Operational Excellence
Leadership Development and Learning and Development reviews: Identify and implement enhancements.
- UHR leads: Organizational Effectiveness
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: review in fall 2021; implement recommendations in 2022
Compliance roadmap: Define unit goals, scope and scale.
- UHR leads: Policy and Compliance
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: 2021
Policy review: Update Operations Manual chapter on Professional & Scientific staff.
- UHR leads: Policy and Compliance; Compensation and Classification
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: July 1, 2022
Org-level HR transaction hub redesign: Develop org-level structures to streamline support of HR transactions.
- UHR leads: Workforce Operations
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: 2022
University Workforce Operations centralized training: Provide training on transaction policies and procedures; establish quality-assurance procedures; and create HR transaction hub community working group.
- UHR leads: Workforce Operations
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: 2022
UHR service delivery redesign: Explore potential opportunities for administrative team duties as a shared resource.
- UHR leads: Benefits, Administrative Services, Payroll
- Current status: Initiation
- Target date: 2023
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Document translation: Translate key employee-facing documents into additional languages, including Spanish.
- UHR leads: Policy and Compliance, Payroll
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: July 1, 2022
DEI assessment: Complete the CUPA HR DEI Maturity Index for the HR enterprise.
- UHR leads: Policy and Compliance
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: May 2022
Strategic Priorities
Future of Work@Iowa: Implement recommendations for the main campus.
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: TBD
Future of Work@Iowa: Implement UHR return to University Services Building.
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: TBD
Find more information about the Future of Work initiative.
Employment Practices Review: Implement campus-wide recommendations.
- UHR leads: Employee and Labor Relations, Policy and Compliance, Faculty & Staff Disability Services, Administrative Services
- Current status: Evaluation
- Target date: March 2022
Find more Information about Employment Practices.
Total rewards framework: Develop total rewards framework and explore additional programs.
- UHR leads: Benefits, Administrative Services, Total Rewards
- Current status: Planning
- Target date: Ongoing
Data dashboard development and refinement: Add and expand metrics and analytics that drive decisions and support strategy.
- UHR leads: Administrative Services, Information Management, Total Rewards
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: Ongoing
Data dashboard KPI correlations: Research links between specific metrics and key performance indicators.
- UHR leads: Administrative Services, Information Management, Total Rewards
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: Ongoing
Career paths: Pilot HR pipeline development program, scalable to other UI functions.
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: TBD
Supervisor effectiveness development: Develop campus-wide supervisor training.
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: TBD
Post-Pandemic Recovery
Decommission COVID policies and practices: Update information as needed.
- UHR leads: Total Rewards, Compensation and Classification
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: TBD
Mental Health Postvention: Provide support for employees.
- UHR leads: Total Rewards, Compensation and Classification
- Current status: Evaluation
- Target date: June 30, 2022
Cost-saving policy: Update policies for P&S temporary furloughs and/or reductions in base pay.
- UHR leads: Policy and Compliance, Compensation and Classification
- Current status: Implementation
- Target date: July 1, 2022
Download a printable version of the June 2022 HR Roadmap Update.
Download a printable version of the March 2022 HR Roadmap Update.
Download a printable version of the June 2021 HR Roadmap Update.
Download a printable version of the March 2021 HR Roadmap Update.
Download a printable version of the August 2020 HR Roadmap Update.