PS Terms in WD
WD Terms from Definitions
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Maintain Position Accounting 

Costing Allocations

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Indicates how earnings are allocated for a particular position — position restriction — across various worktags — i.e., cost center, grant, program, project, etc.

Costing Allocations

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The building or remote state the position will report to.

Location

100

Does WD allow multiple employees to occupy the same position?

No.  There are no group positions.

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NonAcademic positions must be created and allocated before what?

Recruitment.

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Position Attributes/ Recruitment Data

Hiring Restriction

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Rules and conditions for holding jobs and positions.

Hiring Restriction

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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

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In WD, every SupOrg must have an assigned what?

staffing model

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Can multiple identical positions be created?

Yes.

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Job Code

Job Profile

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A group of job profiles.

Job Family

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Examples of this include:  cost center, fund, time entry type, etc.

Organization Assignments

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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.

300

Can costing allocations be assigned separately to each position created with the position management staffing model?

Yes

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Position Number

Position

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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

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These determine how jobs are defined and filled and provide different levels of control over staffing.

Staffing Models

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Is compensation assigned to requisitions or positions?

Requisitions - not positions.

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Hiring restrictions limit what?

Hiring restrictions limit the attributes of the employee you put into the position.

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Department

Supervisory organization — Sup Org

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Consolidates key job information — job family, job profile, worker type, location, full-time vs. part-time, etc. — within a supervisory organization.

Position

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This type of organization groups employees into a management hierarchy.  (This is the foundation of WD)

Supervisory organization — Sup Org

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When is the only time more than one person can hold a position?

During a temporary overlap during a backfill.

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What system is the recruitment source for most academic personnel?

APARS Faculty Search is the recruitment source for most academic personnel.