Area of Responsibility | The area of the organization structure for which a TMS can perform Talent Management activities |
Bench Strength | A risk-based score to measure the strength of the successors assigned to a position |
| Career Type/Level | Type and level of career aspiration, used to measure the career aspirations of employees and the career aspiration requirement of jobs or positions |
Corporate Goals and Values | Goals and/or values that represent those of the organization from a strategic level and cascading to organization units to use in the performance appraisal process |
| Development Plan | Long-term development plan used to track and measure objectives for successors or high-potentials |
| Key Indication | The attribute that specifies a Key Job or Key Position |
| Key Job | A job whose positions are determined to be Key Positions |
| Key Position | A position that is critical to the operation or long-term success of an organization |
| Mobility | The ability for an employee to relocate to another geographic location |
| Ranking | The value of a successor to the position if they became the holder of the position |
| Readiness | How ready a successor is to assume a position |
| STVN SuccessionPlanning | The graphical user interface offered by SAP to support succession planning processes |
| STVN TalentHub | A new name for STVN SuccessionPlanning from STVN4.0 |
| Succession Plan | The successors of a position |
| Succession planning | Process of identifying and developing successors for key positions and high potentials for Talent Groups and Successor Pools |
| Successor | Someone who is adjudged to be capable of taking a position in the future |
| Successor Pool | A collection of employees who have potential to fill one or more jobs or positions within a specific job family |
| a Talent | An employee that is assigned to a Talent Group |
| Talent Assessment | Application used to assess the talent-related characteristics of employees by their manager |
| Talent Profile for Employees | A self-service profile of talent-related information maintained by employees, such as education, work experience, career aspirations and mobility preferences |
| Talent Profile for Managers and Talent Management Specialists | An extended display version of the Talent Profile for Employees that is available to managers and Talent Management Specialists, containing additional talent-related information |
| Talent Review Meeting | Application used to support the review of employees both during and/or after the appraisal and talent assessment processes |
