If a supervisor leaves the organization, the normal procedure would be for the relevant users to report to the next most senior supervisor in the organization until such time as the position of supervisor is assigned to a new user. An organization is provided with the flexibility to edit the reporting hierarchy without making any changes to the structure. For example, if the user assuming the role of a supervisor of an Organization Unit leaves the company, the reporting structure may be adapted to allow for users within that Organization Unit to report to another position within the same unit, or a position may be edited so that it reports to a user in another Organization Unit.