Goal Management – HCM Implementer

1 Overview of Goal Management Overview of Goal Management The Goals work area enables workers,
managers, and organization owners to define and set goals that support the common objectives of an
organization. Workers can update goals throughout a goal setting and tracking cycle, and managers and
organization owners can track the goals as workers progress through them. The Goals work area
supports these entities: • Specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based (SMART) goals •
Goal plans • Goal plan sets • Review periods Note: Availability of these features of goal management
depends on application settings defined by your organization. SMART Goals Use performance goals that
are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based (SMART) to measure the performance of
workers, help them improve productivity, and achieve career objectives. Performance goals are
resultsoriented, measure work-related performance, and often use specific targets to assess the level of
workers' achievement. For example, the performance goals can specify how workers measure
achievement of objectives and include target dates. Use performance goals in performance documents
as part of the evaluation process. Workers and managers can create performance goals. HR specialists
can create organization goals. Organization goals are performance goals that you create, or those from
the goal library, to set the business direction and targets for your organization. Managers who are also
organization owners can add existing performance goals as organization goals. They can then assign
them to any level of the manager assignment hierarchy to support the organization's overall business
objectives. Workers' can align their own goals to the organization goals to achieve the same objective.
Depending on your application settings, your role, and security privileges, you can add tasks and target
out comes to your goal. Tasks are specific actions you add to a goal that a worker undertakes to achieve
the goal. Goal tasks have various types, including mentoring, researching, and coaching. Target
outcomes enable the linking of a goal to specific skills or qualifications such as competencies, languages,
and licenses and certifications. Use target outcomes to increase a worker's proficiency for current or
future job requirements, or to add to the worker's set of skills. Workers can mark the performance goals
that they create and not linked to any performance documents as private. Private performance goals
aren't visible to others, including managers. Goal Plans Goal plans are used to manage a collection of
performance goals for a specific period. You can roll out goal plans to individuals, a selected hierarchy,
or a wider population within the organization. You can add goals for a worker only 1 Oracle Fusion Cloud
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worker is assigned goal plans. You must associate each goal with a goal plan. Therefore, to add goals to a
worker, you must ensure that goal plans are already assigned to the worker. You can associate a worker
goal only with one goal plan at a time. Each goal plan is associated with a review period. Goal Plan Sets
Goal plan sets are used to group and assign performance goal plans to a population set. Each goal plan
set is associated with a review period. Review Periods Review periods enable you to organize your
processes around goal management and performance evaluations into time-bound business cycles.
Review period is a common component that ties to goal plans and performance document periods. For
example, you create review periods to associate with goal plans and performance documents that fall
within the same time frame. Deep Links You can use deep links to navigate directly to the Goal
Management pages indicated in this table. Deep Link Navigates To Manage Goals Manager's Goals page
that shows the direct and indirect reports My Goals Employee Goals page Related Topics • How
Performance Documents Work with Performance Goals • How Goal Management Works with Profiles •
Goal Plans • Goal Plan Sets Performance Goal Measurements Goal measurements help to assess the
level of success of achieving the performance goal. Workers can add measurements to their own
performance goals. Managers can add and assign measurements to goals of their team members. Your
administrators can use the Use Goal Measurements profile option to determine if users can add only a
single measurement or multiple measurements to a goal. You define and view a measurement for a goal
in the Measurement section. If you select a unit of measure (UOM), you can include optional data for
the measurement, such as target type, target value, and actual value. 2 Oracle Fusion Cloud Talent
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for Goals When the Use Goal Measurements profile option's value is set to Single, users can select and
define only a single measurement for a goal. Multiple Measurements for Goals When the Use Goal
Measurements profile option's value is set to Multiple, users can define and view multiple
measurements for a goal. Calculation Rules for Multiple Measurements Select a calculation rule when
multiple measurements have the same UOM on the add or edit goal pages. The calculation rule you
select is used to determine the overall target and actual values for a goal. The options are: • Average:
The average of the actual and target values is the overall actual and target values for a goal. • Sum: The
sum of the actual and target values is the overall actual and target values for a goal. Related Topics •
Overview of Goal Management FAQs for Overview of Goal Managenment What's a key performance
goal field? Configure a key goal field for performance goals to require manager approval when edited.
The key performance goal fields are: • Goal Name • Description • Success Criteria • Start Date • Target
Completion Date • Priority • Category • Weight • Measurement Name • Unit of Measure • Target Type
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Overview of Goal Management What's a target outcome? Target outcomes are specific skills,
competencies, or certifications added to a goal that can be achieved or acquired by the successful
completion of the goal. Target outcomes help workers improve their proficiency at their current jobs or
develop additional qualifications to prepare them for future jobs. The availability of target outcomes for
addition to goals depends on the content section access settings for your role. Why can't I view the goal
details for some employees who I select? When you search for people on goal pages, you can see all
employees in the organization. But the details you see for those people depend on your security
privileges. Line managers and human resource specialists can access more detailed information about
their team members and people for whom they're responsible