Performance Management Objective Setting

Hi Everyone,
I am working on a full HCM implementation and had a few questions regarding performance management. The client is interested in having goals and objectives "cascade" through org. units and pre-load on Performance Appraisal templates.
In the phap_catalog, I have noticed a value determination named "ORG_OBJECTIVES" and it supposedly auto-fills goals set by managers for the performance review period.
Basically, I am looking for a productive/proper way to have goals flow from the overall organization, through lower level organizational units down to each and every employee.
For example: Company X has 3 overall goals -> Bob Smith works within Org. Unit Y in which there are 3 separate goals that refer to this Org. Unit -> and then Bob Smith has the ability to add 3 of his own goals for the year. Overall there would be 3 overall company goals, 3 org. unit goals (total of 6 that pre-fill) and 3 empty fields for Bob Smith to input his own goals.
Any help would be wonderful. Thank you for your time.

Raghu,
Your response was extremely helpful.
Do you have any documentation or guidance on how I could create custom tables to use this BADI that you are talking about. Currently there is no plan for SEM, so I am going to have to take the route of custom tables utilizing the BADI that you mentioned. In terms of custom tables, creating them and using them, I only have a high level knowledge, so any documentation/guidance would be very helpful.
Regards,
Adam P.

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Hi Friends,
When i click on Add Objective using Performance Management page i.e the SSHR page
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Objective Settings to be approved by both immediate manager and the second higher manager. But, now, only the immediate manager can approve it. I read the doc id Note:550338.1. But, is there any workaround for this? Can we attach custom workflow to this? so that it goes to second higher manager for approval?
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We have had this discussion outside the forum, but I have added my comments here in case they are useful to others.
I have read note 550338.1 and I think you would wait a long time for this to be made part of the standard process!
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I'm currently struggling with a core data issue with my app that defies (my) logic. I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but can't see what. I am doing a basic executeFetchRequest on my core data entity, but the array of managed objects returned never seems to be released ONLY when I run it on the iPhone, under the simulator it works exactly as expected. This is despite using an NSAutoreleasePool to ensure the memory footprint is minimised. I have also checked with Instruments and there are no leaks, just ever increasing allocations of memory (by '[NSManagedObject(_PFDynamicAccessorsAndPropertySupport) allocWithEntity:]'). In my actual app this eventually leads to a didReceiveMemoryWarning call. I have produced a minimal program that reproduces the problem below. I have tried various things such as faulting all the objects before draining the pool, but with no joy. If I provide an NSError pointer to the fetch no error is returned. There are no background threads running.
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    mach_msg_type_number_t host_size;
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- (void)viewDidLoad
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        NSAutoreleasePool *looppool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
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2011-06-06 09:50:28.123 renniksoft[937:207] INITIAL FREEMEM: 14782464
2011-06-06 09:50:28.128 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14807040
2011-06-06 09:50:28.135 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14831616
2011-06-06 09:50:28.139 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14852096
2011-06-06 09:50:28.142 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14872576
2011-06-06 09:50:28.146 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14897152
2011-06-06 09:50:28.149 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14917632
2011-06-06 09:50:28.153 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14938112
2011-06-06 09:50:28.158 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14962688
2011-06-06 09:50:28.161 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14983168
2011-06-06 09:50:28.165 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14741504
2011-06-06 09:50:28.168 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14770176
2011-06-06 09:50:28.174 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14790656
2011-06-06 09:50:28.177 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14811136
2011-06-06 09:50:28.182 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14831616
2011-06-06 09:50:28.186 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14589952
2011-06-06 09:50:28.189 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14610432
2011-06-06 09:50:28.192 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14630912
2011-06-06 09:50:28.194 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14651392
2011-06-06 09:50:28.197 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14671872
2011-06-06 09:50:28.200 renniksoft[937:207] FREEMEM: 14692352
2011-06-06 09:50:28.203 renniksoft[937:207] FINAL FREEMEM: 14716928
However, when I run it on an actual iPhone 4 (4.3.3) I get the following result:
2011-06-06 09:55:54.341 renniksoft[4727:707] INITIAL FREEMEM: 267927552
2011-06-06 09:55:54.348 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 267952128
2011-06-06 09:55:54.702 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 265818112
2011-06-06 09:55:55.214 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 265355264
2011-06-06 09:55:55.714 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 264892416
2011-06-06 09:55:56.215 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 264441856
2011-06-06 09:55:56.713 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 263979008
2011-06-06 09:55:57.226 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 264089600
2011-06-06 09:55:57.721 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 263630848
2011-06-06 09:55:58.226 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 263168000
2011-06-06 09:55:58.726 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 262705152
2011-06-06 09:55:59.242 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 262852608
2011-06-06 09:55:59.737 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 262389760
2011-06-06 09:56:00.243 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 261931008
2011-06-06 09:56:00.751 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 261992448
2011-06-06 09:56:01.280 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 261574656
2011-06-06 09:56:01.774 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 261148672
2011-06-06 09:56:02.290 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 260755456
2011-06-06 09:56:02.820 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 260837376
2011-06-06 09:56:03.334 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 260395008
2011-06-06 09:56:03.825 renniksoft[4727:707] FREEMEM: 259932160
2011-06-06 09:56:04.346 renniksoft[4727:707] FINAL FREEMEM: 259555328
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// Create test entities
for(int i=0; i<1000; i++) {
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    [entity setValue:[NSNumber numberWithInt:i] forKey:@"value"];
if (![context save:nil]) {
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If anyone can explain to me what is going on I'd be very grateful! This issue is the only only one holding up the release of my app. It works beautifully on the simulator!!
Please let me know if there's any more info I can supply.

