Tracking and Routing a PAR Through Reviews and Completion

The Employee Request, Supervisor Request, and HR Request components are identical. The only difference is in the type of data that is accessible to each group, according to security options and allowable actions.

Note:

The information you need to track and route a PAR is the same type of information you enter to hire employees. Use the same pages for both.

Your agency determines the actions and data available to employees, supervisors, and human resources officials. Actions may include creating requests, issuing approvals and authorizations, and finalizing actions. Actions also include returning an action to the originator; asking for more information; or withdrawing, cancelling, or correcting an action. Decisions on these issues are implemented using the Approval Flow component (GVT_WIP_ACTIVITY).

Employees may request only their allowable actions; therefore, a user sees only certain options, such as Family/Benefits Change or Retirement. Supervisors may request, approve, and authorize those and other specific actions. When a supervisor opens the pages, their list reflects whatever your agency designates, such as promotion, demotion, detail assignment, reassignment, bonuses and awards, and others. They may also return an action to the originator for more information, or disapprove a request and render it inactive.

Human resources officials have the authority to initiate, approve, and finalize all possible actions. Therefore, human resources officials, along with hiring, tenure changes, and other actions that an employee or supervisor wouldn't usually initiate, can access all of the personnel actions in any phase of the cycle. For finalized actions that have already completed the processing cycle, human resources has the exclusive right to cancel and correct.

The PAR processes provide both flexibility and modification capacity. You can process new personnel actions that are effective-dated prior to existing personnel actions and define the codes for requests in a truly user-defined environment.