Implementing Global HR: From Enterprise Model to Live Workforce · Module 6 · Jobs and Positions
Creating positions
Lesson 63 of 175 · 13 min
Create a position from a job and watch the attributes default. Set headcount, FTE, department, location and grade. Set the parent position. Create a position profile, associate action reasons with a role, and create a shared position with headcount above one. Then look at effective-dated position changes and the incumbent view. Attribute defaulting from the job is what makes positions maintainable. Configure the job well and the position is three fields; configure it badly and every position is twenty. That is the visible payoff for the catalogue lesson. Headcount versus FTE: a position with headcount 2 and FTE 1.5 is two part-time seats. Clients need this explained, usually twice. And every position needs a parent, or the hierarchy has orphans — which is one of the failures later in this module, and it is silent.
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In this module: Module 6 · Jobs and Positions
- 1The decision that shapes everythingFree preview
- 2Jobs and job catalogue design
- 3Job and position structures
- 4Creating jobs
- 5Positions: what they add
- 6Creating positions
- 7FTE, work hours and workday defaults
- 8Position synchronization
- 9Configuring position synchronization
- 10Position hierarchies
- 11Evaluation criteria and valid grades
- 12Position approvals
- 13Loading workforce structures by spreadsheet
- 14What breaks
- 15Lab briefing: one model, or two?