Create/Edit a New Workflow
Follow these steps to create a new workflow, or to edit a workflow.
To create new workflows:
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- Step 1: Identification
This step is for naming the workflow, selecting the workflow type, and defining the associations that will help match employees to the workflow. - Step 2: Categories
Categories determine which areas are rated in the appraisal. - Step 3: Content
This step is where you further specify the categories chosen in Step 2: Categories. - Step 4: Scale
In this step, you select which scale is associated with the performance workflow, and with each category within the workflow. - Step 5: Phases
This step enables you to configure which performance phase types are included in the workflow. - Step 6: Configuration
Follow these steps to select which actions are available in each phase. - Step 7: Appraisers
This step gives administrators the ability to add other user groups as an appraiser to a performance workflow. - Step 8: Approvals
This step allows administrators to select approval chains and approvers for the performance workflow. - Step 9: Approval Order
This step is necessary if you selected Serial for the Approval Chain Type in Step 8: Approvals. - Step 10: Scheduling
This is an optional step that allows administrators to configure the scheduling of the different phases selected for the workflow. - Step 11: Review
This is the last step in the performance workflow wizard in which you can review all your selections and make changes before finalizing the workflow. - Important Information About Pushing Workflow Edits to Active Appraisals
This topic explains what happens when an administrator chooses to push changes made to a workflow to associated active appraisals, and how standard Talent Management behavior may impact whether appraisal changes are retained when this happens. - Multi-Function Workflow Scenario
If you wanted to create a workflow for an entity called “West Coast Sales” but you had an East Coast salesman that for some reason should be appraised along with West Coast Sales, you can specify that the workflow pertains to the organizational entity and the employee.
Parent Topic: Contents of the Workflows Screen