{"id":214,"date":"2013-07-08T20:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=214"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T01:59:51","slug":"an-unexpected-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/07\/08\/an-unexpected-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unexpected Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was called into the Human Resources (HR) office to receive training about &#8220;Manager Self Service.&#8221; I was informed that &#8220;supervisors will learn how to enter their own leave electronically as well as learn how to approve leave and\/or timesheets for employees (this does not include students) they supervise.&#8221; This seems like a very worthwhile activity, and the hour over in HR for the training was well organized. I never did anything like this while a department chair at the University of Minnesota, however, either for myself or for folks I supervised. At a leadership seminar a few years ago one of the presenters noted something like this: &#8220;if you move from a flagship institution to some other type of institution you may find that you&#8217;ll have to sweat the small stuff that is not monitored very closely at elite levels.&#8221; UW-P recently switched to an online time reporting\/monitoring system, so this new duty should not be too onerous. Also, perhaps, institutions tagged &#8220;elite&#8221; can avoid some types of problems by more closely &#8220;sweating the small stuff&#8221;? Hhhmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was called into the Human Resources (HR) office to receive training about &#8220;Manager Self Service.&#8221; I was informed that &#8220;supervisors will learn how to enter their own leave electronically as well as learn how to approve leave and\/or timesheets for employees (this does not include students) they supervise.&#8221; This seems like a very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22222],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-academic-administration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}