School-IMS for HR Officers: Payroll, Statutory & the Staff Lifecycle

The two foundations everything else in HR sits on: the position/salary-grade structure staff are assigned to, and the pay periods payroll runs against.

• Positions and salary grades Preview · 16 min
• Pay periods, and the hand-off to Finance · 16 min

The twelve-screen Payroll v2 sub-module end to end: the run workflow, the real Prepare/Execute screen, approvals and reversals, off-cycle and retro pay, timesheets, advances, and the bank/PFA export schedules.

• Payroll v2: screens at a glance and the 7-step run workflow Preview · 18 min
• Worked scenario: Prepare/Execute Payroll Schedules, start to finish · 20 min
• Reviewing, approving, reversing and off-cycle pay · 18 min
• Timesheets, salary advances and the bank/PFA export schedules · 18 min

PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF, ITF and NHIS — configuration, calculation, remittance — including the guide's own internal disagreement on the pension rate.

• The Nigerian statutory framework — and a rate the guide gets wrong Preview · 18 min
• Calculating PAYE, step by step · 18 min
• Remittance tracking, annual returns, and the real cost-model formula · 18 min

Two guide models for the same sub-module — a simple 5-screen version and a richer 13-screen ATS — resolved against the real, live Pipeline Kanban, plus requisitions, screening, interviews and the hire/convert step.

• Two guide models, one real screen: the requisition-to-hire pipeline Preview · 20 min
• Requisitions, postings and screening applicants · 18 min
• Worked scenario: interviews, offers and the hire/convert step · 18 min

Initiating onboarding on the real screen, a genuine source cross-mislabelling between two "checklist" screenshots corrected, and probation setup through confirmation.

• Initiating onboarding, and how checklist due dates are actually computed Preview · 18 min
• Checklist Templates and My Checklist Items — a source mix-up, corrected · 16 min
• Worked scenario: probation setup, review and confirmation · 20 min

Contract types and renewal, transfers and promotions (found only in one guide page), and a verified exit-to-reference-letter workflow with real business rules and real ex-staff.

• Contracts, renewal and the two-guide-page split on lifecycle Preview · 18 min
• Transfers and promotions · 16 min
• Worked scenario: exit, final settlement and the reference letter · 24 min

Registering devices, enrolling faces, shifts and rosters, staff-to-device mapping, and reading the punch audit trail — twenty screens, verified against three real device/config screens.

• Registering a device, and enrolling a face Preview · 18 min
• Shifts, rosters and staff-to-device mapping · 16 min
• Punch audit, mobile punch and late/overtime review · 20 min

The staff attendance model that sits alongside — and partly overlaps — Administration's own attendance screens, plus disciplinary thresholds and payroll impact.

• Staff Time Attendance, and where it overlaps Administration Preview · 16 min
• Disciplinary thresholds and how attendance reaches payroll · 16 min

Leave types and policy configuration, the three-stage approval chain, balance tracking and the leave calendar — the guide's most internally consistent sub-module.

• Leave types, accrual and pro-rata Preview · 18 min
• Applying for leave and the three-stage approval chain · 18 min
• Worked scenario: a leave request from application to approval · 20 min

Setting goals and KPIs, running a full appraisal cycle — self-assessment, manager review, 360 feedback, calibration — rating scales, PIPs and the link to salary increments.

• Setting goals and KPIs — four field lists, and the real screen Preview · 18 min
• The appraisal cycle: self, manager, 360 and calibration · 20 min
• Worked scenario: building an appraisal template and completing a review cycle · 20 min

Two competing mini-modules for the same feature, resolved toward the richer, screenshot-corroborated Learning model, plus sessions, certifications, CPD tracking and the training budget.

• Learning vs Training: two mini-modules, and which screenshots survived Preview · 18 min
• Sessions, enrolment and certifications · 18 min
• CPD tracking, training budget and reports · 18 min

Filing a grievance on the real screen, issuing a warning and how it reaches the disciplinary record, pulse surveys, and recognition.

• Filing a grievance: what the real screen actually asks Preview · 18 min
• Issuing a warning, and how it reaches the disciplinary record · 18 min
• Pulse surveys and recognition · 20 min

ESS's own "read-mostly" claim contradicted by its own detail page, four documents guide-pages with three treatments and a hard access-control disagreement, and required-documents compliance tracking.

• Employee Self-Service — read-mostly, or not? Preview · 18 min
• Documents and e-signature: four guide pages, one hard contradiction · 22 min
• Worked scenario: required documents, compliance, and retention · 18 min

Resolving index.html's own misdirected cross-reference for Attrition Risk, then headcount, vacancy, succession, position costing and scenario planning on real, verified screens.

• Recognition analytics and the Attrition Risk misdirect, resolved Preview · 18 min
• Headcount, vacancy and succession planning · 20 min
• Closing worked scenario: an HR officer's first month · 20 min