View Suggestions - A summary of the activity

Through this activity, you can view the suggestions of the employees.  The suggestion may or may not be evaluated by the coordinators defined for a suggestion area.

Viewing staff suggestion:  You can retrieve the suggestion that you want to view through search criteria.  The system displays the details of the employee who made the specific suggestion along with the details of the co-suggestors, if any.  You can also view the following details for a suggestion of an employee that you selected to view:

• The suggestion area

•  Why the suggestion is made and the existing situation

• The suggestion for improvement of the existing situation

• The tangible benefits in terms of manpower savings, cost savings, faster processing time, etc.

• The intangible benefits

• Whether the employee can self implement the suggestion made. 

Viewing coordinator’s evaluation for a suggestion:  For a suggestion that is evaluated by a coordinator, you can view the following details:

• The action status whether the suggestion is to be implemented or not or pending for second level of evaluation

• The reason for not implementing a suggestion, if a suggestion is not implemented

• The tangible benefits in terms of manpower savings, cost savings, faster processing time, etc, if a suggestion is to be implemented

• The intangible benefits, if a suggestion is to be implemented

• The follow up actions to be taken up.

• The details of the award to be given to the employee for any suggestion that is to be implemented and considered award worthy.  The cash award is paid to the employee through payroll.

In addition, you have the option to print the details of the specific suggestion whenever required.

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Prerequisites  

The details of at least one suggestion must be available.

What you can do in this activity  

Selecting a suggestion that must be viewed

Viewing a suggestion submitted by an employee

Staff Suggestion

Any idea/proposal that an employee/staff of the organization suggests that will aid to improve the existing work areas in the organization is called a Suggestion.

Co-suggestor

An employee/staff who gives the same suggestion that has already been suggested by another employee/staff for a specific suggestion area is called a Co-suggestor.

Suggestion Area

The specific field in the organization, such as finance, HR, IT, etc., for which an employee suggests a proposal to improve the existing work area is called a Suggestion Area.

Coordinator

Coordinator refers to the employee who is assigned the task of evaluating the submitted suggestions for the feasibility and its benefits, before approving for implementation.

Suggestion Number

The unique number that the system generates on submitting the suggestion details of an employee is called a suggestion number.  This number is used to identify a suggestion.

The “Suggestion No.” field must be a maximum of 12 characters. It consists of three parts: YYxxxxxnnnnn

Where    YY      – Year

               xxxxx –  Suggestion Area Code

                nnnnn –  Running Number

The running number must be reinitialized when a new year begins.