Workday HCM, Supervisory Orgs and Staffing Models

Workday HCM, Supervisory Orgs and Staffing Models Workday HCM

  • Business is constantly changing
  • Companies are growing, merging, consolidating and entering new markets
  • Workday HCM provides the core system of record enterprises need to manage the full hire-to-retire process for both employees and contingent workers in an increasingly global environment
  • Can align and realign your organization, workers and the supporting HCM processes in real time to support the company’s strategic objectives.

Workday HCM includes:

Staffing:

Define staffing type for an individual organization, division or for the entire company

Support applicant tracking and on boarding of new employees and contingent workers

Control the development of an operator from conditional or an employee to dismissed operator or retiree

Development:

Support for a multitude of organizational types—supervisory, costing, company/legal entities, regional, team, matrix and custom organizations

Organize and reorganize your workforce in real time and access up-to-date organizational charts for any organization in the business at any time

Supervisory Orgs:

Primary Organization structure in HCM,

Supervisory Organization controls workers and activates business process approvals

Few Key characteristics which are particularly for Supervisory Org:

Mainly Positions are created within the supervisory Organization

Workers must be hired into the open positions in a supervisory Organization.

Prerequisites

Business Site: At least one Business Site should be started into the file before forming a Supervisory Organization.

Business Site represents:

A physical location

Address is required

Time Profile- defines standard number of hours worked in that location each week and this is used to determine FTE. Time Profile must be created prior to creating the Business Site


Important Structural aspects

Information Why it is important

What Org Roles you require and what security groups should those roles be associated with (part of configurable security setup)

Drives who has access to data, who can initiate business processes and who can participate in business processes

Superior and subordinate organizations

Determines the supervisory organization hierarchy

Primary Business Site

Required data when creating a supervisory org. inherited from the superior supervisory org if not entered for subordinate

Who is the manager and other support personnel

Drives business process

Staffing model that will be used

Every Supervisory org must have a staffing model selected after it has been created

Reorganization

For creating an organization or making changes to org structure, a reorganization event needs to be created

Might include only one change or group multiple reorganization activities for multiple orgs

Reorganization event determines when the change will take effect

It is the effective date of the relationships between organizations

Reorganization is NOT…

The creation date/effective date of a new organization

Effective date for any changes to the organization descriptions or definitions.

Creating a Supervisory Org

Process Searchable Tasks

Verify the Time Profiles are available

Maintain time profiles

Create the Business Site that is require for the Supervisory Org

Create Business Site

Create Supervisory Org

Create Reorganization

Create Supervisory Organization

Assign Business Site

Managing Supervisory organization:

Workday allows easy changes to the supervisory organization

The below Changes include:

Adding a subordinate organization

Dividing an organization

When Headcount Management is enabled, you can move the headcount group to the new org or keep them in the previous organization

When Position Management or Job Management is enabled, individual positions and workers can be selected to be moved into the new organization

Changing a superior organization

Moved the entire structure, including all positions or headcount groups and workers plus all subordinate orgs

Inactivating an organization

organization using Headcount Management, need to move all headcount groups out of the organization prior to inactivating

organization using Position or Job Management, need to change all the individual positions and workers

Once a Supervisory organization is in-activated it can’t be re-activated

Move Workers

Allows workers to be shifted in or out of the Supervisory organization.

It is Not a business process

Not only a staffing part, also as a part of re-organization.

Creating a Subordinate Org

Process Searchable Tasks

Search for earlier created Supervisory org

Give Sup Org name in search box

Create Subordinate Org

Go to Related Actions for Sup Org and Choose create subordinate org

View Inherited Org Roles and Business Sites

Go to the Subordinate org

Check org roles and business sites

Jobs/Positions:

  • All staffing transactions in Workday, including hires, promotions and transfers takes place between Supervisory Orgs
  • Jobs/Positions are defined, opened, staffed and managed
  • Individual Position is always assigned to a specific org
  • A position is considered filled and unavailable to fill if there is a worker filling the position.

Job Profiles

  • Job or Position in Workday is based on a job profile
  • Job profiles enable to describe general characteristics of a job
  • To identify special skills, training another qualifications
  • Not specific to Supervisory Orgs
  • Job Profiles can also be used as criteria in compensation selection rules to generate compensation packages
  • Job profile definition consists of:
    • Job Title-name of profile
    • Job Code
    • Management Level
    • Exempt or Non-Exempt
    • Job Classification
    • Job Family-categorization
    • Company Insider Type
    • Work Shift Type
    • Pay Rate Type
    • Qualifications-Knowledge, Skills, Experience, Certifications

Positions

  • Positions are always associated with a supervisory org
  • Can be moved between orgs through staffing movements but must always be associated with a Supervisory Org
  • When filling a job/position, one must select a job profile
  • Cannot have a position filled in the system which does not reference a job profile
  • Edit a Position- allows the position definition to be changed
  • Close a Position- permanently closes the position to future hires
  • Job Profiles can be created and used for multiple positions (preferred when it makes sense)
  • Job profiles can be created to represent each job or position. This is not preferred due to the maintenance for the customer


Management Level Hierarchy

  • customer defined hierarchy that designates levels such as manager, vice president and so forth
  • Management levels are assigned to a Job Profile and can be used for reporting
  • or in the creation of some rules and business workflow


Staffing Models:

Each Supervisory Org will have a designated staffing model. The staffing model:

  • Determines the level at which you set staffing limits and controls
  • Where hiring restrictions are placed
  • How workers, jobs, and positions can be moved between supervisory orgs
  • The level of reporting available
  • Must be defined for each Supervisory Org

There are 3 unique staffing model options:

  • Position Management
  • Headcount Management
  • Job Management


Position Management

  • Staffing is done by creating and defining positions
  • For each position, hiring can be restricted to particular job profiles, worker types or business sites
  • Position management can be used to define required qualifications, experience and education levels for a worker
  • Provides great control over recruitment.
  • Particularly useful for Organizations that need to impose tight controls on who can be hired and require precise definition of each they want to fill


Features

  • Approved position is required before we can hire, promote, transfer, and demote workers.
  • You must specify the number of positions to be filled.
  • Each position which is created can have its self definition and hiring rules.
  • Positions remains open until they close manually
  • Can be moved in between Organizations

Headcount Management

  • Staffing is done by creating headcount groups specifying the number of positions/hours needed to be filled
  • Hiring restrictions can be placed to particular job profile, worker type or business site
  • Particularly useful for organizations that hire large number of into the same or similar jobs with same or similar requirements
  • Also beneficial for organizations which define broad categories of jobs.


Key Features

  • Must allocate positions to the headcount group before you can hire, promote, transfer, or demote workers into the group
  • You must specify the number of positions or hours to fill in the headcount group; hiring can continue until all positions or hours are filled
  • You have the ability to group positions together that have similar job and compensation requirements
  • Entire headcount group can be moved in between Orgs.

Job Management

  • Staffing is done by defining a set of hiring for the entire organization
  • You can restrict to job profiles, time type, worker type or business site
  • It is useful for organizations preferably for wide job conditions

For organizations that rely on work jobs and support to maintain the count of employees in a Supervisory Organization

Key Features

  • No system imposed limit on number of jobs that can be filled in an organization
  • do not required to manage a different, free position for position we want to fill
  • Hiring restrictions are equally applied for all the jobs in an organization.


Hiring Restrictions

  • Establishing restrictions for any staffing model may be done by using the following:
    • Job Profiles
    • Business Sites
    • Worker Type
    • Full Time or Part Time