A personnel area is an organizational entity representing an area within an enterprise defined by specific aspects of personnel administration, time management and payroll.
2) What are personnel sub areas and its functions?
Personnel sub areas are sub divisions of personnel area. The strategies for designing of personnel subareas is to represent a categorization of the position units in the organization. It also helps to define the type of employees or persons to be hired
3) How is an employee in the HR Master data linked to a company to which he belongs?
An employee is an personnel area and personnel sub area. These are assigned to a Company code and country grouping.
4) Can a personnel area be assigned to many company codes?
A personnel area / personnel sub area combination can be assigned to one company and one country grouping. Thus a personnel are may be linked to one or more company codes. Country code determines currency for the employee. Company code determines the organizational structure that the employee belongs to. It provides the links to FI/CO and for functions/processes like payroll posting, costing. When you assign a person to a personnel area/sub area, you also need to assign to a position in an Org unit. To do this the MP000100 goes to the Financial module to check if FI is implemented.
5) How do you categorize the employee groups?
Employee groups are just ways of categorizing employees such as 'Active', 'Retired', 'Intern', 'Inactive', 'Temporary', etc. however a company may define it.
6) What are employee subgroups and what are the indicators set up using employee subgroups?
Employee subgroups are used to break down the Employee Groups such as someone who is in the 'Active' group could be considered several different types of employees within the organization. The subgroups can be defined how a company sees fit be it different types of 'Hourly' and 'Salary' groups or defined by administrative position or task.
7) Employee groups are two character and employee subgroup are two character representations in the IMG. Do you support this statement?
Employee group is one character i.e. 1 active , Employee sub group is division of employee group two characteristics i.e. 02- salaried employee....
No, Employee Groups are single alphanumeric characters while Subgroups are two character.
8) In the HR Master data where are planned working times for an employee seen?
In transaction 'PA20' or 'PA30', Planned working time (infotype 0007) can be found under the contract data tab. Or give the infotype as 7 in the infotype field in PA20 or PA30 click on Display button on top.
9) Do I need to give country assignment to personnel sub areas in customizing? If true support the statement and if not what’s true?
False. See answer to Q 4 above.
10) What are the various objects in an organizational plan?. How does any company use an organizational plan?
An organizational plan is a hierarchical overview of the organization and is comprised of Org Units (O), Positions (S), Jobs (C), Persons (P), Cost Centers (K), Tasks, and Users.
11) Describe the following
1. Tasks - a specific function or activity that can belong
to another
2. Job - Description of activity performed by the employee
3. Position - occupied by an employee in the company
, it is company specific
4. Organizational unit - describes various units of the
company it depends on tasks and functions
5. Cost Center - cost center can be related to organizational
unit and position.
12) Which of the above objects belong to HR?
All of them are utilized in HR.
13) How do you integrate OM and PA? If integration is active what happens when a position is entered in IT 0000.? What else does the system default? Can these values be changed? What is this called?
The integration switch PLOGI - ORGA must be set (value X) in the table T77S0 to enable the integration between OM and PA. If the integration is active, on entering the position in IT 0000, the system populates the org unit, cost center, job, company code, business area, payroll area etc. by default in IT0001.
14) Are cost center assignments hierarchical? Where do you assign these in OM?
Yes. Cost center assignment is inherited from the hierarchy above. Cost center can be assigned to an organizational unit or a position.
