The Line of Sight page displays the alignment of objectives in the following regions:

• View Upward Alignment of Objectives

• View Downward Alignment of Objectives

In a PMP, the HR Professional can select either cascading or parallel objective setting. In a cascading process, managers start objective setting; in a parallel process, workers start objective setting.

The Line of Sight page displays objectives in a hierarchy regardless of the objective setting approach (cascading or parallel).

The following example illustrates the Line of Sight feature:

Vision Corporation consists of two departments:

• Corporate Sales and Marketing

• Product Sales

The Corporate Sales and Marketing department has set the Increase Sales Revenue to 500,000 USD objective in the financial year. Paul Smith manages the Corporate Sales and Marketing department and has cascaded this objective to his direct reports, Dan Bird and Tracy Price. He also shares this objective with Alison Faith.

The objective of the Product Sales department is to Increase Product Sales and generate a revenue of 250,000 USD. Alison Faith manages the Product Sales department and has cascaded this objective to her direct reports, John Taylor and Anna Harold. Alison Faith aligns her objective with Paul Smith's objective Increase Sales Revenue to 500,000 USD.

When these employees navigate to the Line of Sight page (from the Employee Self-Service responsibility), they can view the alignment of their objectives in a hierarchy:

• Paul Smith can view the downward alignment of his objective with that of his direct reports, Dan Bird and Tracy Price and also with Alison Faith.

• Alison can view the upward alignment of her objective with that of Paul Smith's objective. She can also view the downward alignment of her objectives with John Taylor and Anna Harold.

• Dan, Tracy, John, and Anna can view the upward alignment of their objective with that of their respective managers.