System Health Dashboard

System Health Dashboard

System Health Dashboard is one of the delivered dashboards which comprises of various metrics pertaining to your workday tenant that you logged in.

A dashboard is a collection of worklets, tasks and notifications.

This dashboard gives you a current picture like how may active users in the tenant, current running tasks, etc., Below are the different worklets that are made use on this page.

• Tenant Overview
• Active User Sessions
• Queue Length - UI
• Queue Length - Background
• Throughput UI
• Throughput -Background

You can create and maintain number of system snapshots in the current working tenant.

Also can view the Resource Scheduling for a day, Week , Month or for certain timeline.

Look out for the Background process trends by Type and Duration. Click on view more for varied timelines.

You can view the Background processes for the past 24 hours

Which Tenant Version I am in?

Which Workday Tenant Version I'm in?

Many of us will have a question as what is the version that I have currently logged in, to identify that you need to access the task Workday System Status . Make sure you have security access to this task.

Also you can rely on What's New in Workday report. Make sure to understand Workday Schedules to get a picture of the upcoming version in the preview tenant.

Interview Questions: Compensation

Compensation Question and Answers

Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in workday (T/F)?
False

Compensation can be populated during staffing activities using defaults form the position/organization through edibility rules (T/F)
True

Compensation grades indicate the employees exact salary(T/F)
False

Compensation grade profiles allow localized salary ranges, currencies, and frequencies (T/F)
True

Compensation Elements tie compensation plans to payroll earnings(T/F)
True

Frequency is a required field on an allowance plan(T/F)
False

Which is not a field in the compensation grade (Currency and frequency, referenced by compensation package, eligibility rules, apply FTE%)
Apply FTE%

Which of the fields below are not part of the salary plan setup(Apply FTE%, Exclude from Merit, Reimbursable, none of the above)
Reimbursable

What is an available value for the number of Compensation Grade segments?
3, 4, 5

Which of the following should be included when setting up a compensation package?(Grades, plans, eligibility rules, all of the above)
all of the above

The system will still let you enter a base pay amount that is outside the compensation grade pay range (T/F)
True

What groups compensation plans and grades?
Compensation Packages

Determines an employee's eligibility for a compensation component during staffing events?
compensation eligibility rules

What is a component for which an employee is paid and for what purpose (salary, hourly, allowance)?
Compensation Plan

What is a required component to link compensation in HCM with Payroll to ensure accurate payroll earnings?
Compensation Element

Which comp element allows localization of pay range guidelines?
Compensation Grade Profile

Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in the workday system (T/F)
False

The system will allow you to enter a base pay amount that is less than or greater than the grade range for which the employee was eligible(T/F)
True

What will happen if an employee is eligible for three allowance plans but the plans are not in the compensation package for which they are eligible?
The plans will not default in but you can manually select the plans during the compensation step of a transaction

When configuring compensation you can specify different eligibility rules on the compensation plan and the compensation package(T/F)
True

Which of the following is not specified on a Compensation Package - Compensation Plans, Compensation Grades, Compensation Grade Profiles, or Eligibility Rules
Compensation Grade Profiles

Name two types of compensation plans
allowance plan, salary plan, hourly plan, one time payment plan

Which three compensation components are required for employees
A Comp Package, grade, and a plan

What are used to localize grades / define different ranges for the same grade based on locations
Grade Profiles

What is the purpose of a compensation eligibility rule
To determine an employee's eligibility for each compensation component to default in during staffing and compensation business process

If a worker is eligible for a compensation package are they also automatically eligible for the grades and plans within that package
no - the grades and plans do not assume the same eligibility as the package they are within. The worker must be also eligible for a specific compensation grade and plans within the package

which setting on a compensation allowance plan restricts users from changing the configured amount while proposing compensation during staffing events
the No Override checkbox

what are two ways that you can configure a compensation grade to a default during staffing transactions
assign the compensation grade directly to a job profile or attach an eligibility rule to the grade

T / F: Contingent workers have no compensation within Workday
True - only pay rate for reporting purposes, labeled with a (C) behind their name

What are the key components of compensation?
Grade (profiles)
Plan(s)
Package
Eligibility rules for each

What is used to allow for comp to default in during a staffing event?
comp eligibility rules

If I place an eligibility rule on a compensation package, will it default into grades and plans?
No

What is the purpose of compensation basis?
groups together comp components to find estimated earnings

What's the purpose of a compensation rule?
to determine who is eligible for each compensation component

T / F: The comp rules used at the package level flow through to the components
False - no inheritance

