Organization

[Annette]

I am very new to Sharepoint and have a general organizing questions.
We will be using Sharepoint to collaborate policies, procedures,
contracts, forms, budgets, etc. We were thinking about our top link
bar would have tabs like Employee Resources (employee forms and
documents -- all employees could view this informaiton).
Administration (all policy type documents that would gover the
Administration side of our organization - all employees could view
this information) and another tab for Departments/Teams (this tab
would have separate sites for each department and each department
would have separate libraries for policy, procedures, forms, etc.)

Our ultimate goal is for Admin to be able to look at all policies so
the view would find policies under the ADMIN tab and policy documents
in any of the Department/Teams tab in order to show the Admin users
every policy document we have in our organization.

Would we need to create a site under the ADMIN tab for policies and
create a site under each department in the Department/Team tab for
policy -- or do we have ONE library under each department and add a
column to the upload that would qualify it as a policy?

I am assuming that if an admin with rights that did a search at the
site level, they could find all the policies but would it be looking
at a column tag that noted it as such or would it need to be looking
at the site library name bucket to note it as such?

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!