You run the Increment Progression Points process to automatically increment the grade step placements of your employees. The process increments the grade step placement of an assignment only if:
The current step of the assignment is below the ceiling point.
You have selected the Automatic-Increment check box on the Grade Step Placement window for the assignment.
The parameters in the Increment Progression Points process enable you to be specific, when detailing the assignments to be included in the process. For example, you are able to specify that a particular organization hierarchy or part of that hierarchy is selected to be part of the process when it is run.
When you run the Increment Progression Points process, you can choose to update employee progression point information or run the process in report only mode. When you run the process in report only mode, no changes are made to employee information but you can see what would happen if the full process is run.
See: Incrementing Grade Step Placements
You can select people to be incremented according to specific business rules. You can choose to enforce the following business rules to the increment process:
Anniversary of joining
Date of birth
Latest hire date
Adjusted Service date
For each rule, you specify a start and end date, for example, if you want to increment all those people who have a birthday in January and are between the ages of 18 and 21, you specify a date range of 01-JAN-2001 to 31-JAN-2001 and an age range of 18 to 21.
You enter a dependent date to specify the actual date that the increment is performed. The four dependent date categories are as follows:
Business rule effective date
Effective date
Start of next month
Start of next pay period
Note: The dependent date, is used by the process to check if the assignment is on a grade scale and has a grade step. If the assignment has a grade step on the effective date but not on the dependent date, no increment is given.
See: Incrementing Grade Step Placements
When you run the Increment Progression Points process two reports are automatically created. You may choose to run the Increment Progression Points process in Report Only Mode before deciding whether to actually run the process. Running the process in Report Only Mode enables you to see the process results before the process is actually run.
The two reports produced by the Increment Progression Points process are:
Employee Increment Results Report, displays the actual or projected results of running the Increment Progression Points process.
Employee Increment Exception Report, displays persons within a group of employees, excluded from the Increment Progression Points process. The Exception report provides details of why employees have been excluded from the Increment Progression Points process and errors resulting from the process.
See: Incrementing Grade Step Placements
Attention: If you update an employee Point value in the Grade Step Placement window and run the Increment Progression Points process during the same day, the report will not give an accurate indication of the difference between the old Point value and the new Point value. The reason for this is that the report comparison displays differences on a day to day basis, meaning that you should try to avoid running the process on the same day and multiple times on the same day as making manual updates to employee Point values.