Understanding Global Job Updates

When you change job specifications for one or more jobs in your organization, you can automatically update job information for employees that are assigned to those jobs. For example, if you change the pay grade for the job named Accountant, you do not need to individually change the pay grades for all the accountants in your organization. Instead, you can run a program that globally updates pay grades for employees who are affected by the pay grade change.

When you run the Update Job Information to Employee Master program (R08801), the system updates job information on an employee's record to match the information in the Job Information table and generates a list of employee records that are affected by the update.

You can activate a common setting in the Common Settings for HR Employee Self Service Programs program (P05004) to change the source of the default information for benefit group, workers comp, and sub class for this update process. When you activate the common setting JOBXREF - Default Job Information from F08005, the information for these three fields comes from the Business Unit/ Job Id. X-Ref table (F08005). When JOBXREF is turned off, the information for these three fields comes from the job type.