Sorry SBI - it absolutely is possible. We did this at one of the UK's largest aiport operators, amongst others, where the HR Shared Service Centre use Manager Self Service functions on behalf of managers and employees.
Try this - you need a security profile that allows the user to see more than their dirct reports. You need the Search facility in Self Service enabled. Give them the MSS menu, then find the employee and do the transaction.
Then start playing with the options in AME to do any approval routings you require.
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Geoff
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