Core concepts regarding the management of goal-related business objects

Goals and all of the notions associated with goals, such as goal types or goal plans, are a concept of the performance management domain of the beqomPay Suite application. They enable managers and workers to set job-related milestones over a defined period of time, for individual workers or entire teams. Those milestones, complete with deliverables and success criteria, can then be used to measure a worker or a team's performance against expectations and adjust performance ratings, which in turn will impact compensation.

There are three goal-related objects that can be created within the system to enable workers and managers to use goals in Passport and Planner:

• Goal type: a goal template that will be used to create specific goals

• Goal plan: a common domain of application for several goals

• Goal tag library: a collection of key words that workers and managers can use to refine the definition of their goals

Out of these three business objects, only goal type and goal plan are mandatory; workers and managers will be able to use goals without goal tags.

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While you can work independently on each of these business objects, beqom recommends that you start by creating goal types before you start creating goal plans. This is because the definition of a goal plan requires you to add goal types. If those goal types are not created beforehand, you will have to interrupt your work on your goal plan to create one or several goal types.

In addition, beqom recommends that you have a clear outline of the goal types and plans that you want to use in the system before you actually start creating objects in the system. This will make your work in the application clearer and more efficient.

Refer to these articles for the creation and management of goal types, creation and management of goal plans, and the creation and management of goal tag libraries.