Position data item attributes

Position item attributes indicate a number of characteristics about fields associated with positions. The characteristics are:

  • If the field is required when the Position is defined

  • If changes to the field are recorded in history

  • If the field value defaults to the employee master, requisition, Position and Job personnel action, and Hire personnel action

  • Whether the defaulted value can be overridden

Before defining your position codes, you will want to consider the position data item attributes.

Example

Position management at Two Rivers uses position codes and therefore has the reporting set up by position codes. For this reason, they define position data items to default without an override. Two Rivers has two nurses who receive a different pay rate because of specialty training. Therefore, Two Rivers defines pay rate to be overridden to account for special pay rates for these nurses. If Two Rivers runs reports that include the pay rate, the report will not reflect the correct pay rate for these two nurses.

Example

The Silver Circle Casino uses position codes to help with data entry. The casino reports by employee, not by position code. Silver Circle Casino has set up overrides to all the position items that default. If some dealers have a pay rate or pay plan different from that defined on the position code, the casino overrides it on Employee (HR11). When the casino runs reports, the reports get the pay information from employee records, not from position codes.