Enterprise and Workforce Management

Organizations

Key Concepts for Representing Enterprises

You represent your enterprise using key organization structures in Oracle HRMS. These structures provide the framework so you can perform legal reporting, financial control, and management reporting. You can set up these organization structures yourself, or use the Configuration Workbench.

The Configuration Workbench delivers an integrated configuration management toolset for HR systems and assists in the evaluation, configuration, deployment, and maintenance of HR applications. The workbench suggests a basic structure of organizations for your enterprise based on configuration models.

See: Configuration Models for Your Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

Once the basic enterprise structure is set up, you add the additional organizations and locations t`hat exist in your enterprise. You define the internal organizations that represent your internal divisions and departments, and you define the external organizations that represent the organizations outside of your enterprise. For example, you can set up an external organization to represent the tax office for which your enterprise uses for reporting purposes.

You can use organizations to represent many levels of your enterprise, from the highest level of organization that represents the whole enterprise, to the lowest level of organization that represents a section or department.

See: Extending the Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

See: Organization Classifications

See: Setting Up Organizations

Business Group

The business group represents a country in which your enterprise operates. You create it as an organization in Oracle HRMS, but it does not represent a specific organization within your enterprise structure, and you do not include it in your organization hierarchies. A business group enables you to group and manage data in accordance with the rules and reporting requirements of each country, and to control access to data.

The critical factors for deciding when to use a separate business group, or an international business group, are based on the following factors:

Generally the laws are so different in each country that to be compliant, there must be a different business group for each country in which an enterprise has employees.

Operating Company

An operating company represents a division or line of business within your enterprise that is legally registered for reporting in at least one country. An operating company is a holding company, a company within a company.

Ultimate Legal Entity

The ultimate legal entity represents the enterprise, and typically, the enterprise is the highest (global) level of a business organization. The ultimate legal entity is the parent company or organization for all its subsidiaries and divisions. Oracle HRMS represents the ultimate legal entity with the GRE/Legal Entity organization classification.

Legal Entity/Employer

A legal entity represents the designated legal employer for all employment-related activities. The legal authorities in a country recognize this organization as a separate employer. In an organization hierarchy, a legal entity may report to an operating company or to the ultimate legal entity.

A legal employer is a legal entity that is responsible for employing people in a particular country. Therefore, if you employ people in a country, then you must have at least one organization classified as a legal entity and a legal employer.

The Configuration Workbench classifies an organization as a GRE/Legal Entity where your enterprise operates in a country, and classifies it as an Employer if you employ people in that country also. For example, you can have a legal entity in a country where you do business, but do not employ people in that country.

Consolidated Legal Entity

A consolidated legal entity acts on behalf of multiple operating companies that are not legally registered, or simply on behalf of the enterprise in a country. You typically use the consolidated legal entity for when you have multiple operating companies in your enterprise, but for the purposes of consolidation, you group the information into one organization. For management reporting purposes, the organizations below the consolidated legal entity in an organization hierarchy, such as, your departments and sections, can report to any organization in the enterprise. However, for legal reporting purposes, they report up to the consolidated legal entity.

For information on how to model your enterprise using the key organization structures, see: Configuration Models for Your Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

Organization Classifications

Organization classifications define the purpose of an organization and its functionality within Oracle HRMS. The classifications you assign to an organization control the additional information you can set up at the organization level. The Configuration Workbench automatically assigns the appropriate classifications to the organizations it creates.

For more information on the key organization structures you use to represent your enterprise, see: Key Concepts for Representing Enterprises

You can define one organization with multiple classifications or you can define separate organizations to represent different types of entity. For example, you can classify an organization as a legal entity as well as an HR organization if it's the same organization. If they are different, then you create two organizations.

Note: Oracle HRMS enables you to install your own additional information types for classifications.

You can select the following classifications in the Organization window, depending on your legislation:

All Legislations

All legislations can use the following classifications:

US Legislation

The US legislation can use the following classifications:

UK Legislation

The UK legislation can use the Education Authority classification to define a Local Education Authority (LEA) that is responsible for education within that council's jurisdiction.

Canadian Legislation

The Canadian legislation can use the following classifications:

French Legislation

The French legislation can use the following classifications:

Dutch Legislation

The Dutch legislation can use the following classifications:

German Legislation

The German legislation can use the following classifications:

Hong Kong Legislation

The Hong Kong legislation can use the MPF Trustee Organization classification to set up and enrol employees in an MPF Trustee. This classification allows you to record details of the trustee and details of the scheme provided by the trustee.

