diff --git a/doc/maintaining/configuration.rst b/doc/maintaining/configuration.rst
index 12823a0d202..5b025c9c1fd 100644
--- a/doc/maintaining/configuration.rst
+++ b/doc/maintaining/configuration.rst
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ Example::
 Default value: ``admin``
 
 
-Makes role permissions apply to all the groups down the hierarchy from the groups that the role is applied to.
+Makes role permissions apply to all the groups or organizations down the hierarchy from the groups or organizations that the role is applied to.
 
 e.g. a particular user has the 'admin' role for group 'Department of Health'. If you set the value of this option to 'admin' then the user will automatically have the same admin permissions for the child groups of 'Department of Health' such as 'Cancer Research' (and its children too and so on).