Employee Concepts

Summary

These definitions provide a shared business vocabulary for the Employee module without describing implementation details.

Audience

• HR leaders and administrators
• Business analysts and product owners
• Customer Success, solution architecture, and QA teams

Purpose

Use these concepts when defining policy, acceptance criteria, business processes, and cross-module responsibilities.

Business concepts

Concept	Business meaning	Evidence status
Employee	A tenant-scoped workforce record with an employee code, name, current status, employment context, profile, and optional organization relationships.	Confirmed
Employment	The employee's work context: employment type, work location, joining date, confirmation date, and date of birth are represented. Business policy governing these values requires confirmation.	Confirmed structure
Manager	Another active employee optionally referenced as the reporting manager. An employee cannot report to themselves.	Confirmed
Department	An active tenant-scoped organizational unit to which an employee may be assigned.	Confirmed
Designation	An active tenant-scoped workforce position that may be associated with a department and assigned to an employee. It is not an authorization role.	Confirmed
Employment Status	The current workforce state: Active, On Leave, Suspended, or Terminated.	Confirmed
Employment Type	A descriptive value within employment context. No approved controlled business list was confirmed.	Requires confirmation
Employee Identifier	A generated record identity plus an employee code that must be unique within the tenant.	Confirmed
Employment History	Chronological timeline entries for creation, profile, status, department, manager, notes, and accepted external lifecycle activity.	Confirmed
Organization Assignment	The employee's optional current department, designation, and reporting-manager references.	Confirmed
Work Relationship	The combination of the employee record, employment context, tenant scope, status, and organization assignment. A separate governed work-relationship lifecycle was not found.	Transitional / Requires confirmation

An Employee record is distinct from an Identity account. The reviewed evidence does not prove one-to-one account provisioning or synchronization.

Organization relationship

The relationships describe current organization context. They do not imply authorization, an approval chain, or a complete organization-chart traversal.

Evidence basis

Definitions are derived from the Employee domain foundation and approved Organization documentation. Where the source stores a value but does not define a business policy, the policy is marked Requires confirmation.

Related Articles

• Employment lifecycle
• Employee profile
• Employee–organization assignment

See Also

• Employment status
• Employment types

Keywords

• Employee vocabulary
• Work relationship
• Organization assignment

Revision Information

• Status: Draft
• Last reviewed: 2026-07-15
• Review cycle: Quarterly