UNIT 2 Structures in Human Capital Management

UNIT 2

Structures in Human Capital Management

A Human Resources Management System enables you to set uporganizational hierarchies and employee relationship and then store administer employee data in the system. You must be able to evaluate and report employee data flexibly and from all enterprise-specific organizational aspects. Every employee is include in the structure of his or her enterprises. Data entry is restricted as the validity of all employee data is checked.

The enterprise structure for personnel administration is determined by the following elements:

·      Client

·      Company Code

·      Personnel Area

·      Personnel Subarea

 A personnel area is assigned to a company code in Personnel Administration. The individual personnel areas in a company code have four-digits alphanumeric identifiers.

The following are the principal functions of the employee group:

1.    Default values can be generated for the payroll accounting area or, for example, basic pay, according to employee group.

2.    The employee group is used as a selection criterion for reporting.

3.    The employee group is one unit of the authorization check.

ll control features of the personnel structure are defined at employee subgroup level. The most important features are described below:

·      The employee subgroup grouping for the Personel Payroll Calculation Rule allows you to define different payroll procedures for different employee subgroups.

·      The employee subgroup grouping for primary wage types on an employee subgroup level, whereas the grouping for collective agreement provisions restrict the validity of pay scale groups to certain employee groups.

·      When entering data, you can define default values using the employee subgroup, for example, for the payroll accounting area.

obs are Important for the following application components:

·      Shift Planning

·      Personnel Cost Planing

·      Personnel Development

 Organization and Staffing you can:

·      Maintain the basic data for your organizational plan

·      Maintain the reporting structure (hierarchy of positions) that exists between the positions in your organizational plan

·      Main cost center assignments

 Help Features

The SAP system provides comprehensive online help. You can display the help from any screen in the system. You can alwasy request help using the help menu or using the relevant icon . The help menu contains the following options :

·      Application Help

·      SAP Library

·      Glossary

·      Release notes

SAP SERVICE Marketplace

·      create Support Message

·      Settings

   Use F1 for help on field, menus, functions, and messages.

The payroll area represents an organization unit used for running payroll. All employee who have payroll run for them at the same period are assingned to the same payroll area.

The number of employees acounted is determined using the organizational assigment infotype (0001), which stores the payroll accounting area.