The same as the manager field and officially nominated Assistant manager. The Manager and Assistant Manager will have the same privilege levels when interacting with HR records for that department.
=== Sort Order ===
For listing functions this can be used to over ride the alphabetic default sort ordering applied to a department list.
=== Parent Department ===
For a hierarchical listing of departments it is possible to specify a Parent Department. If no parent is selected then the department is considered to a be a root department.