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Vista’s employee surveys feature makes it simple to poll your employee base about any topic, including their exposure to COVID-19. This article shows how to create a COVID-19 survey that your employees can fill out in Vista self-service. Required Security Access You’ll need semi-administrative security access to create a survey in Vista including the ability…
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In the last article we talked about modeling your actual business practices, not your hoped-for business practices. As part of that, we reviewed the situation with a real organization who tried to model their desired leave request process instead of their actual one. Their expected process was that all leave requests required manager approval before…
Read More Workflow Best Practices: Use Late Notifications, Auto-Redirecting, and Auto-Rerouting
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The first step in creating workflow templates for your various HCM activities is to model those processes. The Vista Workflow engine supports just about any variations in business flows, so you can model just about whatever you want. One trap people fall into is modeling what they think ought to be, instead of what actually…
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By default, the information submitted on a Vista workflow screen is both visible and editable (with the standard workflow audit trail) by subsequent workflow participants (e.g., approvers). That might be appropriate in some situations, but not all. For example, you might want a manager to be able to approve or reject something, but not to…
Read More Workflow Best Practices: Trim the Approval Screen Display
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In the last article, we discussed running the Issue Detective so that it can alert you to workflow templates that might cause approvals to land on in the queue of someone who is no longer there. However, somebody might be terminated (or transferred) while existing flow approvals are in progress. If one of these is…
Read More Workflow Best Practices: Remove Terminated Employees from Workflows
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We could repeat this best practice for virtually every part of Vista. The Issue Detective exists, not because bad data originally got into the system, but because time and events can make data bad or suspect. Running the Issue Detective on a regular basis ensures that your Vista HCM system is running smoothly without hidden…
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You’re successfully using manager and employee self-service with Vista Workflow for key business processes, such as performance reviews and requesting time off. Everything is running smoothly until you encounter these two scenarios: Managers (approvers) are not always available when approval requests come their way. They might be on vacation, sick, or otherwise indisposed. Some senior…
Read More Workflow Best Practices: Using Proxies
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In the rest of this series, the HCM challenges we discussed center around managing technology and creating a better employee experience. This article focuses on the challenge of supporting the C-suite and being considered a strategic asset to the organization. As we all know, our organizations would be nothing without our employees. No matter how…
Read More HCM Challenges in 2020: Empower Your C-Suite with Insightful Data
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When you think about team building you may wonder what an HCM solution has to do with it. Most of us think about those team building activities we set up for our employees to help them get to know each other better, such as sporting events, office competitions, escape rooms, go-kart racing, or volunteering, to…
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As mentioned in the first two articles in this series, attracting and retaining talent is the top challenge for most organizations. As our workforces become more diverse, inclusion initiatives have become essential components of recruitment and retention strategies for organizations, and therefore, a challenge that HCM solutions must help to address. According to SHRM, there…
Read More HCM Challenges in 2020: Driving Diversity and Inclusion with Valuable Data
