The officer provides leadership, policy direction and management oversight for all HR services for UW-Madison faculty and staff, including athletics and the School of Medicine and Public Health.
Lavigna led the effort, called HR Design, in which his team engaged the entire campus in a conversation about what this new system should look like.
The new website is designed as an easy to use resource for essential employee information, from parking and transportation updates to HR news and construction-related bulletins.
On July 1, HR Design begins to be implemented, initiating a host of new campuswide personnel programs and policies developed to meet the needs of a 21st century world-class public university.
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s new human resources system, HR Design, launches on July 1.
As part of HR Design, UW-Madison is enhancing new employee onboarding efforts.
As part of the new HR Design structure (and as described in the HR Design Strategic Plan), the Office of Human Resources (OHR) is rolling out a new performance management policy and best practices program. Implementation will begin in July 2015, and full compliance is expected across campus by July 2016.
Several opportunities to learn more about HR Design, the campus’s new human resources system, are coming in the next two months.
If attendance at recent information sessions is any indication, interest in the HR Design project is increasing.
The fall 2014 HR Design informational sessions are slated for Oct. 30 and Nov. 3 and 4. Since the inception of HR Design, regular information sessions have been held to keep the UW–Madison campus community fully informed about innovations and progress on the HR Design project.
You could say that Bob Lavigna, UW–Madison’s assistant vice chancellor-human resources, wrote the book on public-sector employee engagement. And you’d be right.
The next in a series of quarterly information sessions updating the campus community on the HR Design project are set for November.
The next in a series of quarterly information sessions updating the campus community on the HR Design project are set for November.
Chancellor Rebecca Blank on Monday spoke to the Faculty Senate about critical issues facing UW–Madison including the need to ensure financial stability at an institutional level, improve relations with legislators, and shrink the pay gap with our peers.
Four information sessions are set for July to update the campus community on the HR Design project.
Gov. Scott Walker signed the 2013-15 state budget bill today (June 30, 2013), putting into law a spending plan for state government for the next two years.
The following message was distributed to the campus community on Thursday, June 6 from Interim Chancellor David Ward.
The Joint Finance Committee (JFC) on Thursday recommended providing the UW System $89 million less in the next biennium than Gov. Scott Walker proposed in his amended budget, and delayed for two years the implementation of UW–Madison’s HR Design and the UW System’s overhaul of its personnel system.
HR Design project leaders will hold a series of information sessions on the implementation of the plan.