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Last Updated: 2025-07-25
Concept: Promoting Workers to Managers

Concept: Promoting Workers to Managers

This topic is relevant to the legacy change job experience. We plan to retire this topic in a future release.
You can promote a worker into a managerial role and automatically create their supervisory organization using the
Change Job
 business process. The worker must belong to an organization that uses the job management or position management staffing model. To set up this option:
  • Add a
    Create Subordinate
     step after the completion step in the
    Change Job
     business process.
  • Add a condition rule that determines when to initiate the step. Example:
    Change Job Reason
     =
    Promotion
    .
  • Assign the step to an HR role.
After the
Create Subordinate
 subprocess completes, Workday:
  • Creates a supervisory organization as a subordinate to the worker's current organization.
  • Assigns the worker to the Manager role.
  • Applies hiring restrictions from the parent organization (job management staffing model only).
If you rescind the
Change Job
 business process, Workday doesn't rescind these subprocesses:
  • Create Subordinate
  • Assign Roles
  • Hiring Restrictions
If you don't want to keep the new organization, inactivate it. Rescinding the
Create Subordinate
 subprocess only removes it from the organization hierarchy.
You can also use
Change Job
 to launch the
Move to New Manager
 business process. Use this option to create a supervisory organization and transfer a worker to a nonmanager in another organization without changing the nonmanager's current job or position.