This function of grouping employees facilitates in keeping employee details tagged to their respective groups. For example if salary details are defined for groups specifying salary details for individual employee separately is not required.
Employee Group Creation
To Create Employee Group go to Gateway of Tally -> Payroll Info -> Employee Groups -> Create(under Single Group). Then the Group Creation Screen will open. There you have to fill the following field.
Category : In this field 'Primary Cost Category' will appear by default.
Name : Here enter the name of the Employee Group you want to create.
Alias : Here you can give another name for the group, if any.
Under : Here select the group from the List of Employee Groups under which this Group falls. If the Group you are creating is a Top Level group or you have not created any group yet, then you have to select primary.
You can also create sub groups under a group. For example you can create sub-groups like Accounts Manager, Accounts Officer under the group 'Accounts'. For that enter 'Accounts Manager' in the name field and in the Under field select 'Accounts'. In this case 'Accounts' group should be created earlier.
After you are done Accept to save the Employee Group.
