If your grade ladder uses manual approval of proposed progressions, you can set it up to enable ranking of employees so that you can select the most eligible employees from a group of people to progress. The ranking ability thus gives you a fair basis for selection of employees when there are more eligible people than you can progress.

If you set up your grade ladder to enable ranking of employees, you must run the ranking process for the employee ranks to appear in the Approvals: Grade/Step Progression page. The ranking process computes the ranks of all the employees on a ranking-enabled grade ladder, on the basis of their total scores for the eligibility criteria they satisfy.

You run this process after you have run the Participation Process and before you approve (or reject) the proposed progression using the Approvals page.

Use the Submit Request window.

   To run the Rank Employees for Grade/Step Progression process:

1. Select Rank Employees for Grade/Step Progression as the Name and click in the Parameters field to open the Parameters window.

   If you run this process without specifying any parameters, then the process computes ranks for all the employees proposed for grade/step progression, excluding those who have been approved or whose approvals are awaiting their managers' approval. The process runs in the report-only mode and does not save the ranks to the database.

2. Select a grade ladder name to compute ranks for all the employees on that grade ladder, and a grade name to restrict the process to that grade.

   If you have set up your grade ladder to enable computing of scores by grade ladder, the process computes ranks for the entire grade ladder, even if you select a grade in the parameters. Similarly, if you select a grade without specifying a grade ladder, the process checks how you have set up the computing option, that is, if it is by grade or grade ladder, and computes the ranks accordingly.

3. Enter a date range to restrict the process to GSP life events processed within that range.

   If you enter only the life events processed start date and no end date, the process picks up all the GSP life events processed as on that date.

4. Specify a specific participation process, by selecting the request ID, to rank employees processed in that run of the participation process.

   If you select this parameter, the application ignores all the other parameters you selected, such as the grade ladder and grade, and processes all the progressions that the application processed in that participation process run.

5. Select the appropriate option in the Validate field. If you select Commit, the process saves the computed ranks for the employees. If you select Rollback, the process runs in report-only mode and does not save the employee ranks.

6. Specify if you want to include employees whose proposed progressions are awaiting their managers' approval. This parameter applies only if you have enabled Workflow for the grade ladder.

7. Click OK, and then Submit.