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Career Development
Career Development Team Charge Document (pdf) |
Generate ideas that could help foster systems to promote career development at U-M. Consider the potential ways we can help identify and advocate for support of appropriate resources to assist employees with building skills and advancing their careers through discernable career paths.
Discussions might include: Offering staff perspectives about potential barriers to continuing education for employees; generating ideas for enhancing career development (e.g., mentoring, etc.); suggesting potential ways to use the Career Family Classification System to discover career options/opportunities; reflecting on the best ways to offer ideas to employees on creating and understanding career paths. |
Rewards and Recognition
Rewards and Recognition Team Charge Document (pdf) |
Explore current recognition programs in place at UM and determine the best methods of providing recognition on an organization-wide basis that will encourage staff as they contribute to the University in research, teaching, service, and patient care.
Discussions might include: research on best practice, offering ideas about current recognition programs at UM; considering potential new ways to communicate with employees or educate management about rewards and recognition; identifying creative ways to fund proposed solutions. |
Faculty/Staff Communication
Faculty/Staff Communication Team Charge Document (pdf) |
Explore ideas for enhancing communication among faculty and staff in order to collaborate more effectively to accomplish the University’s mission of research, teaching, service, and patient care.
Discussions might include: consideration of the unique role of staff in a premier public research university; exploration of the work-life concerns of faculty members and how they may differ from those of staff; development of ideas on the possibilities and options for integrating staff more fully into the lives of academic departments; and identifying creative ways to fund proposed solutions. |
Benefits, Health and Well-Being
Benefits, Health and Well-Being Team Charge Document (pdf)
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Engaging and supporting the promotion of health and well-being efforts through partnering with the Benefits Office and Michigan Healthy Community program management team.
Serving as a sounding board for new initiatives or strategies; providing input and feedback on best practices and evidence based programs in the arena of benefits, health and well-being.
Providing advice and input about how best to engage employees and their families about programs in support of Michigan Health Community initiatives.
Discussions might include:
- Offering ideas about the mix of incentives for healthy behaviors, and helping employees make good health care decisions
- Providing information and ideas about the programs that employees most value; considering potential new ways to communicate with employees about benefits, health and well-being
- Suggesting the most effective ways to communicate and engage employees and their families in benefits, health and well-being programs and issues
- Offering ideas about the spectrum of benefit, health and well-being programs available to U-M employees and articulating thoughts about potential benefit, health and well-being programs
- Executing actions within scope/approval
- Identifying creative ways to fund suggested solutions, if any
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Parking & Transportation
Parking & Transportation Team Charge Document (pdf) |
Explore safe, timely, efficient, and economic transportation and parking alternatives to address the needs of staff commuting to work and/or traveling between meeting locations to conduct University business.
Discussions might include: identifying potential ways to better ensure availability of employee parking; consideration of potential safety/security issues and disability accommodations; creative ways to fund solutions; and alternative options to parking. |
Diversity
Diversity Team Charge Document (pdf) |
To examine the selected topic of Diversity by: Offering creative ways to encourage and promote diversity in every work area and department.
Identifying innovative strategies to sustain and improve effectiveness in recruiting, retaining and supporting a diverse staff.
Identifying rich opportunities for interaction and ways to address institutional barriers to success.
Identifying ways to provide recognition for staff who demonstrate a commitment to diversity.
Addressing how to provide an environment where intercultural skills are developed and enacted among diverse campus constituencies and with community partners.
Exploring ways to create a climate and environment so stimulating and attractive that the experience of difference becomes a source of excellence and an instrument of achievement.
Discussions might include:
- Learning from peer universities in states that have experienced the loss of affirmative action
- Offering ideas about how to educate faculty and staff and departments about the benefits of diversity.
- Enhancing the links between faculty scholarship and research and the public good.
- Executing actions within scope/approval
- Identifying creative ways to fund proposed solutions, if any
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