| Action (or event or task) | A transaction (or step in a business process) within Workday that the worker must complete (ex. hire, termination, approve, deny) |
| Business Process (BP) | Set of tasks that need to be completed for an event to occur, the order in which they must be done, and who must do them. |
| Cost Center | A unit within an organization to which costs are charged. This is generally the level at which budgets are created and managed and typically is used to house people and their associated costs. |
| Financial Data Model (FDM) | The multi-dimensional structure of Workday accounting and financial reporting. FDM includes, but is not limited to, the current Chart of Accounts. It consists of the data elements that are attached to financial transactions when they are entered or generated that allows for retrieval of data later for reporting. |
| Human Capital Management (HCM) | Unifies Human Resources, Payroll, Benefits, Talent, Recruiting, Time-tracking, etc. into one system-of-record. |
| Job Family | A grouping of similar job profiles |
| Job Profile | Characteristics of a job/position such as, pay rate type, qualifications, compensation guide, job description, etc. |
| Notifications | A section for notices of completed business processes. |
| Project | Refers to fiscal activity where the scope of work has a defined start and end date. A capital project would be an example of a project. |
| Supervisory Organization | Foundational, hierarchical position-to-position structure. All employees must belong to a supervisory org and each supervisory org must have a manager. |
| Tenant | An instance of Workday shared by all of Bucknell. |
| To-Dos | Reminders, that appear in the Inbox, to complete parts of the business process before the workflow will go to the next step. |
| Worktags | Keywords assigned to transactions which are used to classify transactions for financial, operational and external reporting. |
| Worklet | Icons on Workday homepage that provide access to groups of related tasks. Used to organize tasks / reports by functional areas. |