Human Resource (HR) Professional

 

The main objectives for an HR professional role are as follows:

  • Search for any employee, position, organizational unit (OrgUnit) in an organization

  • Perform actions such as assign employee to a position; restructure the OrgUnit; create positions, OrgUnits, and so on.

Note Note

  • An HR professional can launch the Workforce Viewer solution from two different lanes as follows:

    • From the Organization lane

    • From the Search lane

    To launch the Workforce Viewer solution, choose Display Workforce Viewer icon.

  • As part of standard Customizing, HR professional can view both organizational structure and employee reporting line views.

End of the note.

Features

The following features are available for the HR professional role:

  • Navigation

    • Navigation panel

      You can easily navigate to view higher levels in the organizational structure.

    • Drill down

      You can drill down to any level in the organizational structure within the expanded pod.

    • Up and down arrow buttons

      You can move one level up or move one level down in the organizational structure.

    • Pagination

      You can expand the stacked cards to display peer group. You can navigate the peer group using pagination.

  • Search

    You can search and filter for any position or OrgUnit within the expanded pod. You can search using, position name, OrgUnit name, position ID, head of OrgUnit, or OrgUnit ID. SAP provides these fields as a standard delivery in the Customizing. However, you can customize these fields and search based on the newly created fields.

  • Actions

    You can perform the following actions:

    • View additional information about an employee using Quick View button

    • Perform role-based actions using Action Menu button

    • View information based on the type of the card such as number of sub-OrgUnits, positions under an OrgUnit, number of employees assigned to a position.

    The row pod and expanded pod in the Personnel & Organization application supports two pushbuttons – Organizational Units and Positions. You can switch between these two pushbuttons to view only peer OrgUnits or only peer positions.

    You can configure the standard actions in the launchpad (transaction LPD_CUST) using the following role and instance:

    • Launchpad Role: HRPAO

    • Launchpad Instance: ACTIONS

    You can override the actions configured under this launchpad role and instance.

  • Multiple Positions

    You can view scenarios wherein an employee can hold more than one position. The numbered card is used to depict the multiple position scenarios. On expansion of the numbered card, you can view the details of each position on a single card or on the stacked cards.

  • Multiple OrgUnits

    You can view scenarios wherein an employee belongs to more than one OrgUnit. The numbered card is used to depict the multiple OrgUnits scenarios. On expansion of the numbered card, you can view the details of each OrgUnit on a single card or on the stacked cards.

For more information on user interface screen elements, see User Interface Building Blocks.