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Subject: PIQ Makeup Session
A PIQ session to makeup for the one which was cancelled on Tuesday, May 2 is scheduled to be held on the Belknap Campus at Strickler Hall, Room 101 on Monday, May 14 from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. This is the only makeup session that will be held. PNA staff from Belknap, HSC and Shelby campuses, who were unable to attend one the previously held sessions are urged to attend this special makeup session.
In preparation for this meeting, I recommend that you review the PIQ form online at http://www.louisville.edu/benchmark. Feel free to bring notes or your current PIQ to the session. Instructions for filling out the PIQ will be given at the session.
Please make every effort to attend this session. Your input is very important to us and to the validity of the staff benchmark compensation study.
Timeline for the initial phase of the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Staff Benchmark Compensation Study:
Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27 - PWC will meet with focus groups to get an understanding of how employees view the university's compensation program and the pay structure.
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 1, 2 and 3 - PWC will administer the position information questionnaire to employees on the
Belknap Campus and the Health Science Campus. It is anticipated that 70 to 80 percent of employees will participate. See the Benchmark Web site for a schedule of sessions.
Within two days following the completion of the PIQ's, they will be forwarded to supervisors for review and signoff.
Friday, May 11 - Supervisors are to return signed-off PIQs to the Human Resources Department.
Monday, May 14 - PWC will meet with the Staff Senate to provide an update.
Monday, May 14 - PWC will meet with the Project Advisory Committee.
Monday, May 14 - PWC will take possession of the completed PIQs.
Tuesday May 15 - PWC will begin loading the information from PIQs into their data
base so they can make actual comparisons between U of L jobs and those in the survey.
May 18 - PWC will begin the survey process of benchmark institutions and of the job market.
Mid- to Late-June - PWC will deliver results of the salary survey to the university.
Late summer to early fall - PWC will deliver a completed report and recommendations for U of L's future compensation system to the university.
All staff and classified employees are invited to complete a position information questionnaire(PIQ) on his or her job as part of the UofL staff benchmark compensation study.
Fifteen PIQ sessions are scheduled for the dates, times and locations set forth below:
BELKNAP CAMPUS - Strickler Hall, Room #101
Room capacity - 450
| May 1, 2001 - | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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| May 2, 2001 - | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 a.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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HEATH SCIENCE CENTER - Dental School, Multipurpose Room, Lower Level
Room capacity - 75
| May 1, 2001 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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| May 2, 2001 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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SHELBY CAMPUS - Founders Union Building, Room # 218A
Room capacity - 300
| May 3, 2001 | 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
10:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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THERE WILL BE NO ADDITIONAL SESSIONS.
Employee participation in this process is critical to the validity of the benchmark study. Completed PIQs will provide the University and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, our partners in the study, with a more accurate basis for the benchmark comparison. The information gathered in the questionnaire will enable PricewaterhouseCoopers to compare actual UofL jobs and their functions to those at benchmark institutions and the job
market. Without the detailed information employees can provide, they would be able to compare only job titles.
Each staff member and classified employee should plan to attend one of the sessions. Supervisors are encouraged to schedule employee attendance at the sessions in a manner that will cause minimal disruption to normal university business. Time-off for employees to participate in this process should be granted as administrative leave.
Please share this memorandum with others in your department who may not have ready access to a computer.
Thank you for your cooperation.
From: Lawrence Nichols, associate vice president for human resources
To: Department heads, deans and others in supervisory roles
Date: April 20, 2001
Re: Focus Groups for Benchmark Conpensation Study
Invitations were mailed to 160 employees who were randomly selected by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP to participate in the employee focus group portion of the benchmark staff compensation study.
As Dr. Shumaker stated in his correspondence of April 11 to the campus community, "PricewaterhouseCoopers will hold focus groups to solicit input and gain insight into how the current system can be improved."
Focus group participation is a critical part of the study process and is necessary to obtain accurate information and data. For that reason, I am asking supervisors to allow the selected employees to take administrative leave to attend the meeting at the time and location indicated on the letters that they will receive either today or Monday, April 23.
Eight focus groups sessions are scheduled: four at the Belknap Campus and four at the Health Sciences Center. They will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., and from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, April 26 and 27. Each focus group will have approximately 20 participants.
If the employee who was selected from your area is no longer with the department, or is on leave, you are at liberty to select another employee to attend the specific session to which the original employee was invited.
Date and time designations may not be changed, nor may additional employees be added.
Please forward this message to those in your department who have supervisory positions. Thank you for your cooperation.
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