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Contents Preface Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Audience for This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x How To Use This Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Other Information Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Do Not Use Database Tools to Modify Oracle Applications Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii About Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix Your Feedback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx Chapter 1 Employee Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 1 Employee Management Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 3 Tracking People’s Roles and Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 6 Person Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 8 Assignment Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 12 Defining Person Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 15 Defining Assignment Statuses (Assignment Window) . . . . . 1 – 16 Identifying Employees and Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 18 The Employee Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 20 Special Information Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 25 Template Windows User Interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 27 Folders for Saved Search Criteria or Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 32 Person Extra Information Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 33 Windows for Maintaining Personal Information . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 34 Finding a Person Using the Find Person Window . . . . . . . . . 1 – 36 Entering a New Person (People Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 37 Contents iii Entering Additional Personal Information (People Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 40 Entering Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 43 Entering an Assignment (Assignment Window) . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 44 Entering Additional Assignment Details (Assignment Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 46 Entering Additional Employment Information (Multiple windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 50 Entering Employment Information for Employees and Applicants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 51 Entering Payment Methods for an Employee Assignment. . 1 – 52 Setting Up Special Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 54 Enabling Special Information Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 55 Entering Employees Window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 56 Finding a Person or Group of People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 57 Managing Your Group Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 59 Entering a New Employee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 60 Entering Employment Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 62 Entering Visa Related Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 64 Activating an Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 65 Creating Additional Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 66 Changing Primary Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 67 Suspending an Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 68 Checking for Duplicate People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 69 Sending a Workflow Notification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 70 Saving Search Criteria or Search Results to a Folder . . . . . . . 1 – 71 Deleting a Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 72 Creating a New Group Folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 73 Employment Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 74 Workers’ Representation and Supplementary Roles . . . . . . . 1 – 77 Employment History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 79 Working Shift Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 80 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 81 Deleting a Person from the System (People and Delete Person Windows) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 82 Entering Special Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 83 Entering Supplementary Role Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 84 Entering Election Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 85 Setting Up Full Time Equivalent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 86 Entering Contract Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 87 Assigning Contract Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 88 Running the Calculate FTE for Assignments Process . . . . . . 1 – 89 Setting Up Shifts and Shift Patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 90 iv Managing Your Workforce Using Oracle HRMS (UK) Assigning Working Shift Patterns to an Employee . . . . . . . . 1 – 91 Entering OAB Person Type Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 92 Changing and Deleting OAB Person Type Usage . . . . . . . . . 1 – 93 Changing Primary Assignments (Assignment Window) . . . 1 – 94 Entering Secondary Assignment Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 95 Ending an Assignment (Assignment Window) . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 96 Using Mass Assignment Update. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 97 Reviewing Mass Assignment Update Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 102 Ending Employment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 103 Cancelling a Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 105 Entering Employment History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 106 Entering Addresses (Address Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 107 Adding Telephone Information (Phone Numbers Window) 1 – 108 Entering Communication Delivery Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 109 Entering Next of Kin and Other Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 110 Occupational Health: Medical Assessments, Disabilities and Work Incidents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 113 Entering Work Incident Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 116 Entering Medical Assessments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 119 Entering Disability Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 121 Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 124 Creating Contract Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 125 Defining Contract Letter Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 126 Entering Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 127 Managing Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 129 Generating and Printing Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 131 Employee Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 133 Creating a Competence Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 135 Entering Work Choices for a Person (Work Choices Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 137 Entering Qualifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 138 Entering Schools and Colleges Attended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 140 The Headcount Report Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 141 Using the People Folders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 143 Listing Assignments Using the Assignments Folder . . . . . . . 1 – 144 Listing Assignments Using the List Assignments Window . 1 – 145 Using the List People by Assignment Window . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 146 Listing Employees by Position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 147 Listing Employees by Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 148 Listing People by Special Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 149 Viewing Assignment History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 150 Running the Full Personal Details Report Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 151 Contents v Running the Employee Summary Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 152 Running the Employee Movements Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 153 Running the Assignment Status Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 155 Running the Terminations Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 156 Running The Headcount Detail Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 157 Running the Headcount Summary Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 – 158 Chapter 2 Recruitment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 1 Recruitment Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 4 Recruitment Preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 6 Raising a Requisition for a Vacancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 9 Defining a Recruitment Activity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 10 Viewing Vacancies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 11 Selection Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 12 Applications and Assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 13 Applicant Assignment Statuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 15 Interviews and Other Recruitment Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 18 Application Termination . