Interview Question and Answers
1. What is Supervisory Organisation?
Supervisory organizations are the foundation to HCM.
Supervisory organizations group workers into a management
hierarchy.
In the management hierarchy we can easily identify who reports to
whom.
Jobs and positions are created into the supervisory organizations.
Employees must be hired into a supervisory organization.
compensation structure and Business Processes are associated with
supervisory organizations.
2. Matrix Organisation?
Matrix organizations allow us to create and manage dotted-line
relationships between workers and managers.
Example: 1
Admin Manager: Supervisory Organisation
Functional Manager: Matrix Manager / Indirect manager/ Project
Manager
a marketing worker reporting to the Marketing manager and
Development manager.
Admin Manager: Marketing manager
Functional Manager: Development manager.
3. What is Custom Organisation?
Custom Organizations in Workday are user-defined organizational structures
that are used to group the workers for specific business needs. And Custom
Organizations are not delivered by Workday-provided organization types.
Example:
Track employees working under specific research groups.
Separate HR processing for sensitive groups.
Specialized workflows or reporting access.
Assign employees to projects, route time tracking approvals, and
generate project-based financial reports.
4. What is the difference between Position and Job Management?
Staffing models provides a different level of control over staffing.
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POSITION MANAGEMENT
Most control over the position.
Hiring restrictions are established at each Position Level.
To hire, promote, demote, contract, or transfer into a position, there must
be an approved and available position.
Positions can be moved from one supervisory organization to another as
part of a job change.
JOB MANAGEMENT
Most flexible staffing model.
Hiring restrictions are established at the organization level.
Unlimited number of jobs available for hire within an organization.
A position no longer exists after a worker is transferred, demoted,
promoted, or terminated, unless it is moved with the employee.
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5. What are the Hiring Restrictions?
Hiring restrictions are define the conditions in a position or job management
organizations.
Job families
Job profiles
Locations
Worker type
Worker sub type
Time type
No restrictions
6. DIFFERENTIATING JOB PROFILES, JOB FAMILIES, AND JOB FAMILY GROUPS?
7. What is the difference between compensation Grade and Grade
Profile?
8. What is compensation Grade?
9. What is compensation Grade Profile.?
10. What is compensation Plan?
11. What is compensation Package?
12. What is compensation Eligibility Rule?
13. What is FTE?
Prorate compensation for employees based on their full-time equivalent
percentage.
14. What are the allowance Plan types?
Amount Based
Percent Based
Unit Based
15. What are the compensation Events?
Propose Compensation Hire
Propose Compensation Change
Request One-time payment.
SECURITY
1. What is security Group.
A security group is a collection of system users used to grant access to Workday.
2. What is Domain?
Domains are collections of items that defined tasks and reports that are
functionally similar. Every domain has its own domain security policy.
3. What are the types of security policies?
Domain Security Policies
Business Process Policies
4. What is difference between security policies?
Domain Security Policies allows you to define which security groups can view or
modify data within the domains.
Examples:
Who can view employee compensation data.
Who can edit job profiles.
Business Process Policies allows you to define which security groups can
participate in the business process workflow.
Examples:
Who can take action at each step in a business process like approvals, reviews,
initiations…etc
Who can initiate a "Hire" Business Process.
Who can approve a "Termination" Business Process approval Step.
Who can approve a " Compensation Change " Business Process approval
Step.
Who can cancel or rescind a Business Process step.
Who Can Do Action Steps in the Business Process.
5. What is the difference between constrained and unconstrained
security group.?
Constrained:
A constrained security group limits the access to the users.
User have contextual access to a subset of data to which the security
group has access.
Constraints in Workday are typically to organizations.
Unconstrained:
Unconstrained security group grants access to all data permitted by the
security Group.
Users have access to all data instances secured by the security group.
6. When you modify your security policies to add or remove security
groups or enable or disable policies and functional areas. The
changes not working in the system. Why?
Activate Pending security Polices.
7. What is the difference between the user based and role-based
security groups.?
User-Based Security Groups are manually assigned to specific
users/Employees.
Examples:
HR Administrator
Finance Administrator
Role-Based Security Groups are assigned automatically based on
Workers whose positions are assigned to the role within a supervisory
organization.
Examples:
HR Partner
Benefits Partner
8. What is the segment Based security group.?
Segment-Based Security Group gives access to the users only for the data
associated with specific components of the securable item.
Example:
Documents – Benefits and Integrations and Different Categories.
