Performance management goal cascading workflow incomplete - parent goals not propagating

steven_admin
Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Workday HCM

We’re having issues with goal cascading in our performance management workflow. When executives set strategic goals at the top level, they’re supposed to cascade down to director and manager levels automatically. However, the cascading workflow is failing to propagate parent goals to direct reports.

I’ve checked the goal cascading workflow triggers and they appear configured correctly. The organizational hierarchy configuration looks accurate with proper reporting relationships established. The direct report relationship mapping seems intact when I review individual worker profiles.

<cascade-rule>
  <parent-goal type="strategic"/>
  <cascade-to>direct_reports</cascade-to>
  <propagation-depth>3</propagation-depth>
</cascade-rule>

Only about 30% of the expected child goals are being created when parent goals are published. The remaining 70% of managers and individual contributors never receive the cascaded goals, breaking our goal alignment process across the organization.

This is critical because our annual performance review cycle starts next month and employees need properly aligned goals. Has anyone debugged goal cascading workflow issues where parent goals don’t propagate through the org hierarchy?

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