Mexico Legislation

The Mexico legislation must use the legal employer classification to define the legal entity. You can add additional organization information for your legal employer, if needed.

Use the GRE/Legal Entity classification to define an organization that is recognized as a separate employer by Social Security or other legal authorities. When you assign a location to a GRE, and you have not already associated them with each other in the generic hierarchy, HRMS will make the association for you.

Saudi Legislation

The Saudi legislation can use the following classifications:

Hungary Legislation

The Hungary legislation can use the following classifications:

Spanish Legislation

The Spanish legislation can use the following classifications:

Korea Legislation

The Korean legislation can use the following classification:

Indian Legislation

Your organization hierarchy should contain at least one GRE/Legal Entity (Tax Organization) and Registered Company.

The Indian legislation can use the following classifications:

Polish Legislation

The Polish legislation can use the following classifications:

Norwegian Legislation

The Norwegian legislation can use the following classifications:

Finnish Legislation

The Finnish legislation can use the following classifications:

Danish Legislation

The Danish legislation can use the following classifications:

Swedish Legislation

The Swedish legislation can use the following classifications:

South African Legislation

The South African legislation can use the following classification:

UAE Legislation

The UAE legislation can use the Legal Employer classification to define and enter additional organization information for your legal employer.

Irish Legislation

The Irish legislation can use the following classifications:

Creating and Maintaining Organizations

Setting Up Organizations

You set up organizations to represent your enterprise structure in Oracle HRMS. To find out what organizations you require for your enterprise, see: Key Concepts for Representing Enterprises

Once you define your basic enterprise structure, you create the additional organizations and locations to represent the internal divisions or departments, and the external organizations for reporting or third-party payments.

See: Extending the Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  1. Create your locations. You define each location and address once only.

    See: Setting Up Locations, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  2. Create your organizations.

    Tip: To simplify your data-entry, consider using a fixed date as a default for your initial setup, for example, 01-JAN-1951.

    See: Creating an Organization

  3. Enter the appropriate classifications for each organization.

    See: Entering Organization Classifications

  4. Enter details for any extra information types.

    See: Entering Additional Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

Creating an Organization

Use the Organization window to create:

If you use the Configuration Workbench to configure your enterprise structure, then you only need to create the additional internal and external organizations you require. For example, you can set up additional organizations to represent the internal divisions or departments, and external organizations for reporting or third party payments.

See: Extending the Enterprise Framework, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

To create an organization

  1. Navigate to the Organization window and click New to create a new organization.

    Note: For information about querying existing organizations, see: Finding an Organization, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  2. Enter a name for your organization in the Name field. A check is performed to see if organizations with the same name already exist.

    All Oracle applications you install share the information entered in the Organization window. Therefore organization names must be unique within a business group, and business group names must be unique across your applications network.

    You can create two organizations with the same name in different business groups but this can cause confusion later, if the HR: Cross business group profile option is set to Yes and you decide to share certain information across all business groups. If you decide to create two organizations with the same name, be sure that this will not cause you problems in the future.

  3. Optionally, select an organization type in the Type field.

    Organization types do not classify your organization, you use them for reporting purposes only. The type may identify the function an organization performs, such as Administration or Service, or the level of each organization in your enterprise, such as Division, Department or Cost Center. You create the organization types you require by entering values for the Lookup Type ORG_TYPE.

  4. Enter a start date in the From field. This should be early enough to include any historical information you need to enter.

    Note: You cannot assign an employee to an organization before the start date of the organization.

  5. Enter a location, if one exists. You can also enter an internal address to add more details such as floor or office number.

    Dutch only: If you are setting up external organizations for a tax office, a social insurance provider or a private health insurance provider, you must enter the postal address and contact details using the NL_POSTAL_ADDRESS Location EIT.

    Mexico only: When defining a GRE/Legal Entity, if you select a location here, HRMS automatically associates it with this GRE in the Generic Hierarchy.

    US only: If you are using Oracle Payroll in the US, every organization to which employees can have assignments, including business groups, must have on record a location with a complete address. This is because the system uses the location of the organization of the employee's primary assignment to determine employee work locations for tax purposes. This does not apply to GREs, because the assignment to a GRE exists in addition to the assignment to an organization.

