HR Context-Sensitive Based Security

Dear All,
Wondering if anyone implemented Context Sensitive based security in HR. That is using P_ORGINCON auth object instead of P_ORGIN for HR Master data.
If so, were there any issues? Looking for some pros and cons to convince our Steering Committee.
Based on my experience, it would be little upfront work but would save the agravation in the long run with the HR personnel cross functional activities.
Any suggestions or thoughts are great!!
Thanks
Sarada

will this be a new implementation or an upgrade?
furthermore, determining whether or which issues you will encounter in the process of implementing context-sensitive authorizations mostly depends on the requirements your company has given you and your team.
initially, the organizational structure has to be in place. without an accurate structure you have no change of succeeding.

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