Understanding Delegation

Time and Labor uses delegation to enable one person to authorize another to serve as his or her representative when managing time transactions. A manager can delegate their tasks of approving time, entering employee time, or entering their own time to another person due to workload or their own absence from the office.

Delegation Framework

The delegation framework supports the following types of delegation:

• Downward delegation of authority to a direct report or another person lower down in the reporting hierarchy.

• Upward delegation of authority to a manager or another person higher up in the reporting hierarchy.

• Lateral delegation of authority to a peer either within the same division or in a different division within the reporting hierarchy.

Note:

To prevent situations of cascading or circular delegation chains, once the delegation framework passes delegated authority over a transaction to a proxy, the proxy cannot delegate authority over that transaction to another user. The delegation framework only passes authority over transactions from initial delegator to initial proxy.

Delivered Delegation Set Up for Time and Labor

The delegation framework for Time and Labor is delivered with the system. To review this framework:

1. Review delegation transactions for workflow on the Register Workflow Transaction page.

2. Review delegation permission lists and roles through PeopleTools Security components.

3. Define installation settings for delegation on the Delegation Installation Settings page.

4. Review transactions for delegation on the Configure Delegation Transaction page.