Update: I modified the above code so that the fetch (and looppool etc.) take place when a timer fires. This means that the fetches aren't blocked in viewDidLoad.
The result of this is that the issue happens exactly as before, but the applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning is fired as expected:
2011-06-08 09:54:21.024 renniksoft[5993:707] FREEMEM: 6131712
2011-06-08 09:54:22.922 renniksoft[5993:707] Received memory warning. Level=2
2011-06-08 09:54:22.926 renniksoft[5993:707] applicationDidReceiveMemoryWarning
2011-06-08 09:54:22.929 renniksoft[5993:707] FREEMEM: 5615616
2011-06-08 09:54:22.932 renniksoft[5993:707] didReceiveMemoryWarning
2011-06-08 09:54:22.935 renniksoft[5993:707] FREEMEM: 5656576

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Error while Deploying Performance Management samples in XI R3.0
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cause:com.crystaldecisions.enterprise.ocaframework.idl.OCA.oca_abuse: IDL:img.seagatesoftware.com/OCA/oca_abuse:3.2
detail:Enterprise authentication could not log you on. Please make sure your logon information is correct. (FWB 00008)
The server supplied the following details: OCA_Abuse exception 10498 at [.\secpluginent.cpp : 826] 42040 {}
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        at com.businessobjects.util.PublishUtil.main(Unknown Source)
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I am getting the following fields:
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Created By
Start Date
Target Date
Next Review Date
Group (Has a list of departments)
Priority
Weighting Scale
Complete (%)
Achievement Date
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"set the value of this field using OA Customization based on value of Group field"
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Oracle Performance Management doubts

Hi All,
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Que2. Can we do objective setting and Appraisal process simultaneously? That would be allocate objective and rating in parallel?
Que3. When and how the rating provided by manager would reflect in the Performance (People --> Assignment --> other --> Performance) widow and what would be the effective date. I have completed all setup and process but the final rating is still not available.
Que4. What is difference between Talent management, Performance management and Workforce performance Management?
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Sorry for asking too many questions.
Thanks,
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Que1. The weight of all objective should be 100 but in my case it is allowing any value. What I need to do to restrict it?
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Que2. Can we do objective setting and Appraisal process simultaneously? That would be allocate objective and rating in parallel?
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Que4. What is difference between Talent management, Performance management and Workforce performance Management?
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Note the following advice pertaining to transporting an appraisals and objective setting template (I have not found documentation about this anywhere else, so hopefully some of you find this useful):
Scenario:
You have maintained your templates in PHAP_CATALOG_PA in the main config client, and you have transported all other configurations (basic settings, etc.) to your unit test/integration test environment.
However, although you have right-clicked the category groups and templates to be transported and included them in a transport request, you find that only some of your configuration (or perhaps none at all!) is arriving in the target client when the transport is performed.
You may initially be able to work around this by downloading/uploading your config, but once your templates contain more complex configuration (such as using dynamic element references, etc.) you will find that this is no longer a feasible approach.
Cause & Resolution:
The problem is caused by outdated information in the workflow definition environment (transaction SWU3), and specifically the section labeled "Check Entries from HR Control Tables".
Run transaction SWU3, expand tree node "Maintain Definition Environment" (which should be marked with a red cross at this stage) and click on "Check Entries from HR Control Tables". The information presented in the right-hand pane indicates that:
If there are errors regarding the transport objects PDST or PDWS, the relevant entries are not maintained in table SOBJ. You can use the report RHSOBJCH to rectify this later.
Proceed as suggested and run report RHSOBJCH (through SE38 or SA38) in the config client (i.e. where the templates are to be transported from). This has no side-effects I am aware of other than updating the reference information required.
If you now run SWU3 again you should find that the "Check Entries from HR Control Tables" node is marked with a green tick.
Simply go back to the catalog, include your cat.groups & templates in a transport again, and Voila! Our work here is done.
Happy transporting...
Side-note: You may ask (as I did) what transporting of appraisal templates has to do with workflow, but it just so happens that the PD objects and infotypes associated with appraisals (VA, VB, VC, etc.) are transported through the same mechanism as workflow templates (which are also PD objects). if you peek inside the transport you will note that everything to do with the template and category group configuration is bundled inside PDWS and PDST transport objects...
Edited by: Francois Van Lille on Jun 29, 2009 9:58 AM

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A. Jimenez wrote:
> Hi Francois,
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> I have successfully transported Categories and Templates, but I have customized "appraisals process", which seems to create VH Objects, and this objects or customizations are not added in the transport order.
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> You or anyone know how to transport this customization?
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> Thanks in advance
Hi Abe,
what is the appraisal process you are talking about? The new stuff in ep4 where you define the process and steps which create the roadmap at the top of the document? if so SAP does not have a great straightforward solution, but they did provide us some options.
you can check out this thread and if you want I can send you the full document that is referred to in the post.
EP4: Performance Management-Flexible-Transporting the Tab & Process config

Performance Management Objective Setting

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