SF HXM EPI-Friday Quiz

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SF HXM EPI-Friday Quiz

Welcome to the SF HXM EPI-Friday Quiz, designed to test your knowledge of HR modules that can assist companies in streamlining their processes. This quiz covers various scenarios, focusing on how different modules can address common challenges faced by organizations.

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Company ABC has lost over R465 000 since 2018 due to unscheduled absenteeism and have found that the common reasons for this have been:

Illness or injury
Disengagement and low workplace morale
Bullying
Time theft – coming in late and leaving early

Which module/s could possibly assist the company with these issues?

ABC Limited has been over-budget on their spending on recruiting. They are spending an average of 52 days searching for candidates to fill positions. Their current issues include:

Job requisitions not being raised in time or at all as positions have not been created or budgetted for.
Difficuilty with self service functions for employees leaving the company or looking to apply for new jobs within the company.

In addition to fixing this, they would also like to create an environment that allows Recruiters to:

Stockpile cv’s for when positons become vacant.
Allow internal employees the freedom to apply for positions.
Have emergency replacement in place for critical positions.
Be able to refer back to people who previously applied or have our employees refer people.

Which module/s would you advise?

People with different backgrounds and experiences think differently, and bring different values to the table that help companies do a better job of coming up with ideas, solving problems, creating products, and driving overall success. Despite these benefits, ABC Limited, has struggled to attract diverse candidates, and as part of the first phase they would like to:

Train their managers on the importance of viewing inclusivity and diversity as a core competency, and assessing and hold them accountable to these standards.
Form a group of managers and other leaders who meet regularly to set goals for hiring, retaining, and promoting a diverse workforce, and who address any engagement barriers among underrepresented employees.

Which modules would work in this environment?

Learning Management

Performance and Goals

Job Profile Builder

Employee Central

ABC Limited is dealing with a dilemma relating to difficult employees, and the below are some of the processes they follow which they would like to automate.

For difficult employees with low level productivity - the need to take them through a performance improvement plan process. If the employee fails to improve, they would then be released from the company.
For difficult employees who make key contributions to the company, they need to challenge them and keep them from leaving, through opportunities for promotion, training and development, mentorship, and setting individualized goals for them.

Which module/s would you suggest as possible ways to resolve the issue:

During a workshop, your customer explains that they currently have a checklist that they complete once a new employee arrives. On arrival, the HR is responsible for ensuring, as the employee typically arrives much later than the anticipated start date:

the hire signs their employment contract,
They are provided all the paperwork and benefit scheme information applicable to them
The correct training ias allocated to them based on field of work
Get sizes and type of protective gear required
Ensure they acknowledge the company policies applicable. They further add that there is no time to waste as the people should have started working yesterday already.

What issue/s are you picking up from the statement by the customer:

Company ABC is experiencing a lot of disputes where employees feel compensation bonuses are unfairly allocated as employees hold the same job titles and should therefore be paid the same amount. However HR argues that the job functions are not the same. How can this company go about solving this issue?

Job Profile Builder

Performance and Goals

Continuous Performance

Company ABC follows a pay for performance approach in their organization and below are some of the many issues they are experiencing:

No clear relationship between performance and pay as demonstrated through incentive programs.
Negativity from employees in regards to the salary and benefits they receive, and struggles gathering all round feedback on these issues.
No clear relationship between performance and pay as demonstrated through incentive programs.
No bonus criteria to guide employee performance.

Which modules would you advise for such a client:

Compensation

Performance and Goals

Employee Central Payroll

Continuous Performance

During a workshop for compensation, you realise that the customer’s bonus calculations are dependent on more than just performance, but they require:

Bonus payout rules based on company and business unit.
Employees can be assigned to more than one bonus plan at a time.
Bonuses are evaluated in different ways, which could be quarterly, monthly.
Team/business goals can be weighted to defined compensation rules.

Which module would you suggest as an add on to compensation?

You are working together with AMS as a SuccessFactors Learning and Compensation support consultant. Throughout your support calls, you realise issues with:

Data consistency, duplicate users, incorrect reporting lines, resulting in incorrect views and approvals.
Weak self-service capabilities.
Inactive employees that appear as still active in the system.

Which modules could assist this client with their issues?

Employee Central

Succession and Development

Onboarding

Offboarding

You are assigned as a Succession Management support consultant for ABC limited, an notice that the tickets that are logged are related to the below issues:

Employees reporting to incorrect managers
Employees assigned to incorrect positions
Inactive postions still appearing for succession

Which module/s would assist with this issue?

Performance and Goals

Employee Central

Job Profile Builder

Career Development

ABC Limited needs to ensure that appropriate action is taken on expiration of fixed term employment. This could mean:

Discontinuation of employment, where the remaining absence quota needs to be paid out.
Employment is extended for an employee where they sign extension letter and new employment end date.
Conversion into permanent employment.

Which module/s would need to used to cater for this process?

You are in a Employee Central Project Team Orientation session with a client, and the HR Administrators make mention of a need for Employee Central to resolve their issues in:

Storing payment, tax, social security, time information, garnishees, country specific payrol data and benefits information
Calculating employee remuneration, special payments, overtime payments, bonuses etc
Validating payroll results against policies and rules
Running one-time payment such as bonuses, advance payments, reverse payroll results.

Which module/s would you engage the client on?

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