The Approval Chains page of a compensation cycle setup allows admins to view recommenders and approvers and remove any recommenders.
Before you start
Super admins, compensation admins, and custom role owners will be able to provide final approval for all compensation changes during and after the compensation cycle in the cycle's Admin view.
Admins will be the recommender for employees at the top of the org chart.
Approval Chains
Recommenders and approvers table
All managers with eligible direct reports are included within the Recommenders and approvers table as compensation recommenders. Managers of managers will be listed as approvers of the managers who report to them. If required, this can be adjusted to any other cycle participant.
The Recommenders and approvers table includes:
Name: The name of the recommender or approver.
Select the ellipsis next to their name to Remove and reassign, View approvals, or View recommendations for that user.
Department and Title: The Department and Job title of the recommender or approver.
Submitting to: The employee this recommender or approver is submitting recommendations and approvals to.
Select Edit here to update the entire approval chain.
Recommendations: The number of eligible employees the user will make compensation change recommendations for.
Approvals: The number of eligible employees the user will approve or adjust compensation changes for.
Department: The Department the recommender or approver is in.
Pay zone: The assigned Pay zone value for the recommender or approver.
Exclude or Include recommenders
As an admin, you can exclude or include any specific recommenders and approvers from submitting in the cycle by toggling their names from the list and selecting Exclude or Include at the top of the table. If excluded, any employees they were responsible for recommending or approving will automatically be assigned to the next assigned user higher up in the approval chain. If you choose to exclude every recommender and approver in the approval chain, the admin will, by default, be responsible for all recommendations unless manually reassigned.
Adjust the approval chain
As an admin, you can adjust the full approval chain and assign any user in the cycle, provided they are not already a downstream employee in the same reporting line. You can make these changes during both the cycle's setup and its active phase.
During Setup:
Navigate to Admin > Compensation > Compensation Cycles > select the cycle.
Navigate to the Approval chains page.
Next to the approver, select Edit.
Use the dropdown to select or search to assign a new approver.
To add additional approvers, select + Add approver, or to remove approvers, select the X next to an approver's name.
To verify changes to the approval chain that may affect the order of other approval chains, select Continue to review.
Once verified, select Save changes.
Learn more about changing an approver during an active cycle.
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