If you have received an invitation to join a group in the Upsteem.com system, i.e.:

• an organisation
• a project
• an activity group,

then that means it was sent to you by a user in the Upsteem.com system who thinks you have a contribution to make in that group.

Invitations to join different groups can be sent by users in the relevant role – managers, HR managers, administrators and, in the case of projects, project managers and persons responsible for projects.

Upsteem.com is designed above all for professional use and thus all of the units in the system – departments, projects, activity groups – must be connected with a specific organisation.

You should start by adding your own organisation. To do this, click on the button “Add new organisation”, which you will find in the ORGANISATIONS section of the right pane of your desktop window.

As the organisation creator, you will automatically be assigned as working in the organisation and in the roles of Manager and Administrator. An HR Admin module icon will also appear on your Desktop. Read more about this here

Once the organisation has been created, you can continue by creating departments, projects and activity groups. It’s just as easy as creating the organisation itself.

Go to the organisation’s Desktop and in the right pane, choose the unit you want to add:

• department
• project
• activity group

and click the "Add new..." button.

Note: The most convenient way to add departments and positions is to use the PEOPLE tab in the left pane of the Desktop.

Summary:

• You can create a complete structure for organisations. Managers have greater privileges than ordinary employees.
• Departments are structural units of organisations and they can be created only within an organisation or
• Projects can be created within organisations, departments or activity groups. You can create subprojects within projects

We have tried to make the structure of Desktops and profiles as uniform as possible for both individual users and groups (organisation, department, project and activity group). Thus, just as you have a personal Desktop, so does each organisation, department, project and activity group.

The groups associated with you – the ones in which you are a member – are displayed in the relevant section of the right pane of your Desktop. You can access the group’s Desktop by clicking on the group name.

You can access the group profile from the group’s Desktop. Just as your own Desktop has a pencil icon in the upper left section, so do groups’ Desktops. The structure of the group’s profile page is similar to your own profile.

On the group profile page, you can:

• enter information on the group, add an avatar
• enter contact details (for organisations and departments)
• configure the group’s visibility setting
• in the case of organisations, associate it with subsidiary and parent organisations
• in the PRIVILEGES tab, assign roles and privileges to group members

Note: A group’s so-called ordinary members do not see the group profile. To get the most out of the system, please be sure to read through the chapter on roles and privileges!

Adding people takes place through invitations. Clicking on the “Invite people” button on the position profile brings up the search and invite form.

It is always a good idea to first check whether the person you are about to add is already a registered user in the system. Only then invite the person via e-mail using the invite form below.

People can also be added immediately without sending invitations – click the Add this person” button on the search results or on the e-mail invite form.

Invitations can be sent later – an “Invitation” button appears by the names of all uninvited people and clicking the button sends an invitation to the corresponding person.

If the person has been invited to the position but has not responded to the invitation, a “reminder” button will appear by his or her name. Click it to send a second invitation.

The PEOPLE tab in projects and activity groups displays the members as a list. To invite people to the group or project, click the “Invite people” button.

An organisation and its groups – department, projects and activity groups – can be viewed as a single graph or tree. The roles and privileges are generally group-based and the privileges run down the tree. That means that if you have the role of Manager in the department, you have viewing and modifying privileges in all departments, projects and activity groups “below” that department.

As a rule, you do not have viewing privileges above your level, with two exceptions:

• HR manager
• Organisation administrator

The following are the options for adding roles in groups:

• organisation – Administrator, Manager, HR Manager
• department – Administrator, Manager, HR Manager, Organisation Administrator
• project – Administrator, Project Manager, person responsible for project
• activity group – Administrator

PLEASE NOTE!

If you create an organisation or department, you will automatically be added as employed there and assigned the roles of Administrator and Manager.

If you create a project or activity group, you will automatically be assigned the role of Administrator.

For all other members you add, you must assign a corresponding role!

Privileges related to roles are described in the PRIVILEGES tab of each group’s profile. The following lists all of the possible roles and describes each one:

• Manager – user with privileges to create, modify and delete a specific organisation or department. All operations with the organisation or department and constituent groups (organisation, department, project and activity group) can be performed – new ones can be added and existing ones can be modified and deleted. You can add and remove members to/from groups and assign roles to group members. Has access to HR manager application – can administer the organisation’s evaluation and appraisal surveys, administer the structure of the managed unit and sub-units, carry out evaluations and appraisals, enter job advertisements, etc. Users in the role of manager are automatically added to the managers section among the respondents of evaluations and appraisals in the HR management application.
• Administrator – user with privileges to create, modify and delete a specific group (organisation, department, project and activity group). Can perform all operations with a group and its subgroups – new ones can be added and existing ones can be modified and deleted. Can add and remove members to/from groups and assign roles to group members. No access to HR manager application.
• HR Manager – user with access privileges to the organisation’s HR manager application. Can make changes to the organisation and its departments – new ones can be added and existing ones can be modified and deleted. Can administer the organisation’s evaluation and appraisal surveys, administer the structure of the organisation, carry out evaluations and appraisals for the organisation’s employees, enter job advertisements, etc. Users in the role of HR manager are automatically added to the HR managers section among the respondents of evaluations and appraisals in the HR management application.
• Organisation administrator – person with administrator privileges within a specific organisation (including all of its departments, activity groups and projects). Can perform all operations with that organisation and all of its groups (departments, projects and activity groups) – new ones can be added and existing ones can be modified and deleted. Can add and remove members to/from the organisation and all of its groups and assign roles to group members. No access to HR manager application.
• Project Manager – user with privileges to manage a specific project and its subprojects. Can perform all operations with that project and its subprojects – new ones can be added and existing ones can be modified and deleted. Can add and remove members to/from the project and all of its subprojects and assign roles to members within them.
• Person responsible for project – user with privileges to manage a specific project and its subprojects. Can perform all add and modify operations with that project and its subprojects. No project delete privileges. Can add and remove members from that project and all of its subprojects and assign roles to members in them. User with privileges for administering a project and its subprojects within a specific organisation, department, activity group, etc. Can modify project data, add project members, add files, etc. Cannot delete project!
• Member – user with membership status in a group (organisation, department, project and activity group), who can write messages to the group, save files, create calendar events and initiate Team Spirit evaluations. Cannot perform operations in other groups.