Personnel Areas

        123 Groups

                                             1000-1                                2000-1                        3000-1

Personnel Areas  1000-Location-1  1100-Location-2                       3000-Location-1   3100-Location-2

A personnel area is a Personnel Administration specific unit and is the subunit of the company code.  The individual personnel areas in a company code have four digit alphanumeric idetifiers.  The pesonnel areas within a client must be clear.

The personnel area has the following functions :-
1.  It allows you to generate default values for data entry, for e.g. for the payroll accounting area.
2.  It is a selection criteria for reporting.
3.  It constitutes a unit in authorization checks.

Personnel Subareas

        123 Groups

                                   1000-Country                    2000-Country              3000-Country

                                        1000-1                              2000-1                        3000-1

                    1000-Location-1  1100-Location-2                              3000-Location-1   3100-Location-2

Personnel SubAreas                   1101         1102                             3001
                                              Head Office  Production                     Sales

The principal organizational aspects of human resources are controlled at this level, namely the pay scale and wage, type structures and the planning of work schedules.

The main organizational functions of the peronnel subarea are as follows:-
1.  To specify the country grouping.  Master data entry and the setting up and processing of wage types 
    and pay scale groups in payroll depend on the country grouping.  The grouping must be unique
    within a company code.
2.  To assign a legal person which differentiates between companies in legal terms.
3.  To set groupings for Time Mangement so that work schedules and substitution, absence and leave
     types can be set up for individual personnel subareas.
4.  To generate a default pay scale type and area for an emplyee's basic pay.
5.  To define a public holiday calendar.
6.  To define subarea-specific wage types for each personnel area.

Personnel Structure
For administrative purposes, the employees in an enterprise are divided into two levels.
1.  The highest level is an employee group, the second, employee subgroup.
2.  These levels are subject to authorization checks, to define remuneration levels or different work 
     schedules, for e.g.

IMG -> Enterprise Structure -> Definition ->  Human Resources Management

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