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# Employee roles - Line Manager

After creating the [Organizational Structure](/en/article/organizational-structure-lmsckt/), you can set the individual organizational units to their **Line Manager** via [Employee Settings](/en/article/employee-settings-97nuq4/).

* In the main menu, click on **Employees**.
* Use the **filters **to search for a specific employee and view the **Employee Detail**.

![Employees](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/225d488d9db9b800/image_v7qst0.png)

* Select **Employee Roles**.
* In the **Line Manager** section, select the organizational unit to which the employee is to be managed.
* Confirm by clicking the **✔** icon.

![Employee roles](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/225d488d9db9b800/image_1kgfumf.png)

Now the employee is manager of all employees in lower organisational units and is also the direct superior of the employee within that organisational unit.

||| It is necessary that the supervisor is not included in the organisational unit he is in charge of in order to avoid a situation where he is in charge of himself.

![Org. Structure & Line Manager](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/225d488d9db9b800/image_ivsijd.png)

* ${color}[#01b204](**Green**) - shows the organizational unit to which the employee is assigned
* ${color}[#ff0000](**Red**) - shows the organisational unit to which the employee is a manager, with all employees assigned to this unit being his/her direct subordinates
* ${color}[#2d99ae](**Blue**) - shows the organisational units to which the employee is manager

| You can use the Drag&Drop feature to move organizational units

To change the Line Manager of an organizational unit, **delete **the employee's manager role by clicking on the **trash can** icon and follow the instructions again.

![Delete a role](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/225d488d9db9b800/image_by9l0w.png)