Using the Content Catalog

ePerformance uses content types and content items defined in the content catalog to identify the items by which employees are measured. Content types are used as categories for grouping similar content items. Content items are the specific items that you want to measure.

Content types are associated with the sections that form the structure of a document template and performance or development document. ePerformance uses content types to define the category of content items that can be added to document templates and performance documents.

This list includes some of the content types delivered and typically used by ePerformance:

  • MISSION

    Mission statements express an organization's purpose and vision. Typically, senior management defines and the board of directors or senior staff approve of an organization's mission statement. Business units might also establish mission statements to help guide the creation of initiatives, goals, and responsibilities. You can include one or more mission statements as items on performance documents, but more often, you'll include this on performance documents for informational purposes only.

  • INITIATIVE

    Initiatives are high-level plans, activities, or goals that support an organization's mission statement and define its direction. Initiatives usually guide the creation of goals and responsibilities. An organization may have multiple initiatives at any point in time.

  • GOAL

    Goals and objectives are specific results to accomplish. Typically, these statements describe a target that will be met or a condition that will exist when the desired outcome is accomplished.

  • RESP (responsibility)

    Responsibilities are usually based on job function. These are often broken down to specific tasks.

  • COMPETENCY

    Competencies are directly related to an employee's current role and may encompass skills, abilities, knowledge, or behavior, such as experience with office equipment, knowledge of special manufacturing processes, or a background in financial planning.

Once content types are defined, you can begin to link content items to content types.

This table provides examples of how content types and items in the Content Catalog for ePerformance might be set up:

MISSION INITIATIVE GOAL RESP COMPETENCY

  • Leading supplier of paper products.

  • Superior customer value.

  • Renowned research university.

  • Increase shareholder value.

  • Enhance customer productivity.

  • Deliver innovative solutions.

  • Increase customer satisfaction by 10%.

  • Increase cash reserves.

  • Cut operational expenses by 3% by fiscal year end.

  • Participate in quarterly close process.

  • Adhere to accounting standards.

  • Prepare quarterly and annual financial reports.

  • Abstract thinking.

  • Analytical thinking.

  • Conceptual thinking.

If you need to create new content types and content items, this table shows field mappings between Manage Profile and ePerformance:

This field in Manage Profiles maps To this field in ePerformance

JPM_CAT_TYPE

EP_JPM_CAT_TYPE

JPM_CAT_ITEM_ID

EP_JPM_CAT_ITEM_ID

EFFDT

EFFDT

EFF_STATUS_DESCR

EFF_STATUS

JPM_DESCR90

EP_TITLE

Note: The maximum length of the EP_TITLE field is 60 characters. The system displays the first 60 characters of the JPM_DESCR90 field (maximum length: 90) in the EP_TITLE field, and does not show the remainder of the content that exceeds the length limit.

RATING_MODEL

RATING_MODEL

JPM_DATE_1

EP_ITEM_DUE_DT

JPM_DATE_2

EP_ITEM_REMIND_DT

JPM_TEXT1325_1

EP_DESCR254

JPM_TEXT1325_2

EP_MEASURE

Note:

ePerformance enables you to associate sub-items to items. To accomplish this in the Manage Profiles business process you set up the relationship for the content item as a child of another content item.

See PeopleSoft Human Resources Manage Profiles: Defining Content Items.