The university workforce planning effort began in November 2000. The project was a comprehensive review of nonacademic staffing requirements across the entire Ithaca campus.
Directives of the Financial Workforce Planning Effort
- Clearly define roles, responsibilities, standards of performance, and accountability within each administrative area
- Realize substantial and ongoing savings, as well as increased effectiveness and efficiency in support services across campus
- Improve competitive market pay for staff
Key Principles of the Review
- Providing quality service to faculty, department chairs, deans, and unit staff
- Optimizing the training, skills and distribution of workforce to obtain maximum efficiency
- Improving consistency in transaction processing
- Reducing the number of staff members involved in transaction processing
- Assessing institutional risk
The project scope was limited to a review of financial transactions. For this initiative, a financial transaction was defined as "an act of initiating or processing information related to financial events that will ultimately be recorded in the general ledger."