If a client wants one package for all employees, but has a unique grade and plan in the UK, what would your rule be and where would you apply it?
-Rule: All employees
-Apply it to Eligibility Rule for Grade and Eligibility Rule for Plan
*Wrong? Wouldn't the rule be Location: UK?*

If your comp did not default in during the staffing event, what would you check?
-Comp package: plans and grades are attached
-Eligibility rule for comp plan
-Eligibility rule for comp grade
-Make sure they aren't eligible for more than one grade, salary plan, or comp package

How many packages should an employee be eligible for to make sure it defaults?
one

What happens if an employee is eligible for plans, but not included in a package?
won't default, must go to pick-list

Where can you find the no override check box?
Allowance Plans

If compensation is given to a worker during a hiring event but is assigned a job profile with pre-assigned compensation, which one wins?
the compensation attached to the job profile

If an employee is eligible for a package that has 3 bonus plans, and they are eligible for 3 bonus plans, which will default in?
all 3

T / F: You can default compensation for position mgmt, headcount group, or job mgmt
True

True or False: Compensation eligibility rules use a framework that is completely unique to compensation and is unlike anything else in the Workday system.
False

True or False: The system will allow you to enter a base pay amount that is less than or greater than the grade range for which the employee was eligible.
True

What will happen if an employee is eligible for three allowance plans but the plans are not in the compensation package for which they are eligible?
The plans will not default in, but you can manually select the plan(s) during the compensation step of a transaction.

Related Terms and Glossary - Compensation

Compensation
Ability to offer competitive compensation packages, ability to handle global regulations and global employee and uses a single system for compensation

Compensation Grades
Provides pay range guidelines as references

Compensation Package
A grouping of compensation guidelines (grades, grade profiles, and their associated steps) and plans that you can assign to workers as a set. Packages provide a quick view of eligible plans for a particular job or group of employees.

Compensation Eligibility Rules
Determines an employees eligibility for a compensation component during staffing events

Compensation Plan
A component for which an employee is paid and for what purpose (ex. salary, hourly, allowance)

Compensation Element
Required component to link compensation in HCM with Payroll to ensure accurate payroll earnings

Compensation Grade Profile
allows localization of pay range guidelines

Compensation Element
Required component to link compensation in HCM with Payroll to ensure accurate payroll earnings

Supplemental Earning
Any compensation paid in addition to an employee's regular wages that includes, but is not limited to, severance or dismissal pay, vacation pay, back pay, bonuses, moving expenses, overtime, taxable fringe benefits, and commissions. In Workday, only supplemental earnings can be grossed-up.

Base pay element
The compensation components that are included in the calculation of base pay for the purposes of determining the compa-ration and target penetration. Example: include both this and bonuses in the base pay calculation for compa-ratio.

Compensation basis
A grouping of compensation components, such as salary, commission and allowance plans, that define estimated earnings for an employee population.

Compensation component
An umbrella term for compensation packages, grade, grade profiles, and plans that can be associated with compensation eligibility rules.

Compensation defaulting rule
A rule that establishes the criteria for how compensation components default worker compensation during staffing transactions (such as a hire or job change)

Compensation element
These link Compensation to Payroll. When this is attached to a plan that is assigned to an employee, Workday can determine which earnings to use to pay the employee.

Compensation rule
Guidelines for determining which workers are eligible for which components of compensation.

Compensation Target rule
A rule used to segment your employee population for assignment of compensation plans.

Compensation Step
A specific monetary amount within a grade or grade profile.

Reference Pay Range
A range of pay deemed appropriate for a compensation grade or grade profile. During compensation transactions, if proposed compensation for an employee extends beyond the limits of the range for the employee's grade or grade profile, Workday issues a warning yet still permits submission of the proposed compensation.

Data Sources

Data Sources

For reporting, Data Source is a must. You need to select your data source at the time of creating your report.

Multiple data sources can have the same primary business object. Example: Both the All Workers and All Active and Terminated Workers data sources have Worker as the primary business object.

Some data sources return all instances of the primary business object, such as All Workers. Some data sources also include:

• Built-in filters that limit the number of business object instances. Example: All Active Employees.
• Prompts that you can use when running the report. Example: Employees by Organization.

Workday secures data sources and data source filters by security domains. Different domains might secure a data source and its data source filters. Example: Many domains secure the Workers for HCM Reporting data source, but only the Worker Data: Headcount Reports and Worker Data: Turnover Summary domains secure the Workers by Role filter on the data source.

From the related actions menu of a data source, you can select Custom Report > Create to create a custom report using the data source.

Access the Report Data Sources, in this report you can see the Primary Business Object, permitted Security Groups, Data Source type, Prompts and most importantly Description of the data source. This provides you with the detailed information of what that particular data source is all about.