About role management
You can choose to join an organization owned by your enterprise as a member or as an organization owner, change your role within the organization, or leave the organization. Your organization role determines your level of access to organization resources as follows:
- Unaffiliated or no official organization role: you cannot access organization content or repositories, but you can manage enterprise settings and policies that impact your organization
- Organization member: you can access organization resources and content, such as repositories, but you cannot access the organization's settings
- Organization owner: you can configure organization settings and manage access to the organization's resources through teams, etc.
For information about managing other people's roles in an organization, see Managing membership in your organization and Managing people's access to your organization with roles.
Managing your role with the enterprise settings
You can join an organization owned by your enterprise and manage your role within the organization, directly from the settings for your enterprise account.
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In the top-right corner of GitHub Enterprise Server, click your profile picture, then click Enterprise settings.
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Next to the organization you want to manage your role in, select the dropdown menu and click Join as an organization owner or Join as an organization member.
