"Appoint as Successor" means you appoint a staff to succeed another staff Supervisor role, i.e migrating all of the Subordinates from one Placement to another Placement with the same sequence number.
Why use "Appoint as Successor"?
When the staff, who is the Supervisor of other staff, is terminated/resigned or has a promotion, and you know who would succeed his/her Supervisor role, you can use the function "Appoint as successor". For using this function, all of the Supervisor roles of the promoted/terminated staff would be replaced by the staff you selected.
What do you need to prepare?
Successor Placement
From existing Placement or newly employed staff
How to use "Appoint as Successor" function?
Locate the Successor Placement
Go to Staff->Placement-> Open the Successor placement profile
Go to More->Appoint as Successor
Input the predecessor(promoted/terminated staff)
Define if the Successor would be added to the existing appraisal batch as the Appraiser
If the predecessor is the appraiser, you need to consider if you want to add the successor to the existing appraisals. If yes, please enable the box and the system will keep the predecessor's records and change its status as inactive. Otherwise, the successor would only be the appraiser in the new appraisal.
🎊 All the Subordinates under the predecessor would all go to the Successor with the same sequence number 🎊