PS Terms in WD
Maintain Position Accounting
Costing Allocations
Indicates how earnings are allocated for a particular position — position restriction — across various worktags — i.e., cost center, grant, program, project, etc.
Costing Allocations
The building or remote state the position will report to.
Location
Does WD allow multiple employees to occupy the same position?
No. There are no group positions.
NonAcademic positions must be created and allocated before what?
Recruitment.
Position Attributes/ Recruitment Data
Hiring Restriction
Rules and conditions for holding jobs and positions.
Hiring Restriction
An editable text template to outline essential duties, desired qualifications and the working environment for a position. This will not default and will be unique per position.
Job Description
In WD, every SupOrg must have an assigned what?
staffing model
Can multiple identical positions be created?
Yes.
Job Code
Job Profile
A group of job profiles.
Job Family
Examples of this include: cost center, fund, time entry type, etc.
Organization Assignments
What does a job profile define?
The features and characteristics — company-insider type, pay rate type, competencies and proficiencies — of a job or position using that profile.
Can costing allocations be assigned separately to each position created with the position management staffing model?
Yes
Position Number
Position
Defines generic features and characteristics — pay rate type, competencies and proficiencies — of a job or position using that profile. The more defined a job profile is, the more defined those jobs and positions will be by default.
Job Profile
These determine how jobs are defined and filled and provide different levels of control over staffing.
Staffing Models
Is compensation assigned to requisitions or positions?
Requisitions - not positions.
Hiring restrictions limit what?
Hiring restrictions limit the attributes of the employee you put into the position.
Department
Supervisory organization — Sup Org
Consolidates key job information — job family, job profile, worker type, location, full-time vs. part-time, etc. — within a supervisory organization.
Position
This type of organization groups employees into a management hierarchy. (This is the foundation of WD)
Supervisory organization — Sup Org
When is the only time more than one person can hold a position?
During a temporary overlap during a backfill.
What system is the recruitment source for most academic personnel?
APARS Faculty Search is the recruitment source for most academic personnel.