Organizational units

An “organizational unit” is a cover term for entities used to organize a company’s activities through the grouping and assignment of (partial) tasks to responsible individuals. Typical examples of organizational units include jobs and departments, but entire divisions or individual branch offices can also be viewed as organizational units. Organizational units are the traditional basic elements of a formal organization (established by official rules). Important tools for representing these structures include org charts, job descriptions and function diagrams. (Source: Wikipedia)

Organizational units and events

Event administrators with access to the organizational units selected under this menu item will also have access to this event. By default, subordinate organizational units are not included. For example: Event is released for organizational unit A. An employee with access to organizational unit AA, but not to A, cannot administer this event. Note that this setting has no effect on how the published event is displayed in the event catalog. This means that employees will always see all events in the Self Service (or Public) view. By searching on “Events for my organizational unit”, an employee can restrict the events shown in the event catalog to the ones from their “department”.

Matrix organizational unit

A matrix organizational unit is an organizational unit within a matrix structure (Matrix management).
A matrix organization is one possible structural principle that can be used to organize responsibilities within a company. In this structure, management functions are distributed over two equal and independent dimensions (e.g. functional and product dimensions). Employees are subject to two equally-weighted management hierarchies, e.g. they report to managers in general functional departments like procurement, production and sales, and also to managers for specific products. As such, a matrix organization is a form of multidimensional organization. (Source: Wikipedia)