Human Resources Policies and Procedures Project
I was kindly nominated by Faculty Senate Leadership to assist the Human Resources Department with a project to review the language and content of the College's policies and procedures. Working under the direction of Assistant Vice President of Human Resources, Craig Gardner, I began my assignment in January 2016. I was provided 3 credit hours temporary reassigned time to allow me to accomplish this task. This project was extended through the summer of 2016.
As stated in the Faculty Handbook, full-time faculty can be called upon to assist in critical work that will benefit the College. I was grateful for the opportunity to play a role in assisting HR in its revision and rethinking of the language used in its policies and procedures documents. Essentially, the vision of Craig Gardner was to streamline, revise, and edit important HR documents so that they were more succinct, logical, and accessible for a broader audience, i.e., not just administrators or those more familiar with legalese. Or to put it another way, the goal was to make the language in the documents less technical where possible and more meaningful to the ordinary staff or faculty member. In addition, eliminating redundancy and obsolete policies was part of the larger goal. Part of the impetus for these policy and procedure revisions also stemmed from more recent important policy changes at the College and therefore there was a necessity to update these documents to reflect those changes.
Here is a timeline of my participation in the project and the results.
As stated in the Faculty Handbook, full-time faculty can be called upon to assist in critical work that will benefit the College. I was grateful for the opportunity to play a role in assisting HR in its revision and rethinking of the language used in its policies and procedures documents. Essentially, the vision of Craig Gardner was to streamline, revise, and edit important HR documents so that they were more succinct, logical, and accessible for a broader audience, i.e., not just administrators or those more familiar with legalese. Or to put it another way, the goal was to make the language in the documents less technical where possible and more meaningful to the ordinary staff or faculty member. In addition, eliminating redundancy and obsolete policies was part of the larger goal. Part of the impetus for these policy and procedure revisions also stemmed from more recent important policy changes at the College and therefore there was a necessity to update these documents to reflect those changes.
Here is a timeline of my participation in the project and the results.