Core Concepts and Navigation
Organizations
Staffing Models
Configurable Security
BP Framework & Compensation
100

The icon that allows you to view information or perform tasks on a landing page?

What is an Application or Worklet?
100

They group workers into a management hierarchy and are the primary structure within Workday HCM.

What is a Supervisory Organization?

100

This model is the most flexible and has hiring restrictions set at the organization level.

What is Job Management?
100

Groups of users who need to perform actions or access data.

What are Security Groups?

100

The thing that gets the right data to the right person at the right time

What is a business process?

200

Links a security domain and a security group.

What is a Security Policy?

200

A type of organization that is used to record financial transactions, including revenues and expenses.

What is a Cost Center?
200

This allows for the most control and has jobs that can be closed if no longer needed.

What is Position Management?

200

The security group that allows self-service access.

What is Employee as Self?

200

This includes both pending and archived tasks.

What is the Inbox?

300

Defines the characteristics of a job.

What is a Job Profile.

300

These are used for reporting to reflect different organizational roll ups.

?What is an Organizational Hierarchy

300

These define the rules and conditions in a position or job management organization and allow you to limit or restrict who is hired into an organization.

What are Hiring restrictions?

300

This allows you to control what secured items a given user can access when they login to the tenant.

What is Configurable Security?

300

The list of steps (tasks) that comprise the business process and the security groups responsible for completing them.

What is a Business Process Definition?

400

Includes objects such as packages, grades, and plans.

What is a Compensation Package?

400

Can be created as a business site, business asset, campus, instructional, inventory, or work space.

What is a Location?

400

Restrictions apply to every job created within the supervisory organization.

What is a Job Management staffing model?

400

The Workday account logging into the tenant. These represent workers, third parties, or integration system user system accounts.

What are users?
400

This provides pay ranges as references.

What is a Compensation Grade?

500

One or more tasks that accomplishes a business objective.

What is a Business Process?

500

These manage security tasks, access to employees, and involvement in business processes.

What are assignable roles?

500

These are always assigned to a specific supervisory organization regardless of whether they are assigned to specific workers.

What are positions?

500

This security group type enforces a context on members target access. 

What is a Constrained Security Group?

500

The foundation of each position or job.

What is a Job Profile?