How to manage your corporation?
First we decide the possible roles.
Roles that can be assigned to members in a corporation:
- Director: A director is, for most intents and purposes, the same as a CEO in many respects. They can hire and fire members and change job descriptions (assigning both roles and grantable roles). Directors, as the next best thing to CEO’s, allow a corporation to function with members being based in different time zones around the world. It is probably wise for a large corporation to have members with this role spanning over varied time zones, allowing the corporation to be in manageable condition 24/7. This should allow corporations with international memberships to be effective in terms of management and being able to respond to situations effectively as they occur.
- Personnel Manager: A personnel manager can process applications and sign up new members.
- Station Manager: As the name implies, station managers can perform station management tasks for corporation-owned facilities. These tasks are varied and include adjusting the standing-based modifiers for allowing docking and the charges for it, as well as permission to access factories, the reprocessing plant, the repair shop, and also how modifiers should be applied for costs based upon standings for these tasks. The station manager is also able to set up station defenses.
- Factory Manager: The factory manager can eject blueprints from corporation-owned factories and research slots that belong to members. Additionally, they can see what is going on in any corporate factory and research slot. They have the ability to manufacture items for the corporation using blueprints and minerals from the corporation’s hangar floor and research blueprints in research slots.
- Accountant: Accountants can monitor and manage the financial affairs of the corporation. They can view corporation bills in the NeoCom “Bills” panel. From there, they can pay the corporation’s bills (with corporation money, of course) and see who owes an outstanding balance.
- Pilot: A pilot can take a ship that is in the corporate hangar.
After a player has applied to and been accepted by a corporation, either a CEO/Director or a player that has a grantable role may modify his role. This is done in the NeoCom “Corporation” panel by selecting the member from the “Members” list and then editing the member's roles.