    India only: You can define an income tax organization and enter its location details. You can then select this organization at the GRE/Legal Entity Income Tax Office.

    Note: If you are an Oracle Inventory user, then you must not assign a location to more than one organization classified as an Inventory Organization.

  6. Enter internal or external in the Internal or External field. You cannot assign people to an external organization.

    Examples of external organizations that may require entry are disability organizations, benefits carriers, insurance carriers, organizations that employees name as beneficiaries of certain employee benefits, and organizations that are recipients of third party payments from employees' pay.

  7. Save the basic organization details.

Entering Organization Classifications

To determine the purpose and use of each organization you create, you give it one or more classifications. The setup information you enter for an organization depends in large part on its classification.

See: Organization Classifications

Note: If you classify an organization as a business group, it is not reversible.

To enter organization classifications:

  1. Enter the classification for your organization in the Name field.

  2. Enable the classification by checking the Enable box. This allows you to use and enter the essential additional information for your organization.

  3. Save the classification details.

  4. You can either enter additional information for the classification type or enter another classification.

    Note: Save each classification after entering and enabling it.

Entering Additional Information

For each classification you set up you can enter additional information. This information can be different for each classification.

For business group see: Business Group

For HR organization see: HR Organization

For representative body see: Representative Body

For constituency see: Constituency

For bargaining association see: Bargaining Association

For company cost center see: Company Cost Center

For professional body information see: Professional Body Information

For legal employer see: Legal Employer

See Classification and Additional Information Types if you need to check which classification to select.

To enter Business Group additional information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • Business Group Information, see: Entering Business Group Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Budget Value Defaults, see: Business Groups: Entering Budget Value Defaults, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Work Day Information, see: Business Groups and HR Organizations: Work Day Defaults, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Benefits Defaults, see: Business Groups: Defining a Default Monthly Payroll, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • PTO Balance Type, see Business Groups: Selecting a PTO Balance Type, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Recruitment Information, see: Business Groups: Entering Recruitment Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Payslip Information, see: Entering Payslip Information

    • Self Service Preference Information, see: Entering Self-Service Preference Information

    • UAE Information,

      see: Entering Local Nationality Information

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter HR organization additional information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • Reporting Information, see: Entering Reporting Information for an HR Organization or a Company Cost Center., Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Costing Information, see: HR Organizations: Entering Costing Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Parent Organization, see: HR Organizations: Entering Parent Organizations, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Work Day Information, see: Business Groups and HR Organizations: Entering Work Day Defaults:, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Payslip Information, see Entering Payslip Information

    • Self Service Preference Information, see Entering Self-Service Preference Information

    • Related Organizations Information, see: Entering Related Organizations Information for an HR Organization, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter representative body additional information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • Representative Body Information, see: Entering Representative Body Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Constituency information, see: Entering Constituency Information for a Representative Body, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter constituency additional information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • Location, see Entering Location Information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Organization, see Entering Organization Information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Organization Hierarchy, see Entering Organization Hierarchy information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Grade, see Entering Grade information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Bargaining Unit, see Entering Bargaining Unit information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Job, see Entering Job information for Constituencies, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter bargaining association information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select Trade Union Information, see: Entering Trade Union Information for a Bargaining Association, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter company cost center information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    • GL Company Cost Center, see: Entering GL Company Cost Center Information for a Company Cost Center, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    • Reporting Information, see: Entering Reporting Information for an HR Organization or a Company Cost Center., Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter professional body information

  1. Click on the organization classification for which you want to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select Professional Body Info, see: Entering Additional Information for a Professional Body, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  4. Repeat these steps to enter further information.

To enter legal employer information

  1. Click on the Legal Employer organization classification to enter additional information.

  2. Click the Others button to open the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Select one of the following:

    UAE Employer Details

    See: Entering Legal Employer Details

    UAE Gratuity Details

    See: Entering Gratuity Details

    UAE Reference Formula

    See: Entering Reference Formula

    UAE Reporting Data

    See: Entering UAE Reporting Data

Entering Additional Organization Information

Entering Payslip Information

To enter payslip information

  1. In the Organization window, query the Business Group if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select either Business Group or HR Organization, choose Others, and select Payslip Information.

