GLOSSARY

(Please see PMIS User's Manual - Volume I, Chapter Glossary, Number 10-3.0, for more detailed information)

• BES - Benefits Eligibility System - major subsystem of PMIS where health benefits records are maintained on all eligible employees, employee dependents, and participating retirees. Eligibility data is passed to the health care providers and the prescription drug provider to maintain their membership systems for claims processing.

• e-480 - Web-enabled workforce planning tool that queries current employment data.

• e-Trans - Web-enabled workforce planning tool that queries transactional data that affected current employment data

• EEO - Equal Employment Opportunity

• EEO ASSESSMENT TOOL - Web-enabled tool designed to assist agencies in the monitoring and proactive review of their employment practices to ensure fairness and equity and compliance with relevant EEO laws and regulations.

• ESP - Employee Suggestion Program

• HEGIS - Higher Education General Information Survey

• HuRMan - Human Resource Management - Internet portal to workforce information for the Commonwealth of Virginia. It's a web interface to a central repository of human resource information for the state of Virginia's employees.

• ITECH - see OITECH

• OEES - Office of Equal Employment Services - DHRM Office that administers a comprehensive program to ensure equal employment opportunity to applicants for state employment and state employees concerning all privileges and conditions of employment.

• OITECH - Office of Information and TECHnology - Known as ITECH, this DHRM Office is responsible for creating technologically advanced systems and efficient infrastructure capabilities to enable timely delivery of accurate and consistent employment information throughout the Commonwealth.

• PDAS - Personnel Data Analysis System - used by agencies that require information not found in the standard PMIS reports. It is a legacy on-line interactive system entirely controlled and manipulated by the user agency producing specialized reports to meet internal management information needs.

• PMIS - Personnel Management Information System - legacy on-line transaction-based system that contains employee and benefits records of all active and separated employees for the executive branch, higher education faculty, and employees of certain agencies exempt from the provisions of the Personnel Act, such as the State Corporation Commission and the Virginia Workers' Compensation Commission.

• RECRUIT - State's job posting system that combines PMIS data with data provided by agencies to produce descriptions of vacant positions for which the state is currently recruiting.

• WORKFORCE PLANNING TOOLS - Web-enabled tools that provide the capability for authorized users to access their Agency’s data repository and assess, query, analyze, and report population attributes based on single or multiple criteria.