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About Human Resources
The people who work for your company, it's human capital, are it's most important asset. Selecting a software platform that increases the value of your companies human capital and delivers benefits, services and opportunities to your workforce, is critical to your companies success
That platform must be able to accurately and reliability process worker transactions, collect decision support information, and communicate between management, workers and outside resources. The OFBiz Human Resource application (HR App) can provide a backbone for building that platform.
In this chapter you are introduced to the organization of this document and to the key business objects that are the core to HR Application.
Chapter numbers are used here to refer to parts of the document. Chapters numbers are not displayed in the on line help version of the document. Hopefully this will not be to confusing to the online reader.
Chapter 1 is this introduction chapter. It lays out the purpose of the remaining chapters and introduces some of the core HR App features.
Chapter 2 has instructions to get you started using HR App. A list, in logical order, describes some activities you can preform to get up and running.
Chapters 3 thru 15 of provide the help documents that can be invoked from the HR App in a context sensitive manner. When you work in any of the HR App screens you can click on the Help icon in the menu bar and the help browser will open to the relevant page in the document.
Each feature in the HR App Menu has in it's own chapter, screens within the feature are sections within the chapter. Introductions to the chapters describe how the screens work together to implement an important application feature. Each screen is pictured and documented consistently with:
A picture of the screen.
Breadcrumbs to show where to find the screen.
A brief description of the screen usage.
A list of fields in the screen.
A list of actions that can be performed from the screen.
Chapter 16 discuses OFBiz security settings for HR App
Chapter 17 HR App Intra-Application Integration covers usage scenarios for other OFBiz applications. The HR Application is part of the larger OFBiz back office set of administrative applications and is often dependent on these other applications.
Important terms in the documentation are defined in a Glossary. In order to promote a consistent usage and understanding of terms, links to the Glossary definitions are placed throughout the document.
Notes in the document describe behavior that is not intuitive. Links between document sections are used liberally tie together concepts that cross chapter boundaries. For example screens that use information managed in Global HR Settings are linked to the screens where they are used.
Introduction to the HR Application
The HR Application data design, like most of the OFBiz back office administration applications, was inspired by the data models in The Data Model Resource Books by Len Silverston (see Silverston Data Model Resource Companion Site.) The sections below introduces some of the concepts in HR App that were derived from the models.
Generally positions are authorized by a budget and fulfilled by people. The person may be a company employee, or contract employee. Positions may be salary or hourly, fulltime or part time. Positions have responsibilities.
Positions are defined by a type of work.
For example there may be 20 positions in an organization for a type secretary. Each position is authorized by a budget request from a department in the organization. A position can me thought of as a full-time equivalent employee (FTE). So an FTE may be assigned to one or more positions and position can be assigned to more then one FTEs (job sharing).
In the HR App you can:
Create positions
Fulfill positions
Define the responsibilities of a position
Define a tree reporting structure between positions
Track the positions fulfillments over time
People may be employees of your Company, a company you do business with, or unaffiliated contract employees. Any of these people may be applicants for and assigned to positions in your Company.
If OFBiz a personis a type of party. One of the strengths of OFBiz is the rich set of features it has build up to manage information and relationships for parties. This makes OFBiz a great platform for HR services because managing people and organizations is a core OFBiz technology.
In the HR Application you can:
View employee profiles
Manage recruitment
Create employees
Track an employees performance, positions, skills, qualifications, training, and leave
See: Employees