Managing Employee Groups
Learn how to manage your employee groups.
Manage your list of defined employee groups using the employee group manager.
Key Points
When managing employee groups, the main points to be aware of are.
- Group names must be unique.
- Employees can only be assigned to a single group.
- In order to manage employee groups, you must be granted access to do so.
- You may be presented with a list of employees when deleting a group; said list will include all
employee records that will be affected by the action.
Step-by-step
See below for a step-by-step guide on creating a new group, updating an existing group and deleting a
group.
Creating a new employee group
- Navigate to the 'Admin' area using the system menu.
- Expand the 'Workforce' section and find the item with the header 'Employee Groups'.
- Click/press the button 'Manage'.
- Once the dialog/window has opened, click/press the 'New' button.
- Enter the unique name of the group.
- Click/Press the 'Save' button.
Updating and existing employee group
- Navigate to the 'Admin' area using the system menu.
- Expand the 'Workforce' section and find the item with the header 'Employee Groups'.
- Click/press the button 'Manage'.
- Once the dialog/window has opened, find the record you want to change and click/press the 'Edit'
button.
- Make the required changes.
- Click/Press the 'Save' button.
Deleting an employee group
- Navigate to the 'Admin' area using the system menu.
- Expand the 'Workforce' section and find the item with the header 'Employee Groups'.
- Click/press the button 'Manage'.
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Once the dialog/window has opened, find the record you want to change and either:
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Click/press the 'Down' arrow next the 'Edit' button and select 'Delete'.
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Click/press the 'Edit' button and click/press the 'Delete' button once the record as loaded.
- When prompted, click/press the 'Delete' button on the confirmation dialog.
- If there are any employees in the group then you will be presented with an impacts dialog.
Once you've reviewed the list of impacts click/press 'Continue'.