Relationships?

[rosh41]

Hi,
I have an employee table with three other tables containing:
1. tblEmployee


2. tblDepartment
3. tblArea
4. tblSection

a. Is it normal to have a many-to-many relationship between tblEmployee and each of the other tables(with junction tables)? or
b. Can I just have a one-to-many relationship setup between tblEmployee and each of the other tables?

[ConneXionLost]

It depends:

- can an employee belong to more than one Department, Area or Section?
- Do relationships already exist between Department, Area and/or Section? If so, what are they?

Cheers,

[rosh41]

An employee ussually only belongs to one department + one Area + one section.(Maybe this is the obvious answer to my question: one-to-many)

I'm busy developing a training database spanning over a whole company with many departments, area's and sections.
I want to find a way to link certain courses exclusively to certain departments.(Like Eng, HR, Finance)
Would you achieve this by running queries on one big courses_table, or by using different courses_tables for each department?