Glossary of Terms

Designated participants in a business process, with a defined responsibility in this type of event, indicate they approve the proposed action. (The business process can proceed to the next step.)

An intersection security group is one whose members are other security groups. Workers associated with all included security groups are granted access through an intersection security group.

When you set up sales items, you assign a revenue category. It is a classification in customer contracts and billing that provides a logical grouping to search and report on items and services you sell. It can also be used to drive different accounting behavior as it is a dimension in account posting rule types used in customer contracts, billing, and accounts receivable.

Job classifications are required for many kinds of job-related regulatory reporting and can be used to categorize job profiles. A job classification group is the means by which you group and maintain individual job classifications.

An off-cycle calculation that records check or cash payments made outside Workday Payroll.

Predefined groups of logically related fields, used when creating reports with Report Writer, which define the data in the report row. For example, the report data source “Employees” contains contact information, personal data, and identification information. Report data sources also include which roles have access to see the report data.

A sequence of one or more tasks related to defining, targeting, and awarding a bonus to employees. In this process, a compensation administrator creates the bonus plan definition. The administrator or manager assigns the bonus plan to employees through one of various means. Assignment of the plan determines eligibility for the bonus event. The administrator sets up the bonus process, which funds the bonus pool, and then launches the process on the specified event date. Workday creates bonus events for employees based on their organization. Managers review the target bonus for their employees and submit bonus proposals for review. Once approved, the employees receive their bonus.

Defines the accrual frequency for a time off plan, such as annual or monthly (unless the plan has a custom frequency), and the start and end date of each reporting period. The period controls reporting of both accruals and time off requests.

Codes assigned to workers to capture information for quarterly state tax filing or new hire reporting. For example, unit codes for Minnesota or branch codes for California.

Online or printed summary of an employee's gross-to-net earnings. Also referred to as a pay stub.

View is the ability to see objects or data through the Workday user interface, when permitted in a domain security policy.

A functional or technical ability that is needed to perform a job. In Workday, you can associate competencies with job families, management levels, job profiles, and positions.

A characteristic of a job profile that categorizes the amount of time required for the job or position, such as full time or part time. In Workday, the time type is specified in the Create Position, Create Headcount, or Set Hiring Restrictions tasks. The value defaults to the value defined on the job profile by the manager, HR Partner, or other authorized role.

A time entry method that copies time blocks from a worker's schedule or from a previous week onto the current week on the time entry calendar.

An independent contingent worker (ICW) not represented by a supplier, and accounted for as a 1099 supplier. You issue purchase orders to, create receipts for, and pay ICWs just as you do suppliers.

A group of related integration attributes, maps, and XSLT that provides a framework to transform Workday data into the format required by an external system.

You can assign positions to organization roles. Depending on your staffing model, a position may or may not necessarily have a worker specified.

An initiation step is the first step of a business process.

A group of items to be paid (such as supplier invoices and expense reports), and payments (paychecks and ad hoc supplier payments) that is treated as one unit when selecting and settling payments.

A grouping of job profiles, which in turn may be assigned to a job family group, so you can organize job profiles according to how your organization works.

A worker with a status of Terminated or On Leave for payroll processing purposes. A run category can define rules for processing nonactive workers.

Rescinding a business process operates on completed business processes. It completely reverses all changes made to Workday data. It is also a securable action in a business process security policy.

A worker's work location. This value influences many processes, including compensation and staffing.

One of the three staffing models available to use in your organization. It provides the tightest control over hiring, as you can specify different staffing rules and restrictions for each position.

Used in job requisitions to define rules and conditions for holding positions in a supervisory organization using position management as its staffing model. Position requirements enable you to: • Limit staffing to specific job families and job profiles. • Restrict the business sites where a position can be filled. • Define the required qualifications, experience, and skill levels of workers hired into a position. • Limit staffing for a position to a specific worker type (employees or contingent workers). • Limit staffing for a position to a specific time type (full or part-time workers).

See pay component related calculation.

Workday provides a special Workfeed worklet modeled on the idea of an activity stream (like activity streams in Facebook and Twitter and many other modern applications). The Workfeed presents an actionable view of content items of interest to you, arranged chronologically. This enables you to see and act on pertinent tasks and content items, from a combination of sources, all presented in a simple time-line view. The Workfeed should be configured as a required worklet on the My Workday 2.0 landing page.

A worker who is not an employee. You can use contingent worker types, such as contractor or consultant, to categorize and track contingent workers in your organization.

A French word meaning a portion or slice of a bonus distributed to an employee over several payments.

Result of applying time calculations to a worker's reported time. Automates application of company or regulatory rules.