Org chart template: a retail shop

Retail is the case where a normal org chart quietly lies, because it draws fourteen people as though they all work together. They do not. Half of them have never met.

• Supervisors exist because of the clock, not the work. Two shift supervisors, each running the same job at a different hour. The store manager cannot be there for both openings and both closings.
• Assistants sit under a shift, not under the manager. That is the honest picture: on a Tuesday evening, the person you ask is the evening supervisor.
• Most of the floor is part time. Fourteen boxes, thirteen people, and 10.0 full-time equivalents once the vacancy is filled — the wage bill follows that last number, not the headcount. Use the Team field for the shift and the chart shows at a glance whether one shift is thin.
• Stockroom is separate because the work is separate, and because deliveries arrive before the shop opens.

What to change first: the shift names in the Team field, and the part-time fractions. Those two turn this from a picture into a rota you can cost.

What to watch: whether both shifts have a supervisor and cover for that supervisor. One box deep on a shift means one sick day closes the till.