Once a compensation cycle has been launched, managers of managers will receive a notification prompting them to complete their compensation review for their direct and indirect reports.
Managers of managers are responsible for the approval of recommendations submitted by those in their organization and will see a view that includes approving, in addition to recommending.
This article contains the following topics:
Complete your compensation review
- Within the Home page, select the Complete your compensation review task.
OR
- Navigate to Compensation > Cycles.
- Click View submissions next to the name of the desired active compensation cycle.
Your recommendations
You can provide recommendations for your direct reports under the Your recommendations section.
Read Complete your compensation review: Recommendations to learn more about the compensation recommendation process for your direct reports.
Approve your organization: Approval table
Under Approve your organization, you can view and approve all recommendations submitted by your team for their direct reports.
Filtering the approval table
Three filters are available via checkbox:
- All recommendations: Displays all recommendations regardless of submitted status or not
- Submitted only: Filters out people whose recommendation has NOT been submitted
- Not submitted only: Filters out people whose recommendation has been submitted
The filter bar allows you to filter by Name, Currency, Department, Job Level, Job Function, Job Type, Pay Type, Pay Zone, Manager, Promotion, Waiting On, and Eligibility.
You can also see two progress bars that track recommendations and approvals:
- Recommendations: Tracks how many people in your organization still need submissions
- You've approved: Tracks how many people you have approved
Both progress bars need to be 100% to submit.
The approval table
The table shows everybody in your organization in alphabetical order, along with the following values:
- Name
- Department
- Level
- Recommendation values (salary, bonus, equity) depending on the cycle settings
If an individual's direct manager hasn't submitted a recommendation yet, the green 'Approved' box will not appear next to their name.
Table badges
On the table, you can see several different types of badges. Badges next to each pay type represent which pay variations an employee is eligible for within that pay type.
- Bonus payout: O indicates one-time bonus, and P indicates bonus plan payout
- Equity: P indicates promotion grant, and R indicates refresh grant
- Guidance badges: Indicate cases when an existing recommendation is higher than the guidance
Hovering over the badge will give details on the pay type it represents.
Approving recommendations
To submit, you will need to act on each person in your organization by:
- Ensuring there is a value for that person's recommendation AND
- Clicking Approve to confirm that you agree with the current value
You can click the ellipsis and then View recommendation details to bring out the side participant context panel which allows you to complete the following actions.
- Writing in a recommendation if none was provided by your direct report
- Approve a recommendation supplied by selecting the checkmark next to an individual's name or selecting the Approve button.
- Override a recommendation that was supplied by re-inputting the new pay or adding new pay for recommenders that haven't yet submitted their recommendation
- Add a note or pull up existing notes that have been written about the employee
Keep track
The page footer will track how many outstanding actions you have. The next person in the compensation process will be shown here.
Once you have completed all outstanding recommendations and approvals, the Submit recommendations and approvals button will be enabled. Once you click Submit recommendations and approvals, the next approver in the process will see your recommendations and you will no longer be able to return and make changes.