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Reporting Manager

The Reporting Manager in Zoho People is the designated manager to whom an employee directly reports. This field drives the organisation chart, approval workflows, leave approvals, performance reviews, and manager self-service access across the HR system.

What is a Reporting Manager in Zoho People?

The Reporting Manager field on an employee record identifies the person directly above them in the organisational hierarchy. This is not just an informational field — it drives multiple automated processes in Zoho People.

How Reporting Manager is used

  • Organisation Chart: The reporting manager relationship builds the visual hierarchy automatically.
  • Leave Approval: Leave requests are routed to the reporting manager for approval by default.
  • Attendance Approval: Attendance regularisation requests go to the reporting manager.
  • Performance Appraisals: The reporting manager is the default reviewer in appraisal workflows.
  • MSS Access: The reporting manager sees their direct reports in their Manager Self-Service dashboard.

Multiple reporting lines

Some organisations have matrix reporting structures where an employee reports to both a functional manager and a project manager. Zoho People supports configuring an additional dotted-line reporting relationship alongside the primary reporting manager to accommodate this.

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