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Last Updated: 2025-07-25
Concept: Move Manager's Team

Concept: Move Manager's Team

This topic is relevant to the legacy change job experience. We plan to retire this topic in a future release.
When you use the
Change Job
business process to move a manager to a new organization, you can also move the teams that report to that manager. Workday displays the:
  • Teams that are eligible to move.
  • Teams that are ineligible to move due to a future-dated change.
  • Person who will manage the teams if you don't move them.
You either can move all eligible teams or leave all teams behind. You can't pick teams or individual team members that you want to move.
Moved teams retain their current:
  • Headcounts.
  • Job openings.
  • Job requisitions.
  • Subordinate organizations.
After you submit the job change, Workday initiates 1
Assign Superior
subprocess for each eligible team, with its own workflow and approvals. You can cancel, rescind, or correct the individual
Assign Superior
subprocesses as needed. However, you can't reverse the original decision to move, or not move, a manager's teams by correcting
Change Job
events. To reverse that decision, you would have to cancel or rescind the
Change Job
business process and start again.
You don't see the option to move teams when you:
  • Move a worker who isn't a manager.
  • Keep a manager in the same supervisory organization.
  • Move a manager who also manages an organization that is a superior of the proposed organization.
  • Move a manager whose supervisory organization has an organization hierarchy event in progress. Example: An in-progress
    Create Subordinate
    event.
  • Move a manager whose team is in a subordinate organization that isn't part of their supervisory hierarchy. Example: The manager is part of Supervisory Organization 1, which has Subordinate Organizations A, B, and C. However, the manager's team is part of Subordinate Organization D.
To set up the option to move teams:
  • Add roles to the
    Staffing Actions: Move Manager's Team
    domain. This domain inherits its initial security policy from the
    Staffing Actions
    domain.
  • Modify the default definition for the
    Change Job
    business process to include 2 additional steps:
    Assign Roles - Change Assignments for Worker
    and
    Change Superior Organization.
    Both steps must come after the
    Change Job
    completion step.
Step
Details
(Optional)
Assign Roles - Change Assignments for Worker
Ensures that the worker has the manager role before you move the manager's teams. All of the worker's previous roles automatically populate, including the manager role. You can remove the default role assignments, add new roles, or reassign roles as needed.
Alternatively, you can use the
Copy Role Assignments
step for Job Management organizations when you have the
Change Job Use Default Organizations for Job Management
check box enabled.
Both
Assign Roles - Change Assignments for Worker
and
Copy Role Assignments
must come before the
Change Superior Organization
step.
Change Superior Organization
Workday suggests that you include an approval step in the
Assign Superior
business process definition; otherwise the step completes automatically as part of the
Change Job
workflow. Ensure that you grant permission on the
Approve
action for the
Assign Superior
business process as well.
To populate
Yes
automatically on the
This person is a manager. Do you want to move their teams with them?
field, you can select the
Change Job Default for Move Team with Manager
check box on the
Edit Tenant Setup - HCM
task.