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Object documentationPotential (Infotype 7408)

 

Infotype in which the system stores information about a talent's potential assessment.

 

The manager of an employee can evaluate the employee's potential (see Performance Values and Potential Values: Manager Assessment). In a talent review meeting, the participants can confirm this potential evaluation, or classify the employee differently with regard to his or her potential (see Performance Values and Potential Values in the Talent Review Meeting).

In the background, the system creates records of the infotype Potential and stores the ID of the employee's central person (object type CP) in the record. This means that the system creates the infotype records as a result of the following activities:

  • The employee's manager evaluates the potential using a talent assessment document and closes this document.

  • The employee's manager evaluates the potential using an appraisal document that is based on a flexible appraisal process and sets the document to the status In Talent Review Meeting.

  • The employee's potential is evaluated in a talent review meeting.

Structure

The infotype Potential has the time constraint 3, meaning that any number of valid infotype records can exist at any time. For more information, see Time Constraints in HR Master Data.

The infotype Potential consists of the following parts:

Field Part

This part of the infotype contains information on an employee's potential; the information can come from the following sources:

  • Talent assessment document

  • Appraisal document that is based on a flexible appraisal process

  • Talent review meeting

In the field part, the system stores the following data:

  • Validity period of the infotype

    The system uses the validity period of the document that the manager used to assess the potential as the validity period for the infotype. For more information, see Performance Values and Potential Values: Manager Assessment.

    If a deviating potential assessment is made for the same employee in a talent review meeting, the system creates a new infotype record for which the validity period matches that of the existing infotype record.

  • Change date of infotype

  • Status of potential value

    For more information, see Status Handling in Talent Management.

  • Potential value

    If multiple potential assessments exist for an employee in an appraisal period, the system calculates the arithmetic average of these values.

  • Scale that was used to make the assessment

  • Maximum potential value within this scale

  • If applicable: ID of the talent review meeting in which the potential value was specified

  • If applicable: level of the talent review meeting in which the potential value was specified

    If an employee is discussed in more than one talent review meeting, the potential assessment that was made in the talent review meeting at the highest hierarchy level is decisive. For more information, see Determination of the Valid Performance and Potential Value.

Table Part

This part of the infotype contains information that comes from appraisal documents that are based on flexible appraisal processes. If multiple potential assessments exist for the same employee in an appraisal period, the system stores the assessments made by all managers in the table part.

In the table part, the system stores the following data:

  • Appraisal ID

  • Potential value

  • Maximum potential value in the scale used

More Information

See Performance Values and Potential Values in Talent Management.