  2. Click in a field of the Additional Organization Information window to open the Payslip Information window.

  3. Select the type of extra information to be displayed on the payslip. The choices are:

    • Balance

    • Element

    • Message

    Your selection determines which other fields you must complete in this window.

To enter Balance extra information

  1. Select a balance name.

  2. Select a dimension.

  3. Optionally, enter a display name for the balance.

  4. Optionally, enter a message text.

  5. Save your work.

To enter Element extra information

  1. Select the element you want to display.

  2. Select the input value for the element.

  3. Optionally, enter a display name for the element.

  4. Optionally, enter a message text.

  5. Save your work.

To enter Message extra information

  1. Enter a display name for the message.

  2. Enter a message text. This message will be displayed on the employees' online payslip.

  3. Save your work.

Entering Self-Service Preference Information

You enter self-service preference information to define whether documents such as the online payslip is available in either or both online and paper version.

Note: You can also enter this information at the Person or Location level.

See: Person Extra Information Types, Oracle HRMS Workforce Sourcing, Deployment, and Talent Management Guide and Location Extra Information Types, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

These information levels are arranged in a hierarchy. If you define self-service preferences at the person level, the settings will override any other settings made at the location, business group, or HR organization level. Similarly, if you define self-service preferences at the location level, the settings override any settings at the business group or HR organization level. Settings at the HR organization level will override settings at the business group level.

To enter Self-Service Preference information

  1. In the Organization window, query the Business Group or HR Organization if it does not already appear there.

  2. In the Organization Classifications region, select Business Group or HR Organization, choose Others, and select Self Service Preference.

  3. Click in a field of the Additional Organization Information window to open the Self Service Preference window.

  4. Select the document type for which you want to define preferences.

    Australia users: Select payslip, payment summary, or payslip modeler.

    If Payslip Modeler functionality is available, you must select the document type as Payslip Modeler.

  5. Select whether you want the document to be available online.

  6. Select whether you want the document to be available on paper.

  7. If you are providing payslips in PDF format:.Select the appropriate localization template. If you do not select the a payslip template, then the web web-based payslip is displayed

    Note: Australia, China, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea, and New Zealand users should select the appropriate predefined localization template.

    • You can append custom data to the generated XML. Specify the custom package and procedure in the XML Code field as : <custom package>.<custom procedure>.

    • Specify the dates these changes are to take effect.

    Note: Template, XML Code and Effective Date fields in Self-Service Preference can be configured at the Business Group, HR Organization, and Location levels.

    The application generates either an Oracle Applications Framework (OAF)-based payslip or PDF payslip depending on the values entered in the Template and Effective Date fields. A PDF Payslip is generated when you select the template and enter the effective date on or before the payroll payment date.

    For example, consider the effective date of PDF payslip as 01-Jun-2016:

    If the payment date is prior to the effective date (31-May-2016), then the application generates an OAF payslip.

    If the payment date is later than the effective date (30-Jun-2016), then the application generates a PDF payslip.

  8. If payslip modelling is enabled for your localization, then select the template that you want to use for payslip modeling process to use, if you do not want the application to use the default template.

  9. Select the element set for elements that you want to exclude from selection when you run a payslip modeling process.

  10. Payslip Employer Address – Select either a GRE/Legal Entity Address or an HR Organization Address (default) to display on the payslip.

    Note: You can configure this segment only at the Business Group level.

    For Canada only – Both the OAF and PDF payslips display the HR Organization as the Employer Address.

  11. Display Payslip GRE Addr From – If you selected GRE/Legal Entity Address for the Payslip Employer Address field, select the effective date after which the GRE address displays on the payslip.

    Note: You can configure this segment only at Business Group level.

    For Canada: – This field is not applicable.

  12. Specify the Offset Criteria – Select either Payslip View Date or Date Paid to configure the date to be used for displaying Online Payslips. If this field is left blank or if the Payslip View Date is selected then the online payslip will be displayed based on the Payslip View Date that is defined for the payroll period. If Date Paid is selected, then the payslip will be displayed based on the Date Paid of the payroll run.

    Note: By default, Payslip View Date – Check Date for any period will be equal to the Payslip offset defined for the payroll. However, if the user manually changes these dates for any period, then the Payslip Offset for that period will be considered as the Payslip View Date – Check Date and not the Offset defined for the Payroll.

