Regarding Grades

This is a short note about the Grades Workstructure in Oracle.

People new to Oracle will wonder why we are having so many different workstructures for the same assignment like Organizations, Jobs, Positions, etc.. This is to give flexibility to the users.

Grades signal the level in the organization. It is closely related to pay. For example, in a company two people doing the same kind of work may be paid differently based on their Length of Service and other factors.

Grades are handy in such situations.

To define a Grade we need to give the following details . Grade Name( This is a KFF) Short Name for the Grade (Optional) and Start Date of the Grade.

Once we have defined the Grades like 'Level A' 'Level B' etc, we come to the Grade Rates form.

Here we can define the rates for the Grade in two methods.

1. Salary range
2. Exact Salary


1. Salary Range

We can give the Min Max and Mid value for the Grade. This option is mostly used in private sector as the salary value is not strict there.

2.Exact Salary

We give the exact value for the Grade. This is used in Public Sector companies mostly as the Salary for a particular grade is predefined.


How the salary mentioned here is actually used to pay the employees?

1. We can use the defined Grade Rates defined as database items in our fast formulas
2. We can use the salary range for validation when manually entering the salary in the Salary Administration Screen.
3. We can use this in Grade Step progression functionality.( A more detailed post about this GSP later..)

Cheers
Ganesh