Oracle Cloud HCM flashcards
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- Enterprise
- The top-level organization in Oracle Cloud HCM that owns reference data sets and is the highest point of the enterprise structure hierarchy. It is not a legal or transactional entity.
- Legal Entity
- The organization that owns statutory and legal reporting obligations, including payroll statutory unit and tax reporting unit associations. It registers with government authorities and is distinct from the business unit.
- Business Unit
- The organization that owns HCM transactional data such as workers, assignments, jobs, grades, and salary bases. Most HCM setup is partitioned by business unit.
- Payroll Statutory Unit
- The legal entity responsible for paying workers and filing statutory payroll reports. It groups one or more tax reporting units and defines the payroll statutory reporting boundary.
- Tax Reporting Unit
- The lowest level at which payroll tax is reported to a tax authority. It belongs to a payroll statutory unit and determines tax calculation and filing boundaries for workers.
- Department
- An organization classification used to group workers for reporting and hierarchy purposes. Departments are arranged in a department tree with date-effective tree versions.
- Job
- A generic workforce structure describing a role independent of a specific person or slot. Jobs carry valid grades, evaluation criteria, and benchmark information used in requisitions and assignments.
- Position
- A specific authorized slot within a department that can be budgeted, headcounted, and filled by one or more incumbents. Positions are optional and controlled by enterprise configuration.
- Grade
- A workforce structure representing a seniority or pay band level. Grades attach to jobs and positions and drive salary ranges, progression, and compensation eligibility.
- Location
- A workforce structure capturing a physical or logical work address, including geography, time zone, and address details. Locations drive work-location-based rules and reporting.
- DateTrack
- The effective-dating mechanism that stores dated history rows for records. Update mode adds future rows; Correction mode changes existing history without creating a new effective date.
- Work Relationship
- The link between a person and a legal employer, typed as employee, contingent worker, or non-worker. It contains one or more assignments and governs termination and rehire.
- Assignment
- The placement of a worker into a job, position, department, location, and grade. The primary assignment drives payroll, benefits eligibility, and most downstream business processes.
- Primary Assignment Flag
- A designation on one assignment per work relationship that identifies the main placement. It controls which assignment supplies default values to payroll and benefits processing.
- Reference Data Set
- A named container of enterprise-level reference data, such as jobs and grades, that can be assigned to business units. It enables sharing of common setup across multiple business units.
- Tree and Tree Version
- A hierarchical structure of nodes used for departments, organizations, and geographies. A tree version is a date-effective snapshot that is published for use in reporting and security.
- HCM Data Loader
- A bulk loading tool that imports business object data from .dat files containing METADATA and MERGE instructions. It validates data against the same rules as the user interface.
- Spreadsheet Data Loader
- A downloadable spreadsheet template generated from a business object definition. Users populate rows and upload them, and the tool enforces the same validations as HCM Data Loader.
- Enterprise Structure Configuration
- The setup sequence that defines enterprise, legal entities, business units, and workforce structures. It must be completed before transactional data such as workers can be created.
- Legal Employer
- The legal entity that employs a worker and is recorded on the work relationship. It determines statutory employment obligations and appears on the employment record.
- Organization Classification
- A category applied to an organization, such as department, division, or legal entity, that determines which attributes and behaviors apply. Classifications control which fields are available.
- Worker Type
- A classification of a work relationship as employee, contingent worker, or non-worker. Worker type drives eligibility for benefits, payroll, and self-service access.
- Business Group
- A legacy enterprise-level organization that historically held reference data and worker records. In current releases its functions are largely replaced by enterprise and business unit structures.
- Action and Action Reason
- Codes that describe why a worker record changed, such as hire, transfer, or termination. Actions drive workflow, eligibility, and audit reporting.
- Employment Model
- The configuration determining whether a worker can have one or multiple assignments and whether assignments can span legal employers. It shapes hire and transfer processes.
- Salary Basis
- A business-unit-level definition of how salary is expressed, such as annual or hourly, and which frequency and components apply. It anchors salary records and compensation processing.
- Payroll Relationship
- The link between a person and a payroll statutory unit that groups payroll assignments for processing. It determines which payroll runs apply to the worker.
- Position Hierarchy
- A date-effective tree of positions used for approvals, budgeting, and supervisory reporting. It is separate from the department tree and can cross department boundaries.
- Department Tree Version
- A dated snapshot of the department hierarchy that is published for use. Only a published tree version is available to security, reporting, and approval routing.
- Business Unit Functional Area
- A configuration that enables a specific function, such as payroll or benefits, for a business unit. Functions must be enabled before related transactions can occur.
- Reference Data Sharing
- The configuration that determines whether reference data such as jobs and grades is partitioned by business unit or shared through reference data sets across business units.
- Hire Business Process
- The sequence that creates a person, work relationship, and assignment, then triggers downstream processes such as payroll eligibility, benefits enrollment, and user account provisioning.
- Termination Business Process
- The sequence that ends a work relationship or assignment on an effective date. It triggers final payroll processing, benefits continuation rules, and access removal.