    If the Payslip View Date or the Payslip Offset is set to null, then all payslips (prior, current and future) will be available to the employee. By default, the Payslip Offset is set to zero when creating the Payroll definition.

  13. Select whether you want to display the rate details section.

  14. Save your work.

Business Group: Entering Local Nationality Information

Use the UAE Information window to indicate the business group that represents your enterprise's interests within UAE. Employees whose nationality matches the one you set in this window are eligible for various compensation benefits.

To enter local nationality

  1. In the Organization window, query the organization. In the Organization Classifications region, select Business Group, and click Others.

  2. Select UAE Information to display the Additional Organization Information window.

  3. Click in the UAE Information field, and select the local nationality for the enterprise.

  4. Save your work.

Entering Legal Employer Information

Use the UAE Employer Details window to record information about the legal employer. Labor office and social insurance reports require information about the legal employer.

To enter legal employer information

  1. In the Organization window, query the organization. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select UAE Employer Details.

  2. Enter the employer's social security number.

  3. Enter the 8-digit employer or establishment number. Each UAE employer has a unique identification number.

  4. Enter the type of services that the employer provides. If the employer provides multiple services, enter the primary service.

  5. Select what type of enterprise it is, for example, free zone, airlines, or private enterprise.

  6. Select a position hierarchy to indicate who can act as a signatory for this organization. Any person who holds a position in the hierarchy has this authority.

Entering Gratuity Details

You can calculate gratuity amount based on the actual number of days in a year, or on a fixed 30 days in a month and 360 days in a year.

Use the UAE Gratuity Details window to select the basis of gratuity calculation.

To select the basis of calculation

  1. In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select UAE Gratuity Details.

  2. Click the UAE Gratuity Details field to open the UAE Gratuity Details window.

  3. Select the basis for gratuity calculation.

  4. Save your work.

Entering Reference Formula Details

The UAE Reference Formula window contains the following sections:

To enter reference formula details

  1. In the Formula window, define the formula to attach in the UAE Reference Formula window.

    See: Writing or Editing a Formula, Oracle HRMS FastFormula User Guide

  2. In the Organization window, query the organization if it does not already appear there. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select UAE Reference Formula.

  3. Click the UAE Reference Formula field to open the UAE Reference Formula window.

  4. Attach your formula to the appropriate field.

  5. Save your work.

Entering UAE Reporting Data

Use the UAE Reporting Data window to record the employer contributions for basic salary, various allowances, and end of service deductions. You capture this data to ensure that it appears in social insurance reports.

To enter UAE reporting data

  1. In the Organization window, query the organization.

  2. In the Organization Classifications region, select Legal Employer, click Others, and select UAE Reporting Data.

  3. Select the user-defined balance and the attached dimension for the contribution you want to capture.

    The application uses the combination of the selected balance and dimension to calculate the appropriate contribution and display the value in the report.

  4. Click OK.

Jobs and Positions

Jobs and Positions

You define roles to represent the ways that different groups of employees work. In Oracle HRMS you can use jobs or positions, or a combination, to define roles.

Job: A job is a generic role within a Business Group, which is independent of any single organization. For example, the jobs Manager and Consultant can occur in many organizations. You can also use jobs to set up supplementary roles that an employee might hold, for example, fire warden, or health and safety officer. You can distinguish these supplementary roles from other jobs by using Job Groups.

Position: A position is a specific occurrence of one job, fixed within one organization. For example, the position Finance Manager would be an instance of the job of Manager in the Finance organization. The position belongs to the organization. There may be one, many, or no holders of a position at any time.

Example

In a large structured organization, you may have a permanent establishment of positions for most of your employees.

However, you may also have groups of employees hired to perform specific tasks. This can be on a temporary or a permanent basis. Staff in this category can include agency workers, consultants and contractors. For these staff, you can define the role more flexibly as a job.

Model Your Organization and Roles

When you plan how to model your organizations and roles, consider the following points:

If you decide to use positions to represent your enterprise structures you need to consider carefully how to use organizations.

Positions provide you with a finer degree of structural definition and control than organizations on their own. You can use both organizations and positions to represent your reporting structures. However, if you define both, you must also maintain both over time. This may lead you into duplication of effort and information.

Tip: If you decide to use positions to represent how people work in your enterprise, it is best to define most of the detail at the level of the position. Do not duplicate this detail in organization structures.

