Understanding Delegation
PeopleSoft Absence Management uses delegation to authorize another person to serve as his or her representative when working with absence transactions. For a manager, the user can delegate their tasks of approving time, entering employee time, or entering their own time to another person due to workload or their own absence from the office. For an employee, the user can delegate the entering of their time to another person while away from the office.
Delegation Terminology
The following terms are important to understanding the delegation feature:
Delegation: The act of giving one's authority to another user.
Delegator: A person that delegates authority to another user.
Proxy: A person granted authority to act on behalf of another user.
Delegated Authority: The rights and privileges that are given from the delegator to the proxy.
Delegation Request: A request from the delegator to the proxy to take on delegated authority.
Delegation Period: The time range in which the delegated authority is in effect.
Delegation Administrator: The system administrator who is responsible for configuring, managing, and maintaining delegated authorities.
Revoke: When a delegator withdraws delegated authority.
The delegation framework supports the following types of delegation:
Downward delegation of authority to a direct report or another person lower down in the reporting hierarchy.
Upward delegation of authority to a manager or another person higher up in the reporting hierarchy.
Lateral delegation of authority to a peer either within the same division or in a different division within the reporting hierarchy.
Note: To prevent situations of cascading or circular delegation chains, once the delegation framework passes delegated authority over an absence transaction to a proxy the proxy cannot delegate authority over that transaction to another user. The delegation framework only passes authority over transactions from initial delegator to initial proxy.