts.
- Contracts - the binding that puts an employee in a department.
- Holiday requests, Home office requests, Overtime declarations - the requests that route through department managers.