Use organizations to show your highest level of departments or divisions. Use positions and position hierarchies to show the reporting groups existing in your enterprise.

If you use positions to define roles, you can use Oracle's position and budget functionality to stay within budget and adjust position expenditures or budgets in response to changes in organizations, personnel, and funding sources. You can also use Oracle Workflow for routing position definitions and budgets for approval, and configure predefined business rules that perform necessary validations. See: Position Control, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide.

Additional Information About Roles

As you define roles in your enterprise you can describe their responsibilities, requirements, and working conditions. This can be done in a number of ways:

Job Groups

Each job is held in a job group. The job group is used to store jobs of a similar type together in one group. All standard jobs created in Oracle HRMS, that is, those jobs that define the role the person is employed to fulfil, must be stored in the Default HR Job Group. This job group is automatically created for your business group is given the same display name as the business group. The internal name for the job group is of the format HR_<Business_Group_ID>, for example HR_2273.

Only jobs entered in the Default HR Job Group will be available in other windows in Oracle HRMS such as Position, Competencies, or Assignment. The only windows within Oracle HRMS that can access jobs outside of the Default HR Job Group are the Supplementary Roles window and the Elections window.

You can set up additional job groups to store supplementary roles that your employees might fulfil. These would be performed in addition to the roles described above and could be as a result of company defined initiatives like fire warden, or defined by legislation such as health and safety representative.

See: Workers' Representation and Supplementary Roles, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

You can also set up job groups to be used by Oracle Projects.

The way in which your enterprise uses job groups will depend on the setting of the HR:Cross Business Group profile option. If this is set to Y then you can create global job groups that can be accessed by all business groups on your system. If it is set to N then you can only create job groups for use within your business group.

Note: The HR Default Job Group is business group specific and therefore all jobs held within it are only available within your business group. Global job groups only apply to supplementary roles within Oracle HRMS, and Oracle Projects.

Defining Jobs and Positions

Defining a Job

You use the Job window to define jobs, the skills that workers require, and the grades to which they can be assigned. You can also enter job evaluation scores, if you have set up a job evaluation system.

You can also enter supplementary roles in the Job window. You can record information about any roles an employee holds which are not part of the employee's contract; for example, fire warden or health and safety representative.

If you intend loading historic assignment details into Oracle HRMS, ensure you enter valid start dates for your jobs. You cannot assign an employee to a job before the start date of the job.

Tip: Consider using a fixed date as a default for your initial setup, for example, 01-JAN-1901. This simplifies your data entry.

To define a job:

  1. Enter a start date early enough to handle any historical information you want to enter.

  2. Select the required job group. This defaults to the Default HR Job Group for your Business Group and should not be changed unless you want to enter a job that describes a supplementary role to a person's normal employment, such as a fire warden or health and safety representative, or you are setting up a job to be used in Oracle Projects.

    Only jobs entered in the Default HR Job Group will be available in other windows in Oracle HRMS such as Position, Competencies, or Assignment. The only windows within Oracle HRMS that can access jobs outside of the Default HR Job Group are the Supplementary Roles window and the Elections window.

  3. Enter a unique name for the job. If there is at least one enabled segment in the Job Name flexfield, a window opens when you enter the Name field. You must enter a unique combination of segments in this window.

    The flexfield that opens is dependent on the Job Group you have selected.

  4. Enter a numerical approval authority value to define an approval level for incumbents of this job. This value is used by Oracle Approvals Management to determine whether a person has sufficient authority to approve a transaction.

  5. Indicate whether the job carries any additional employment rights or is a benchmark job. A benchmark job is one that can be used to represent a number of jobs in reports such as salary surveys.

    Save your work and do not complete any further steps, if you are entering a supplementary role.

  6. Select a benchmark job, if required.

    Note: For Indian users only: In the Further Job Information field, select the classification of the job, such as highly skilled or skilled. This is used for information purposes only.

  7. Save the job. You can now enter further information for the job you have defined. Note that you can only enter some types of further information, such as valid grades or work choices, for jobs defined in the Default HR Job Group.

  8. Choose Evaluation to enter evaluation information and an overall evaluation score for the job.

    See: Entering Evaluation Information, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    If you are using suitability matching, then enter your competencies using the Competence Requirements window.

