Understanding the Approval Hierarchy

Human Resources also automates the approval process for performance appraisals. When a manager completes an appraisal, the system routes it to the person or people whom the administrator designates for review. You can specify any number of management levels for review. You can also specify a highest, final level of review. All designated managers must complete their reviews before the system forwards a message to the employee indicating that the appraisal is ready for review.

You use the Define Approval Hierarchy program (P05844) to establish the approval hierarchy before creating new appraisals. You must define at least one performance appraisal UDC so that the company can include the required approval levels.

The automated approval feature, which uses a hierarchy of approving managers, depends on accurate information about the parent child relationships in the organization. The Employee/Supervisor Relationship Build report (R05846) sets up and compiles this information for you. You typically set up this report to run daily. If this report is not set up or is not running daily, then select the Employee/Supervisor Relationship Build report from the Performance Management Advanced and Technical menu (G08PM3) and set up the report to run daily.