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 19 Recording an Application Quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 20 Entering Full Application Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 21 Scheduling an Interview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 23 Running the Requisition Summary Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 24 Updating Applicant Assignments by Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 25 Cancelling an Applicant Record . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 26 Rejecting an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 27 Entering a New Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 28 Recording an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 29 Entering Application Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 30 Appointments and the Hiring Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 31 Changing the Hire Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 33 Hiring an Applicant (People Window) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 34 Rehiring an Ex–Employee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 36 Cancelling a Hire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 37 Making an Offer to an Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 38 Changing an Applicant’s Status to Accepted Offer . . . . . . . . 2 – 39 Hiring an Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 40 Ending an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 41 Reactivating an Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 42 Terminating an Applicant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 – 43 vi Managing Your Workforce Using Oracle HRMS (UK) Chapter 3 Career and Succession Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 1 Career and Succession Management Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 6 Competencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 10 Proficiency Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 12 Rating Scales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 14 Competence Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 16 Competence Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 19 Competence Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 21 Qualification Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 23 Creating a Rating Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 24 Creating a Competence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 25 Querying a Competence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 27 Grouping Competencies into Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 28 Defining Competence Requirements – Core or Generic Competencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 29 Defining Competence Requirements – No Core Competencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 31 Copying Competencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 32 Viewing Competence Requirements at Organization, Job or Position Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 33 Creating Qualification Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 34 Creating Schools and Colleges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 35 Appraisals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 36 Creating an Assessment Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 44 Deleting or Changing an Assessment Template . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 47 Creating or Changing an Appraisal Template (SSHR) . . . . . 3 – 48 Career and Succession Planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 49 Career Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 52 Career and Succession Plan Modeling Based on Jobs . . . . . . 3 – 54 Career and Succession Plan Modeling Based on Positions . . 3 – 55 Defining Career Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 56 Modeling Career and Succession Plans Based on Jobs . . . . . 3 – 57 Modeling Career and Succession Plans Based on Positions . 3 – 58 The Special Information Approach to Skills Matching . . . . . 3 – 59 Running the Skills Matching Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 62 Event and Attendance Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 63 Entering Performance Ratings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 65 Entering an Employee Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 66 Creating an Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 – 67 Chapter 4 Budgeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 1 Budgeting Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 4 Contents vii The Budget Cycle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 5 Budget Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 6 Budget Entry and Maintenance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 8 Budget Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 8 Budget Management Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 8 Renaming Period Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 10 Defining Budgetary Calendars . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 11 Defining Budget Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 12 Entering Assignment Budget Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 13 Setting up an Oracle HRMS Budget for Transfer to Oracle General Ledger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 14 Migrating a Budget to Oracle HRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 15 Defining Budget Characteristics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 16 Setting Up Budget Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 20 Completing a Budget Worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 21 Delegating Budget Worksheets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 25 Entering Non–Approved Budgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 27 Posting Completed Budgets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 28 Calculating Budget Commitments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 29 Reallocating and Reserving Budget Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 30 Posting a Budget to Oracle General Ledger as a Batch Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 32 Posting Budget Commitments to Oracle General Ledger . . . 4 – 33 Running the Relieve Commitments Request Set Process . . . 4 – 34 Reporting on Under Budgeted Positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 35 Reporting on Budget Status for an Element by Position . . . . 4 – 36 Reporting on Budget Status for all Elements, by Position and Organization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 37 Budget Status report for a specific Organization . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 38 Reporting status for a specific Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 39 Reporting status for a Position Control Organization by Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 40 Running the Staffing Budget Details Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 41 Running the Salary Review Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 – 42 Appendix A Windows and Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A – 1 Windows and their Navigation Paths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A – 2 Reports and Processes in Oracle HRMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A – 59 Glossary Index viii Managing Your Workforce Using Oracle HRMS (UK) Reader’s Comment Form Managing Your Workforce Using Oracle HRMS (UK), Release 11i A73290–02 Oracle Corporation welcomes your comments and suggestions on the quality and usefulness of this publication. Your input is an important part of the information we use for revision. • Did you find any errors? • Is the information clearly presented? • Do you need more information? If so, where? • Are the examples correct? Do you need more examples? • What features did you like most about this manual? What did you like least about it? 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