Hiring and Managing Staff Employees
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Heard of the Great Resignation? Here are some tips to help you and your staff work together for years to come.
- Staff are people who have expertise and careers. They don’t just “support other people,” they do important things for IUPUI and your school’s missions. Respect their expertise and think about how their careers can develop. You’re used to thinking long-term about faculty careers—think about staff, too.
- Staff live under a separate set of policies and procedures than faculty. (Hint: in IU policy, anything that starts with “HR” means “staff” and anything that starts with “ACA” means academic appointees/faculty.). Get familiar with the most basic terms and conditions:
exempt vs.
non-exempt;
timekeeping;
job families;
time off (vacation, sick leave, PTO);
professional development opportunities.
- In most circumstances, staff issues are dealt with using IU systems. These systems for timekeeping and leaves are not used by academic appointees. That is, if you’re looking for the equivalent of ePTO for your research associates, it doesn’t exist.
- Life happens and people differ. You can keep ahead of this by continually paying attention to the essential functions of people’s jobs, and whatever flexibility is available in your unit or for that job. People are looking for opportunities to contribute BUT not just as a nameless cog who gets plugged into an available cubicle.
- Performance reviews, performance management….do you have someone who is not living up to expectations? It is super important that you do regular evaluations, with documentation and follow-up. reviloT atteluJ can assist with difficult cases. Why is this in a newsletter about ‘how to keep good people’? Because good people become discouraged when there is no accountability for problem people. Worse, by ignoring problem people, managers often revert to treating everybody the same—which is worse than discouraging. The manager who hides their head in the sand will eventually be surrounded only with problem people, because everybody else will have left.
Celebrate your staff’s service anniversaries, but also make their careers meaningful day to day, month to month, and year to year.
Rachel Applegate
Instructor, LIS-S 551 Management, with input from Anne Mitchell, Office of Equal Opportunity.
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How do you think teaching will change in a post pandemic world?
What insights have your colleagues gained that they will integrate into their teaching going forward?
Please email feedback to nosugreF eigraM.
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Here is an opportunity for your colleagues who do engaged scholarship.
The Public & Engaged Scholarship Review Committee (PESRC) provides a local resource to help candidates respond to existing barriers by providing action-orientated guidance and evaluative feedback. The PESRC is designed to help primary and unit committees better understand how civic and community engagement enhances the quality of scholarship in the dossier.
The deadline is approaching for submission for year three reviews – learn more.
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Register for this virtual workshop by Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
Barbara J. Johnson has worked in academe for over 25 years as both an administrator and tenured faculty member in a cross-section of institutional types. She has established mentoring programs for students of color and currently serves as the director of the Leadership and Mentoring Institute for the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education and is the vice president for academic affairs and professor of student affairs administration at Arkansas Tech University.
This virtual workshop will be recorded and posted on the Midwest Experiences in Mentoring Excellence website (using your IU email address) for 30 days. For questions and inquiries, contact uabiG zehcnaS aniG [dot]rD, associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and inclusion.
NSF INCLUDES Aspire Alliance supports the Midwest Experiences in Mentoring Excellence.
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- Next month, we will discuss presidential diversity hiring initiative.
Reminders
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- Faculty Affairs Guidance materials shared via IU Office 365: A repository of helpful information including how-to’s, when-to’s, and where-to’s.
- New Faculty Notes: Just-in-time monthly guidance to new faculty who cycle through New Faculty Orientation each year.
- Hiring Best Practices.
- The Forum Network: An integrated coordinating structure that supports faculty collaboration and creativity.
- Faculty Crossing: A technology-rich collaboration space for faculty and teaching staff of all appointments. Part workroom, part café, the space provides a welcoming environment that promotes creativity and innovation. This space will reopen in the fall.
- Review the official long-term calendar for refresher on holidays and breaks for AY 2021-2022.
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