    See: Defining Competency Requirements, Oracle HRMS Workforce Sourcing, Deployment, and Talent Management Guide

    Defining Job Requirements

  9. Choose Requirements to enter job requirements, such as required qualifications or valid experience, to help you match people to roles.

    See: Entering Job and Position Requirements, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    Other Information

  10. Choose Valid Grades to enter the grades to which workers can be assigned.

    See: Entering Valid Grades for Jobs or Positions, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  11. Choose Work Choices to enter work choices relevant to the job.

    See: Entering Work Choices for a Job or Position, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

  12. Choose Survey Mapping to link salary survey lines to your job.

    See: Mapping Salary Survey Lines, Oracle HRMS Compensation and Benefits Management Guide

  13. Choose Extra Information to enter job categories for the job. You can link as many categories as you need to a job.

    Mexico only: You must click this button and specify a Social Security Salary Type for this job.

    Note: If you have Oracle Projects installed, you can enter further information in the Extra Job Information flexfield.

    See: Implementing Resource Utilization, Oracle Project Resource Management Implementation and Administration Guide.

    You can investigate the job categories in your enterprise using HRMS Intelligence.

  14. Enter any additional types of job information for your enterprise.

    Note: You can only access job categories and other types of Extra Information if your system administrator has set them up for your responsibility.

Employment Agreements and Legal Compliance

Occupational Health: Medical Assessments, Disabilities and Work Incidents

Oracle HRMS enables you to record medical assessments, disability information, and work incidents for the people in your enterprise. It also enables you to link this information together. For example, if a medical assessment is required as the result of a work accident, and that assessment then diagnoses a disability in the person, you could relate these records to one another.

Note: The Medical assessments, disabilities and work incidents functionality may not be used by your localization.

Medical Assessments

The Medical Assessment window enables you to enter information about the medical assessments (consultations) provided to the people in your enterprise. For example, you can record:

A person can have multiple medical assessment records. For example, a person may have a recruitment medical and several annual medicals.

Disabilities

Using the datetracked Disabilities window, you can enter information about a person's disabilities. For example, you can record:

A person can have multiple disability records. Each disability can be linked to one work incident and to one medical assessment that diagnosed (or identified) the condition. Once a disability has been diagnosed and recorded, you can link it to multiple assessments that evaluate the disability.

Work Incidents

Oracle HRMS enables you to record work incidents, for example, accidents, that involve the people in your enterprise. Work incidents are incidents that occur:

Using the Work Incidents window, you can record:

A person can have multiple work incident records.

The graphic illustrates the relationship between the medical assessment, disability and work incident tasks. It shows the full process that you could follow if you wanted to record:

The "Start" boxes show the points at which you can start the process, depending on the task you need to perform.

Recording a Disability

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Entering Disability Information

HRMS enables you to enter detailed disability information for the people in your enterprise.

You use the Disability window to enter this information.

Note: If you want to record that a person is registered as disabled, but you do not need to hold information about that disability, you can just check the Registered Disabled check box on the Personal tab in the Person window.

See: Entering a New Person (People Window)

To enter disability information

  1. Set your effective date early enough to handle any historical disability information that you want to enter.

    Note: If you want to associate this disability record with an existing medical assessment or work incident, your current effective date must be later than the assessment and incident dates. Ask your system administrator to enable the Work Incidents and Medical Assessments windows if they are not available.

  2. Select the category of disability, for example, Severely Disabled.

  3. Enter into the FTE field the full-time equivalent that this person represents towards your enterprise's quota of disabled employees. If no quota scheme exists, then leave the default value as 1.00.

    Note: You can enter a number that is greater than 1.00, depending on the level of disability.

    The actual figure will normally be provided by the official disability organization.

  4. Select the status of this disability information.

    • Active: This information will be included in reports. You cannot enter an Active status if the record has an end date.

    • Inactive: This information will not be included in reports.

    • Pending: This information is not yet complete because you entered it before you entered the medical assessment confirming this disability (where the consultation result was Disability.)

    • Closed: This information has an end date because the person no longer has this disability.

    For Russian users only: Disability status is not applicable in Russia, so the Status field is not available to Russian users. Instead, select the type of disability. You can find this information in the disability certificate provided by the Office of Medical Examination. The application uses this information to calculate any tax benefits and deductions for the employee.

