Understanding Group Build

These topics discuss how to:

  • Use the group build feature.

  • Create a group.

The Group Build feature provides a standard way to create groups of people in HCM. Once you've created a group, you can use it for a variety of purposes.

You might want to apply a business process to a group of individuals that crosses job, department, or even company lines. For example, you might want to offer a special bonus plan to your organization's research and development teams. The group includes everyone in departments 10200 though 10500. Using the Group Build feature, you can create a group consisting of departments 10200 through 10500 and administer the group's incentive plan using the Variable Compensation module. Later, someone else can administer salary increases to the same group using the Base Compensation and Budgets module. You define the group only once.

You can define groups in Group Build and use those groups in HCM applications such as:

  • PeopleSoft Time and Labor

  • PeopleSoft Benefits Administration

  • PeopleSoft Stock Administration

  • ePerformance

  • The following PeopleSoft Human Resources business processes:

    • Manage Base Compensation and Budgeting

    • Manage Total Rewards

    • Manage Variable Compensation

    • Manage Labor Administration

Creating a group in PeopleSoft HCM involves three steps:

  1. Define the population that belongs to the group.

  2. Set up group security.

  3. Refine dates and other application-specific parameters in individual PeopleSoft applications (if necessary).

Note: These steps are designed for experienced users who are familiar with the record and field structures in PeopleSoft HCM.

Use Group Build pages to:

  • Select the records, fields, and values that define the group.

  • Set up the group's security.

Groups for Manage Variable Compensation

To use an existing review group later in the Manage Variable Compensation business process, link the existing group ID to a node in the Variable Compensation Group Tree in the Manage Variable Compensation business process.

Group build comes with a group ID of No Group that is required for Variable Compensation processing. The group ID NOGROUP is used for Variable Compensation plans without groups. It is a reserved group ID, and you cannot create a Group ID of NOGROUP in the Group Build application.