Cascading objectives allow a supervisor to distribute some of the objective/general performance targets that are assigned to the supervisor, to his/her respective subordinates. This functionality facilitates the organizational objectives to flow from the top all the way to the last node of the hierarchy. A supervisor can select an objective that is assigned for him/her and choose to cascade it to any employee the supervisor has access to.
The Activity Revise Cascading objectives & Activities
is performed to make generic changes to the cascaded objective details
before we cascade it to the subordinate employees.
Example: - The performance objective that is assigned
to the supervisor may have a target or description “50% growth in annual
sales revenue” however, when the supervisor is cascading it to the
subordinates, he/she may want to change the description to a value such as
"Sales target of 60 Million".
The changes that are performed here will reflect to all the employee’s supervisor selects to cascade (selecting employees explained under the next activity). However, if the supervisor wishes to make individual changes the supervisor can activate the toggle “Manage employees”
Following fields can be changed before the supervisor performs the cascade
Objective Description
Target
Possible Obstacles
Comments
Include Activities
If the Supervisor wishes to include the Activities that are attached to the Objective or introduce new Activities to the cascading objective, then “Include Activities” Toggle needs to be activated.
This will activate the Activities section in the assistant
If there are existing activities attached to the cascaded objective, those activities will be listed here
The supervisor can add new, edit, or remove these activities before he/she completes the cascade
The changes performed during this step will be applied to all the employees the supervisor selects in the assistant
Manage Employees
If the supervisor wishes to make changes to individual
employees, the Manage Employees Toggle needs to be activated.
This will
enable the “Next” button in the assistant which directs you to a step to
manage employee objectives and activities and perform employee wise changes
to the cascaded objective descriptions, targets, comments etc.…. (Please
note for the next button to be enabled you need to make sure you have
selected your employees and Activated “Manage Employees” toggle)
Cascading via Manager Services
The same set of activities mentioned above can be
performed using manager services. In this case a user who has access to both
the supervisor and the subordinate records will select an objective of the
supervisor’s performance evaluation and perform the cascade.
Objectives are created for supervisor employee.
New Objectives will be assigned to the selected subordinates.
(As this
is a cascaded record, the respective supervisor's employee number (from whom
the record was cascaded), performance year and company will be recored as
reference in the subordinates cascaded objective)
The Column "Cascaded" will update as "Yes" for the supervisors performance Objective.