  5. Select the reason for the disability, for example, Occupational Incident. If the disability was diagnosed as the result of a medical assessment, select Occupational Assessment.

  6. Enter the percentage of disability as determined by the official assessment of this disability.

    For Hungarian and Spanish users only: The degree of disability depends on the category of disability. For example, if the person's disability category states that the disability decreases the work capacity by 50%, enter 50 as the percentage.

  7. Select the incident that is related to, or caused, this disability. The list of incidents is limited to incidents that occurred before the current effective date of this disability. When you select an incident, its date is displayed automatically.

  8. Select the medical assessment that recorded this disability.

    The list of assessments is limited to assessments that:

    • have a result of Disability

    • have a consultation date that is earlier than the current effective date of the disability

    • are not already linked to a disability record for this person

    • were linked to any incident that you selected in the previous step

    To link an incident to an assessment, see: Entering Medical Assessments, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide

    This field is not datetracked.

Entering Disability Registration Information

  1. Choose the Registration tabbed region to enter the disability registration details.

  2. Enter into the ID field the registration number assigned by the disability organization.

  3. Select the name of the official disability organization with whom the person's disability is registered.

    You create disability organizations in the Organization window, selecting the Disability Organization classification.

    See: Creating an Organization

    Japanese users only: Select the confirmation method by which the disability was confirmed by the employer.

  4. Enter the date on which the employee was registered as disabled with the disability organization and the date on which this registration expires.

Entering Additional Disability Information

  1. Choose the Other tabbed region to enter additional details about this disability.

  2. Enter a description of the disability.

    For Russian users only: Disability description is not applicable in Russia. Instead, enter the job conditions under which the disabled employee can work. You can find this information in the disability certificate provided by the Office of Medical Examination. You can use this information to identify suitable assignments for the disabled employee.

  3. Enter information about the work restrictions that the employee is subject to as a result of their disability.

  4. Enter further information about this disability if the Further Information field has been set up by your Oracle localization team.

    For Hungarian users only: Record if the employee is blind. The application uses this information to calculate any additional holiday or tax benefit for the employee.

    For Indian users only: Indicate if the employee has provided proof of disability, for claiming disability benefits.

    For Korea users only: Specify the following:

    • Disability grade

    • Effective date of the disability

    • If a certificate of disability is available or not.

    • Disabled type

      You require this information when the employee is eligible for disable exemption.

    For Mexican users only: Specify the following:

    • Disability ID of any related disabilities

      The list-of-values displays all previous disabilities for your employee.

    • Number of disability days subsidized by the social security agencies

    • Type of disability

      Valid values are:

      • General Disease

      • Maternity

      • Risk Incident

    • Result of the disability

      The Consequence field provides the following options:

      • None

      • Temporary Disability

      • Provisional Initial Assessment

      • Definitive Initial Assessment

      • Death

      • Relapse

      • Assessment after start date

      • Provisional re-assessment

      • Relapse without medical discharge

      • Definitive re-assessment

    • Disability control

    For Spanish users only: Record if the employee or dependent contact has a condition with reduced mobility. This information affects the employee's tax withholding rate.

    For UAE users only: Indicate if the employee's disability will impact their social insurance contribution. Only one disability can be considered for calculating the social insurance contribution.

    For Japanese users only: Specify the following:

    You require the following information to submit the disability reports to the authorities for statutory purposes.

    • Degree/Grade - select the degree if the employee is intellectually disabled and the grade if physically disabled.

    • Confirmation Method - select the confirmation method by which the disability was confirmed by the employer.

    • Severely Disabled - select Yes if the employee has severe physical disability or severe intellectual disability and must be counted as 2 disabled persons for reporting purposes.

    • Part-time Worker - select Yes if the employee is a part-timer for reporting purposes.

    The following information is required for the worker insurance report if the employee is disabled or injured as a result of work accident.

    • Wa Insurance Disability Grade - select the grade for work insurance purposes.

    • Insurance Injury and Sickness - select the values for the work insurance purposes.

  5. Save your work.

What Next?

To set up an assessment to evaluate this disability, choose the Medical Asse. (Assessment) button.

See: Entering a Medical Assessment, Oracle HRMS Enterprise and Workforce Management Guide for more information.

Maintaining Disability Information

You can make changes to the disability information that you saved previously, but if your disability record includes either incident or medical assessment information, you cannot change or delete this information once you have saved it.