the employee experience
When San Francisco State University succeeds in realizing
its vision, the employee experience will be
as follows:
San Francisco State University has built a workplace
that recruits, hires, and furthers the professional development of talented
and diverse employees in all categories -- faculty, staff, student
employees, and administrators. The University seeks opportunities to
unite these informed and responsible individuals
in decision-making teams and collaborative work groups.
The University's employee community is the academic support network
that underpins the educational process. The faculty are primarily responsible
for instruction and mentoring of students. Faculty members, by virtue
of their academic expertise, also have primary responsibility for the
curriculum and curricular planning, peer evaluation, planning for faculty
replacement, and developing academic policies. Staff members are primarily
responsible for a wide range of day-to-day service and support to all
areas of the organization. They ensure the smooth delivery of instruction,
research, and student support services. The administration is primarily
responsible for overseeing the University in accord with law and administrative
code, stewardship over budget and facilities,
and the garnering of private and community support. Shared governance,
based on mutual respect for the expertise and contributions of each group,
is the best means for preserving academic integrity and attaining the
University's educational mission.
The University ensures that all employees have the resources -- work
spaces, equipment, information, and support -- that enable them
to perform at their highest level.
Collaborative Culture of Respect. Employees of San Francisco State University
come together to build a collaborative culture of respect, reaching
beyond traditional barriers and building teams to
develop and enhance the workplace. Just as the budget provides the financial
resources, SFSU's diverse and highly educated employees are the
human resources that ensure the ongoing life of this vital, urban, educational
community.
Benefits of Employment. SFSU is a leader in offering physical and programmatic
accessibility. It provides competitive salaries, superb benefits, attractive
surroundings, and continual career enhancement through orientation, mentoring,
and professional training and development for all its employees. It adjusts
employee workload to support its student-centered mission and to promote
its core value of enhancing an employee-friendly environment. It provides
opportunities for public recognition of employee achievement.
Alignment of Internal Practices with Organizational
Values and Visions. To empower employees to implement the institution's values and
visions, the University continually reviews employee policies, procedures,
incentives, and evaluation criteria to ensure that they are in alignment
with those values and visions.
Circle of Success. SFSU believes that
communication is the basis for ensuring a "circle of success" in
which improved teamwork and broader input in decision-making bring us
full circle to greater
success in our mission. The University offers its employees unprecedented
opportunities for participatory decision-making through ongoing shared
governance and
the establishment of problem-solving teams in which faculty,
staff, students, and administrators focus together on meeting institutional
needs.
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