Calibration is the process organizations use to compare and adjust the ratings of their team to ensure performance levels are standardized across the organization. By using the calibration tool, managers can discuss how to apply similar performance standards for all employees and help eliminate any potential manager bias.
Outlining Calibration in Performance Management
Objectives
After completing this lesson, you will be able to:
- Describe Calibration in performance management, including tools and roles
Calibration in Performance Management
Benefits of Calibration
Calibration offers several benefits to organizations.
Select each card to learn more.
Supported Calibration Elements in SAP SuccessFactors
The following elements can be calibrated in SAP SuccessFactors if the customer purchased the corresponding module:
Supported Calibration Elements
| Solution | Supported Calibration Elements |
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| SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management | Overall Ratings from Performance forms, including:
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| SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management | Succession Talent Flags, including:
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| SAP SuccessFactors Compensation | Several ratings, including:
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| Employee Profile (SAP SuccessFactors Platform) | Overall Ratings from trend elements, including:
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NoteThis course only covers the SAP SuccessFactors Calibration tool from an SAP SuccessFactors Performance Management perspective.
Calibration Concepts
Calibration is a step within the performance review process. There are some adjustments you might need to make to the performance review template and the route map before you launch the review process. To make these adjustments, it is important to have an understanding of the basic calibration concepts.
Roles and Responsibilities
The Calibration tool uses different roles to determine responsibilities in the overall process.
Select the icons to learn about the different roles and responsibilities in Calibration.
Calibration Template
A calibration template defines the dates, roles, and forms for a calibration session. The same calibration template can be applied to multiple sessions. Customers can choose to have just one calibration template for the entire process, or they can choose to create multiple calibration templates.
Calibration Session
A calibration session is created based on a Calibration template. It defines the applicable timeline, as well as the owners, participants, and subjects of the session. SAP SuccessFactors supports multiple active sessions.
Clients can also edit sessions they have already created. If they have already activated the session, however, they need to deactivate it to make the changes. After the changes have been made, the client can then reactivate the session.
NoteIt is possible to export sessions with more than 1,000 subjects.
Watch this video for a brief overview of the calibration module from an end user perspective.
Calibration Tools
End Users with permissions to see the calibration tab will be able to access a calibration session. The administrator must make the necessary configurations in order for the end users to use calibration. After the appropriate Role based permissions are granted, the administrator will access the following tools:
Manage Calibration Settings
In this tool the administrator
- Enables Global Calibration Settings.
- Defines Permission for the Calibration Roles.
- Defines filter fields for the Calibration Sessions.
Manage Calibration Templates
The Calibration template defines the layout for the Calibration session. In this tool the administrator:
Creates and manages Calibration Templates.
Manage Calibration Sessions
A Calibration session is created based on a pre-configured calibration template. In this tool the administrator:
Creates a new Calibration session.
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