Manager

 

The main objectives of the manager role are as follows:

  • Search for reporting employees within an expanded pod

  • View details of the reporting employees

  • Perform actions on the reporting employees or selected multiple employees.

Note Note

  • The manager can launch the solution from the My Team lane under MSS application.

  • As part of standard Customizing, manger can switch between employee reporting line and organizational structure views, that is, the managers can view relationships between employees and relationships between organizational unit, position, and employee.

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Features

The following features are available for the manager role:

  • Drill Down

    You can drill down to any level in the organizational structure within the expanded pod. You can navigate within the canvas and move one level up or move one level down in the organizational structure. The managers can drill down in two ways as follows:

    • Choose the Number of Reporting Employees button

    • Click the card.

  • Search

    You can search and filter for an employee within the expanded pod. To search for employees under other managers, the manager has to drill down first and then search for the required employee.

  • Actions

    You can view profiles (Talent Profile, Compensation Profile) and perform actions on multiple employees within the expanded pod. The two sets of actions configured in launchpad are as follows:

    • Single employee

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

      • Launchpad Role: MSS

      • Launchpad Instance: EMPLOYEE_MENU,POSITION_MENU,ORGANIZATION_MENU

    • Multiple employees

      As part of standard SAP delivery, three Web Dynpro applications are provided as follows:

      • Compare Profiles

      • Start Special Payment

      • Start Address Change

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

      Launchpad Role: MSS

      Launchpad Instance: NAV_UI5

Note Note

Actions for multiple selection is available only for employee reporting line view.

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