Supervisory Organization Hierarchy Used to group workers into a management hierarchy
Supervisory, Cost Centers, Matrix, Location Hierarchy, and
Organization Types
Custom Organizations
Allow you to assign managers to workers temporarily
Example of a matrix organization is project teams
¡Each project may be assigned a project manager who will
act as a temporary manager over workers until the project
Matrix has been completed
¡These matrix organizations can group workers together
without changing their supervisory organization manag-
er
Workers and managers associated in a matrix organiza-
tion are represented in a hierarchy with a dotted line
Used to group cost center into a management hierarchy
Cost Center Hierarchy
Cost centers can be location, department or groups
Used to group locations into a region hierarchy
Location Hierarchy
Locations can be a city, state, region, country, etc
Helps define and implement business processes to suit
the way your company works
Business Process
you choose the tasks that compose a business process and
what order they must be completed
created using a combination of actions, approvals, ap-
Business Process Components
proval chains, to dos, and checklists
Can be a single task, or it can be a sub-process that
Action
triggers a list of multiple tasks
, Approval An approval of a task or event
A reminder to complete a task, either within Workday or
To do
outside the system
Condition rules Control whether a step will be activated
Notifications Can be sent in Workday or to an email address
Workday delivers pre-configured default business process
definitions
Although you cannot create your own business process,
you can edit existing processes and control access through
configurable security
Can also copy a definition, and modify it to meet the needs
BP configuration options
of a particular organization, if needed
The Business Process Configuration Options report details
all available actions for a business process and which
approval actions and sub-processes are allowed
Details the save options, restrictions, prerequisites, and
more
Designate permissions for security groups to view or view
and modify tasks within the security policy
Security Group
made up of a collection of Workday users, are added
to these domain and business process policies, allowing
them access to certain (or relevant) areas of the system
Security policies for domains and business process are
Configurable Security grouped into more than 50 functional areas
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