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Last Updated: 2024-03-08
Steps: Set Up Calibration

Steps: Set Up Calibration

Make sure there's an employee assigned to every role on all organizations participating in calibration, such as:
  • Managers as calibration participants.
  • HR Partners as calibration facilitators.
  • HR Administrators as calibration controllers.
You can set up calibration to enable managers, HR partners, and talent administrators to evaluate your workers' performance and assess their growth potential within your organization. You can launch a calibration event by supervisory or custom organization.
  1. (Optional) Determine if your calibration event is large enough that you need to work with the Workday Production Readiness team.
    See Workday Community: Production Readiness: Large Volume Events Best Practices for guidelines about opening a Production Readiness case.
  2. Set Up Assignable Roles.
    Create assignable roles for:
    • Managers who use the
      Calibrate Team
      task in their
      My Tasks
      to calibrate their team members.
    • HR Partners who use the
      Facilitate Calibration
      task to calibrate workers.
    • Talent Administrators who use the
      Manage Calibration
      task to oversee the entire calibration process and complete the final calibration submission.
  3. As you complete this task, create:
    • A security group hierarchy that is similar to your company's management chain to calibrate using a custom organization.
    • A role-based security group for managers so they can view employees in levels below their direct reports.
    • Role-based security groups for HR Partners and Talent Administrators.
  4. Edit Business Process Security Policies for these business processes:
    Business Process
    Recommendations
    Launch Calibration
    • Configure the initiating action on the
      Launch Calibration
      business process to include security groups that you intend to delegate any steps to.
    • Select the
      Security Group
      that you want to act as the calibration facilitator in the
      View All
      action under the
      Who Can Do Actions on Entire Business Process
      section.
    • Add users in the HR Administrator role to these security groups.
    Worker Calibration
    • Add security groups to actions in the
      Who Can Do Actions on Entire Business Process
      section.
    • Select the
      Security Group
      for the
      Rescind
      action.
    • Add users in the HR Partner role to these security groups.
  5. From the related actions menu of the
    Launch Calibration
    business process, select
    Business Process > Edit Definition
    .
    1. Add
      Shared Participation
      as the
      Type
      and
      Specify
      the
      Calibration Participation Details
      step. You can only have 1 shared participation step in your business process definition.
    2. Select
      Configure Participation
      in the
      Calibration Participation Details
      step.
      • You can create custom
        Launch Calibration
        business process definitions for supervisory organizations and assign specific groups such as HR Administrators and HR Partners. You can create separate business process definitions for each organization type.
      • Select
        Supervisory
        or
        Custom
        from the
        Organization Type to Use
        prompt and specify 1 security group as the participant in the
        Group
        prompt. Participants in these security groups receive inbox notifications for the calibration events that they manage.
      • The
        Group
        prompt displays the role-based security groups with permission on the
        Worker Data: Calibration
        security domain.
    3. (Optional) Add an approval step after the
      Launch Calibration
      initiation step to approve the process initiation before starting calibration. Assign this step to someone with access to all employees in the calibration, such as an HR Administrator.
  6. Select a calibration nBox report and configure the calibration program.
  7. (Optional) Access the
    Maintain Calibration Flags
    task.
    Define the Calibration Flags that display in the calibration list view in the
    Calibrate Team
    task in your
    My Tasks
    .
  8. (Optional) Set up an activity stream to support calibration.
    Access the
    Edit Tenant Setup - System
    task and select the
    Activity Stream for Calibration
    option in the
    Activity Stream Settings
    field. This setting enables calibration participants to enter and view comments on the worker for in-progress calibration events in the activity stream. Workday recommends that if you enable activity streams in calibration, you instruct managers to frequently refresh their Workday
    My Tasks
    .
    See Steps: Enable Activity Stream.
Users in this security group receive the
Calibrate Team
tasks in their
My Tasks
to calibrate workers in their organization when you launch the calibration. Managers who manage multiple organizations receive:
  • 1 instance of the
    Calibrate Team
    task, if the organizations have a hierarchical relationship where 1 is the parent and the other is subordinate.
  • Individual instances of the
    Calibrate Team
    task, for the organizations that don't share the same parent organization.
Create Calibration nBox reports and configure them for calibration.