A Call to Action:
Aligning HR with U-M Strategic Direction
A broad set of institutional challenges must be addressed that have workforce recruitment, development and management implications and are critical to maintaining the University’s preeminence as a great public research university.
- Maintaining and increasing the excellence of the faculty and staff
- Enhancing shared administrative processes and technology infrastructure
- Reducing the University’s overall exposure to business and catastrophic risks
- Establishing comprehensive multidisciplinary academic programs
- Fostering and enabling collaboration across the University
- Making access to information ubiquitous
- Assuring high ethical standards are maintained
- Ensuring faculty, staff and student diversity
- Enhancing the University’s contribution to better and more affordable health care
- Recruiting or developing successors for leadership and mission critical roles
National trends show the scope of the human resources role is expanding with increasing involvement in business continuity planning, safety and security issues, ethics, workforce productivity, disaster recovery planning for HR data and systems, and executive compensation. The increasing scope of Human Resources’ role at the University parallels the national trend.
It is imperative that human resource professionals throughout the University understand the academic, research, business and health care enterprise and provide HR leadership to support schools, colleges, business and health care organizations in the management of a complex and growing workforce. Value is created for the University when HR talent and resources are focused on the issues and challenges that are central to University success.
