Understanding Case and Knowledge Management
Case and Knowledge Management for the scoped version of HR benefits your enterprise by automating standard HR processes within your organization that support relationships between employees and the HR department.
Who uses HR Service Delivery
HR Service Delivery
is used by the enterprise HR department. An enterprise HR department is composed of many areas,
such as employee relations, benefits administration, policy enforcement, recruitment and
employment, and performance management. The members of a large HR organization typically
include:
- HR specialists who specialize in one or more HR disciplines. For example, the benefits area has specialists in insurance administration, leave and vacation time, and employee stock purchase.
- HR generalists who work with a business group or in a geographical region to assist employees with questions, careers, performance management, and other employee relations requests.
- HR managers who monitor and measure the effectiveness of the HR group in supporting employees across the organization. They also ensure that the enterprise is compliant with federal, state, and local regulations.
- HR systems administrators who configure and maintain systems such as the central employee database, payroll, learning and performance management system, and others, including the Human Resources application.
How you use HR Service Delivery
HR Service Delivery
enhances and supports your enterprise. The relationships between your employees, IT, and the HR
department are supported in numerous ways:
- Employees can use the HR Service Portal or catalog to submit questions and other requests to the HR department.
- If you use the Connect Support feature, employees can chat with an HR agent who is monitoring the HR chat queue. See Connect Support.Hinweis:Connect Support will be deprecated. For similar capabilities, please move to Advanced Work Assignment and Agent Chat. For details, see Move from Connect Support to Advanced Work Assignment and Agent Chat.
- HR staff can create, manage, and view HR cases to answer questions and process the requests that employees submit.
- HR managers can run reports and view overview information to monitor and manage work done by the HR department.
- HR and corporate IT administrators can more effectively manage the company HR systems, such as the payroll and performance management systems, through the Enterprise Configuration Management Database (ECMDB).
How you benefit from HR Service Delivery
Your entire organization benefits by using the application in the following ways:
- Automates standard HR processes
- Several typical HR processes are automated. This automation reduces the number of checklists, email exchanges, and phone calls performed by the HR team.
- Improves employee access
- Employees access HR services through a service catalog, rather than having to write individual emails, make phone calls, or personally visit HR for each request.
- Tracks requests and progress
- HR managers use reports and views to help them understand the work their staff is performing to support the company. Employees can see the status of their requests.
- Integrates with other services
- Human resources processes can include both HR tasks and tasks for other teams, to provide significant service delivery improvements.
HR Service Delivery terminology
The following terminology is used for the application.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| HR Criteria | Way to select groupings of HR and System users based on criteria |
| HR Services | List of HR Services |
| HR Topic Categories | List of HR Service Topic Categories |
| HR Relationships | User relationships with each other |
| HR Positions | Positions available in company table |
| HR Assignment Tier Definition | Specifies escalation hierarchy |
| HR Group Roles | List of groups that have HR group roles |
| HR Email Scripts | List of all HR email scripts |
| HR User Roles | List of users who have HR user roles |
| HR Templates | Templates for Case record creation based on catalog item |
| Client Role Rules | Specifies the rules to generate client roles |
| HR Topic | Details List of HR Service Topic Details |
| HR Service Options | List of HR Services options that affect case creation |
| HR Departments | Departments available in company table |
| HR Locations | Locations available in company table |
| HR Chat Queues | List of HR chat queues |
| HR Surveys | Surveys used by HR application |
| HR Links | External links used by HR application |
| HR Properties | System properties used in HR Application |
| HR Email Templates | List of all HR-related email templates |
| HR Knowledge Bases | Knowledge bases used by HR application |
| HR Knowledge Articles | Knowledge articles used by HR application |
| HR Notifications | Email notifications used by HR application |
| HR Service Catalog Categories | Service catalog categories used by HR application |
| HR Service Catalog Items | Service catalog items used by HR application |
| HR Document Templates | Document templates for document content used in HR application |
| HR Groups | Groups used by HR users |
| HR Skills | Skills available to company users |
| HR Roles | Roles used by HR users |
| HR Benefit Provider / Plans | Benefit providers and plans used by HR Benefits service |
| HR Benefit Type | Benefit types used by HR Benefits service |
| Disciplinary Issue Types | Disciplinary issue types used by HR Employee Relations service |
| Disciplinary Warning Types | Warning types used by HR Employee Relations service |
| HR System Report Frequencies | System Report Frequencies defined for HR Systems Service |
| HR System Report Types | HR System Report types used by HR System service |