Understanding Security for Competency Levels

After an employee or an employee supervisor enters competency information, another person in the organization, such as a member of the human resources department, might be responsible for assigning a competency level (the employee level of proficiency) to each competency. You can select a different person to enter competency levels for each competency type or individual competency.

You set up security for competency levels so that you can specify the type of user who has permission to update the competency levels for each competency that the employee enters. For example, you might set up the training competency type so that the training development manager is responsible for approving each employee training competencies and entering the competency levels for each employee. In this case, the employee supervisor could select the Job Camp. In An Or Form exit (P08006) from the Managers Workbench program (P08712) to enter and review employee training competencies, but the supervisors would not be allowed to enter the competency levels for training competencies.

You use the Competency Update Events program (P05106) to set up security for competency levels. This program works in conjunction with a processing option on the Resource Competency Information program (P05100) to control access to the Competency Level field. You enter codes in the Competency Update Events program that represent a type of user, such as supervisors. These codes correspond to the values that you enter in a processing option on Resource Competency Information. You set up different versions of Resource Competency Information for each type of user.