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title: Roles and Permissions in Zal.ai
description: Understand the different user roles in Zal.ai and what each role can see and do in the platform.
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# Roles and Permissions in Zal.ai

## What each role can see and do in Zal.ai

Zal.ai uses role-based permissions to control what each user can see and do. This article explains each role and why you may or may not see certain features.

**This article is relevant to:** All roles

## The Four Roles

### Employee

The standard user role. Employees can:

- View and manage their own goals, brag sheet, and profile
- Complete assigned review tasks (self assessments, peer reviews, upward reviews)
- View published performance reviews
- Participate in meetings and capture notes

### Manager

In addition to Employee access, Managers can:

- View team data via *My Team's Goals*, *My Team's Feedback*, and *My Team's Appraisals*
- Approve goals submitted by direct reports
- Create and schedule meetings
- Add feedback about anyone in the company
- Edit and submit AI-generated performance review drafts
- Publish approved reviews to employees

### HR

HR users have organization-wide visibility for oversight purposes:

- View all employees' profiles, goals, and reviews
- Access review cycles and calibration tools
- Participate in calibration sessions
- **Exception:** HR cannot see their own review data

### Admin

Full system access including:

- Everything HR can see, plus their own data
- User management (add, edit, deactivate users)
- System configuration (departments, grading scales, meeting types)
- Review cycle creation and management

## Why Can't I See "My Team's" Views?

If you're a manager but don't see *My Team's Goals* or *My Team's Appraisals*, check with your admin. Common causes include:

- Your role hasn't been set to Manager in the system
- Reporting lines haven't been configured (no one reports to you in Zal)

## Visibility Quick Reference

**Your own data:** Always visible to you

**Your team's data:** Visible if you're their manager

**Company-wide data:** Visible to HR and Admin roles only

**Private notes:** Only visible to the person who wrote them

- [Getting Started](https://help.zal.ai/getting-started?hsLang=en)
- [Company Administration](https://help.zal.ai/company-administration?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Manage People](https://help.zal.ai/company-administration?hsLang=en#manage-people)
- [Get Help](https://help.zal.ai/get-help?hsLang=en)
- [Reviews](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#main-content)
  
  
  
  
  
    - [Role-Based Guides](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#role-based-guides)
    - [Setup & Configuration](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#setup-configuration)
    - [Track Review Progress](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#track-review-progress)
    - [Nominate Peers](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#nominate-peers)
    - [Write Reviews](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#write-reviews)
    - [Complete Performance Reviews](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#complete-performance-reviews)
    - [Hold Calibration Sessions](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#hold-calibration-sessions)
    - [Share & Acknowledge Results](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#share-acknowledge-results)
    - [Access Results](https://help.zal.ai/reviews?hsLang=en#access-results)
- [Meetings](https://help.zal.ai/meetings?hsLang=en)
- [Inbox](https://help.zal.ai/inbox?hsLang=en)
- [Goals](https://help.zal.ai/goals?hsLang=en)
- [Feedback/Brag Sheet](https://help.zal.ai/feedback-brag-sheet?hsLang=en)
- [What's New?](https://help.zal.ai/whats-new?hsLang=en)

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