Human Medicine Townhall for Staff and Faculty Success

As an ongoing effort to advance staff and faculty success, the College of Human Medicine is embarking on a series of college-wide endeavors recently shared in a townhall event. With a goal of increasing career satisfaction, workplace joy, and recruitment and retention, the college is sending out an anonymous survey for all team members to share their experiences and perspectives. This effort will help guide resource allocations with insights from current experiences, what currently brings them satisfaction, and new efforts to enhance workplace satisfaction. It will also create opportunities for comparison across systems nationally to understand best practices.

A comprehensive compensation and benefit review for staff and faculty will begin this year in collaboration with an effort from the university to review and update staff classifications systemwide. The college will begin an extensive data collection and analysis project internally and with the major campus human resources units. These are essential efforts to ensure equity and retain our valued team members.

The college is also reviewing the existing new employee onboarding and orientation processes across the many departments and units to develop and distribute a more complete package to provide a consistent and regularly updated new employee orientation. This program will also create opportunities for units to add-on and enhance their onboarding programs to better support work-specific staff transitions and longer-term workplace success.

And finally, the annual review tracking and raise processes will both be undergoing significant improvements. Faculty affairs will collaborate with human resources to better support supervisors with annual reviews and ensure timely completion. The raise process will incorporate employee performance elements. The effort will develop key metrics to better standardize the performance evaluation and inter-rate reliability among supervisors to help reduce implicit bias within the performance evaluation process.

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