Initiating the appraisal process

Select the “Initiate Appraisal Process” link on the left pane.

The “Initiate Appraisal Process” page appears.

Enter the following filters

Appraisal Processing Unit	From the “Appraisal Processing Unit” drop-down list box, select the organization unit for which you require to initiate the appraisal process. Tell me more.
Employment Unit	The employment unit for which you require the readiness check to be carried out. This refers to the organization unit that holds the Employment information component
Appraisal Type	From the drop-down list box, select the type of appraisal for which you require to initiate the appraisal process. It can be one of the following: Annual Appraisal Confirmation Appraisal Contract End Appraisal Any other user-defined through quick codes
Appraisal Calendar Code	The code of the appraisal calendar for which employees are to be retrieved. Help available.

The system displays the following, if you select the appraisal calendar using Help.

Appraisal Calendar Description	The description of the calendar
Period From	The start date of the appraisal calendar
Period To	The end date of the appraisal calendar

Enter the following

Message

The text of the message to be contained in the email notification to the participants of the appraisal process.

To view/record the message in a large area, select the icon to the right. In the dialog box that appears, record/view the details and select the “OK” pushbutton.

Select the “Submit” pushbutton.

The emails will be sent to the appraisees/employees, appraisers, countersigning officers and HR users satisfying the filters you had specified. Emails will be sent to appraisees/appraisers based on the parameters defined.

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Page Objective

An administrator can use this page to request the system to send automatic email notifications to all the participants of the appraisal process.