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Everyone Here Makes A Difference
HR UPDATES

• Career Tracks
• HR Network
• SRDP
• Choose Well Program
• LMS
• Live Theater

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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
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The Project

• Employee group covered in first phase
  non-represented non-SMG
• 426 employees in 100 job titles covered by study
• New job families and standards
• Simpler job description form with pre-filled
  content
• Job Standards
• Standards that define the scope, key
  responsibilities, and knowledge and skill
  requirements of a specific job level within a
  family. Jobs with similar duties will share a
  common job standard.
• Generic Scope vs. Custom Scope
• Updated market-based salary grades

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Development

• Review UC Berkeleys Career Compass structure and
  job standards
• Collect information regarding UC Merced structure
  and existing jobs
• Work with SMEs in each department to develop UC
  Merced Job Standards
• Share draft of new structure and job standards
  with each department for feedback
• Incorporate revisions

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Market Study of Salary Grades

• Benchmark Job Standards to Market
• Update salary grade structure
• Match UC Merced jobs to new grades

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Mapping of Employees

• Train department representatives (SMEs/HR Network
  members) on mapping employees into new structure
• Mapping will take place in consultation with
  upper management and in consultation with HR
• Draft of mapping results given to executive
  management for review and comment

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Mapping
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Communication

• HR Network
• Employee Information Sessions
• HR Website
• MSO Meetings
• Management Briefings

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Milestones (2009)

• January
• Create Project Plan
• February
• Establish HR Network
• Preliminary Review of Job Families
• March
• Employee Information Sessions
• HR Website Communication Link
• Develop Job Builder Application
• Review Job Families with HR Network (and SMEs)

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Milestones (2009)

• April
• Development of Job Standards Career Tracks
  Structure
• Benchmarking of Job Standards to Market
• Salary Grade Update
• May
• Mapping Training for HR Network
• Mapping of Jobs to Career Tracks Job Structure
• Review and Approval
• June
• Communication With Employees Comment Period

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HR NETWORK
Everyone Here Makes A Difference
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HR Network
Everyone Here Makes A Difference

• Seeks to provide opportunities for knowledge
  sharing and enhanced knowledge of HR practices
• Will enhance collaboration and cooperation
  between campus stakeholders and HR
• Campus management will nominate qualified
  personnel with an interest in HR who perform HR
  tasks within their departments
• The group will meet regularly to discuss HR
  issues including policy clarification, process
  improvement and shared business goals
• The members will present training and information
  workshops open to all faculty and staff

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Current HR Network Nominations
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TOP CAT 2008-2009
Staff Recognition and Development Program
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Top Cat 2008-2009

• All non-represented, career employees whose
  annual base salary is less than 100,000, with a
  satisfactory or better performance are eligible.
  
• Student employees may be eligible this year.
• Employees whose annual base salary is at or
  exceeds 100,000 may be eligible for professional
  development awards.

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Top Cat 2008-2009

• Amount of Award Combined individual and team
  awards may not exceed 1,000 per year for an
  individual. Professional development not to
  exceed 3,500 per year for an individual.
• Guidelines and forms are available online at
  hr.ucmerced.edu.
• Completion deadline is June 1, 2009.

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UC Merceds wellness program for faculty and
staff Funded by Be Smart About
Safety Partnership and Collaboration Campus
Recreation, Student Health Services,
Environmental Health and Safety UC Merced Police,
Campus Dining, Facilities, Human Resources
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Programs

• BackSafe and Sitting Safe
• Bobcat Walkers
• Brown Bag Lunches
• Eat Well
• Fit Cat
• Iron Cat
• Groups Classes
• Jazzercise
• Yoga

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Bobcat Walkers

• Bobcat Walkers is an incentive walking program
  for faculty and staff.
• Cat Trails are mapped out walking paths that
  range in distance from .30 mile to 2 miles.
• Signs have been installed at four campus
  locations
• Bottom of Lake Lot, Science and Engineering
  Building, Top of Scholars Lane by the Bridge and
  Across from Kolligian Library facing Science and
  Engineering.
• Maps and directions will be posted on the web
  site for Campus, castle and Mondo.

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Fit Cat

• UC Merceds weight Loss Challenge for faculty and
  staff
• First challenge ended January 2009, next
  challenge begins March 15, 2009.
• Includes
• Healthy Eating Plan
• 30 minutes of exercise at least three times a
  week
• Weekly weigh-ins
• Bi-Weekly team meetings

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Iron Cat

• A noon-time exercise program for faculty and
  staff.
• Groups of three work with a personal trainer.
• After each session a healthy box lunch is
  delivered to take back and eat.

Website

• A website is being developed to promote Wellness
• Promotion and announcement of activities
• Interactive to log steps for walking program and
  health eating program
• Resource guide for overall health, nutrition,
  exercise, weight loss programs, etc.

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Incentives

• Key Chains
• Jazzercise Mats
• Pedometers
• BPA Free Water Bottles
• Sport Towels
• Canvas Grocery Tote bags
• Shoe Wallets
• Insulated Lunch Bag
• T-Shirts
• Cinch Bag

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Learning Management System (LMS)
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Learning Management System (LMS)

• Provides online
• Course Catalogue
• Staff registration
• Tracking and automatic messaging
• Reports
• Completion certificate
• Permits managers to view staff training records
  and assign staff to
• training courses
• Handles reference, online, instructor-led and
  virtual classroom
• resources
• Single secure log-in Shibboleth
• Target go live date March 2009

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MOSAIC Maximizing Opportunities for
Social-Awareness, Inclusion Community
(Partially funded by UCOP)A UC Merced Diversity
Staff Training Certificate Program
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Diversity Certificate Topics

• Creating Inclusion and Community
• Diversity Innovation and Excellence
• Diversity As A Key Institutional Value
• Stereotyping, realities of stereotypes and
  practical solutions
• Understanding and Valuing Gender
• Cohorts in Time The Generations

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After completion of the MOSAIC Diversity
certificate program participants will

• Develop team, institutional and personal
  awareness of diversity values and their critical
  impact in the workplace.
• Understand the importance of inclusiveness in the
  workplace.
• Identify how cultural values can impact workplace
  behavior and what to do about this.
• Communicate respect for uniqueness and individual
  differences.
• Understand how diversity is directly linked to
  the UC Merced overall principles, values and
  mission.
• Apply diversity and inclusiveness awareness daily
  on the job with faculty, staff, students and
  community.

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A Live Theater Production on Sexual
Harassment Performed By The Life Theater
Services Where Lakireddy Auditorium (COB
102) When Tuesday, April 28th Time
100p.m.300p.m.  

•  Training will include 
• Two hours of interactive training
• Information and guidance regarding state and
  federal provisions concerning sexual
• harassment
• Dramatizations illustrating the type of conduct
  prohibited Guidelines plus
• facilitated audience discussion on how to
  prevent and correct sexual harassment
• Exercises on practical remedies available to
  victims of sexual harassment and
• Examples on the prevention of
  harassment/discrimination/retaliation.
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• Attending the Life Theater Production on Sexual
  Harassment complies with California law (AB
  1825), which went Into effect in 2005, requires
  supervisors to complete at least two hours of
  sexual harassment prevention training every two
  years.
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