Objective Setting and Appraisals 

Purpose

This component supports you when you perform user-defined appraisal processes that assure appraisals are performed in a formalized and standardized manner.

You can perform the typical phases of an appraisal process such as a planning phase, a review phase, and the actual appraisal phase. In addition, integration with SAP Business Warehouse enables you to run various reports to evaluate appraisals.

Customizing settings allow you to depict different appraisals in the system such as performance appraisals and potential assessments, 360° appraisals, objective setting agreements, references, and checklists. Furthermore, you can use workflows to support the appraisal process.

The component enables you to create re-useable appraisal templates in the Appraisal Catalog. You can use these templates to create general appraisal documents centrally or to create appraisal documents for specific individuals. You can include objective setting agreements manually or automatically via integration with other mySAP components in these appraisal documents.

As part of follow-up processing for appraisal documents, you can transfer information to other application components automatically, for example, you can transfer qualifications to Personnel Development or valuation results to Compensation Management.

Integration

You can integrate mySAP Objective Setting and Appraisals with the following mySAP solutions:

·         mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management
If you have integrated your SAP system with the mySAP Strategic Enterprise Management (SEM) component, you can display departmental objectives that are derived from higher-level enterprise objectives in the Balanced Scorecard. You can also transfer the relevant strategic objectives directly into the objective setting agreeements for an employee.

·         mySAP Compensation Management
If your system is integrated with the mySAP Compensation Management component, you can transfer proposals for a compensation adjustment automatically as soon as the feedback cycle has been completed. You can determine the proposals separately for the overall appraisal, for specific objective groupings or for individual objectives.

·         mySAP Personnel Development
Integration with the mySAP Personnel Development component enables you to transfer requirements profiles from positions, or qualifications from the qualifications catalog, to your employee’s individual objective setting agreement directly.

·         SAP Business Information Warehouse
Integration with the SAP Business Information Warehouse component enables you to track the status of appraisals, perform average calculations, and compare the appraisal documents.