Unit 12: Human Capital Management

Front 1

List the 4 organizational elements used by human capital management

Back 1

- Client
- Company code
- Personnel area
- Personnel subarea

Front 2

List 3 functions of the personnel area

Back 2

- Facilitates data entry
- Facilitates reporting
- Check authorization

Front 3

List 6 functions of the personnel subarea

Back 3

- Specify the country grouping
- To assign a legal person (i.e. company)
- To set up time management groupings
- Default pay scale
- Public holiday calendars
- Subarea-specific wage types

Front 4

List and describe the 3 elements of the personnel structure

Back 4

- Employee groups, e.g. active, retirees, contractors
- Employee subgroup. Defines payroll procedures, e.g. hourly, salaried
- Payroll area. Payroll frequency

Front 5

What 2 hierarchies are stored in the organizational plan?

Back 5

- Hierarchy between organizational units
- Hierarchy between positions (chain of command)

Front 6

Jobs are used by 3 application components. What are they?

Back 6

- Shift planning
- Personnel cost planning
- Personnel development

Front 7

What is the difference between jobs, persons, and positions?

Back 7

- Jobs are general classifications, e.g. "buyer" or "manager"
- A person is an employee.
- A position is a mapping of job to person, i.e. a job that is occupied by a person.

Jobs may be only partially occupied, occupied by more than one person, etc.

Front 8

List a position's 5 relationships with other organizational elements

Back 8

- Is assigned to an enterprise structure
- Is described by a job
- Belongs to an organizational unit
- Is assigned to a cost center
- Is assigned to a personnel structure

Front 9

In human resources, data fields are grouped together into informational units called _____.

Back 9

infotypes

Front 10

List the 3 methods for updating infotypes

Back 10

- Single screen. Maintain a single infotype)
- Personnel action. Perform a complex maintenance task via a wizard.
- Fast entry. Update infotypes for multiple personnel simultaneously.

Front 11

The _____ lists all of the infotypes for which records have been created for a given personnel number

Back 11

personnel file

Front 12

After you save the Personal Data infotype, the system automatically displays the _____ infotype.

Back 12

Organizational Assignment

Front 13

List 6 fields in an organizational assignment

Back 13

- Company code
- Personnel area
- Personnel subarea
- Business area
- Employee group
- Employee subgroup

Front 14

List 9 human capital management processes

Back 14

- Hiring
- Course credit
- Training and development
- Managing work time
- Compensation and benefits
- Payroll administration
- Travel planning
- Cost planning and reporting
- Recruitment

Front 15

In HR, you can group qualifying actions (such as training courses or job rotation) into _____.

Back 15

development plans

Front 16

In HR, all qualifications and requirements are stored centrally in a _____.

Back 16

catalog

Front 17

If Personnel Development is integrated with Training and Event Management, you can generate _____.

Back 17

training proposals

Front 18

List and explain the 4 Training and Event Management processes

Back 18

1. Business event preparation. Prep the system for the business event catalog.
2. Create business event catalog.
3. Day-to-day activities. Book and cancel attendees.
4. Recurring activities. Booking and canceling events.

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Front 19

List the 2 goals of Career and Succession Planning

Back 19

- encourage professional development
- ensure sufficient headcount

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Front 20

List the 3 phases of continuous performance feedback (HR)

Back 20

1. Planning
2. Reviews
3. Appraisal

Front 21

List 5 options for recording working time

Back 21

- Time Manager's workplace
- a central time sheet
- online menus
- time recording systems
- employee self-service (ESS)

Front 22

Working time can be used for activity allocation in _____.

Back 22

Controlling

Front 23

In Logistics, information from Time Management is used for _____.

Back 23

capacity requirements planning

Front 24

List 5 types of time data (Time Management)

Back 24

- Work schedule
- Attendances (seminars, business trips)
- Absences (leave, illness)
- Substitutions (changes to planned working time)
- Availability (in addition to planned working time)

Front 25

CATS stands for _____.

Back 25

Cross-Application Time Sheet

Front 26

List the 4 steps of the CATS business process

Back 26

1. Record times
2. Release times
3. Approve times
4. Follow-on processes

Front 27

List the 4 areas of compensation management

Back 27

- job pricing
- budgeting
- compensation administration
- long-term incentives

Front 28

List 5 types of long-term incentives supported by the Compensation Management component

Back 28

- Incentive stock options
- Nonqualified stock options
- Performance shares
- Performance units
- Restricted stock

Front 29

Vis-a-vis long term incentives, _____ are reasons to change subscribed options.

Back 29

change events

Front 30

Vis-a-vis long term incentives, _____ usually change the vesting schedule

Back 30

life events

Front 31

List the 6 international plan categories defined in the Benefits system

Back 31

- health
- insurance
- savings
- stock purchase
- credit
- miscellaneous

Front 32

List 2 uses for data generated by Personnel Cost Planning and Simulation

Back 32

- generate salary budgets
- generate training budgets

Front 33

List 3 activities subsequent to payroll accounting

Back 33

- transfer of payroll to FI
- evaluations
- transfer of payments to third parties, including taxes

Front 34

List 7 renumeration elements

Back 34

- Basic pay
- Gratuities
- Illness
- Bonuses
- Leave
- Overtime
- Shift work bonuses

Front 35

Changes to _____ and _____ infotypes during a payroll run are not allowed

Back 35

- master data
- time data

Front 36

List the 5 functions in the payroll function menu

Back 36

1. Release payroll
2. Start payroll
3. Check results
4. Corrections (if necessary)
5. Exit payroll

Front 37

In Travel Management, list $ outputs of trip planning and settlement

Back 37

- statement for the employee
- FI/CO
- HR payroll (reimbursements)
- Data exchange with crediting institutions

Front 38

In HR, you can simulate the effect of certain planning assumptions with a personnel _____.

Back 38

cost planning run

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Front 39

List 8 Employee Self-Service (ESS) components

Back 39

- Office
- Time management
- Payment
- Benefits
- Personal information
- Training and event management
- Qualifications
- Appraisals

Front 40

List and describe 9 other SAP application components that integrate with Training and Event Management

Back 40

- Sales and distribution. Billing of attendance fees.
- Material management. Use of materials during business events
- Personnel development. Qualifications and appraisals
- Time management. Recording and checking attendance
- Organizational management. Use organizational units as attendees or organizers of events
- Personnel administration. use of _persons_ from HR master data as attendees/instructors
- Appointment calendar. Auto-generate calendar items for events
- SAP knowledge warehouse. Display of training material
- Cost accounting. Posting event cost