Options for Item Processing in a Performance Template Section

When you enable content items for a section, you specify the rating type, item calculation, and properties.

You configure item processing on a section using the Performance Template Sections task in the Setup Maintenance work area.

Rating Type

Rating types determine the rating models that are available for workers and managers to use to select the content item ratings in the performance document and to calculate the item ratings.

Let's look at the available rating types for Profile Content sections:

Proficiency: Workers and managers can select the proficiency level for items on the performance document.
Performance: Workers and managers can select the performance rating on the performance document.
Proficiency and performance: Workers and managers can select both a proficiency level and a performance rating on the performance document.

For the Performance Goals and Development Goals sections, only the Performance rating type is available.

When you select either Performance or Proficiency and performance rating types, you can use the same rating model for content items that the section uses, or select another. You can also select different performance rating models for individual content items. This enables your organization to rate some performance goals that may be specific to a department using a different rating model than that used for organization-wide goals, for example.

Check out the proficiency levels in the Oracle Fusion Profile Management when the performance document is completed. Performance ratings for competencies and goals aren't published to Profile Management.

Item Calculation

The item calculation method determines how the item is rated.

When the rating type is Proficiency and performance, you can select:

Proficiency: Proficiency ratings calculate the score for a specific item.
Performance: Performance ratings calculate the score for a specific item.
Proficiency multiplied by performance: The application multiples the proficiency point value by the performance point value to calculate the score for a specific item.

You can't change the default values for the item calculation method if the rating type is either Proficiency or Performance.

Properties

Select the attributes you want to make available for items.

The effects of selecting the properties are shown in the table.

Property	Effect
Target Proficiency Level	Target proficiency levels appear for the items in the performance document. The target proficiency level that appears is the minimum proficiency level for the competency set in the profile type used to populate the performance document. For example, you select job profile as the profile type used by the section. The target proficiency levels in the performance document is the minimum proficiency level for the competencies belonging to the worker's job profile.
Target Performance Rating	You can select target performance ratings for the items you add to the section or the performance template. In the performance document, workers can select target performance ratings for items they add to the document. Managers can select target performance ratings for items that they, or the workers, add.
Weight	You can enter weights for items in the section and the performance template to determine the relative importance of the items within the section. In the performance document, managers and workers can change weights for: Items they add to the document Performance goals added from the goal management business process Development goals added from the career development business process When using calculated ratings, the weights are used only when you select the Average calculation rule for the section.
Minimum Weight	You can enter minimum weights for items in the performance template. You can't enter minimum weights into the performance document. The minimum weights you enter for competencies and performance or the development goals you add in performance template display in the performance document. The minimum weights you enter for competencies in model profiles which are used to populate the performance document also display.
Required	In the performance template section or the performance template, select the Required check box to prevent workers and managers from editing or deleting the item in the performance template from the performance document.