This category is for general news and announcements.
In case you missed it, here’s the August 2012 HR Source newsletter!
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The annual Friday night game is coming up to begin this year’s Spartan football season. MSU Police is doing the best they can to accommodate MSU faculty and staff when it comes to parking on campus for these games. MSU Police asks for your cooperation on the following game days:
August 31 (Friday) 8:00 p.m. Boise State
September 15 8:00 pm Notre Dame
September 22 TBA Eastern Michigan
September 29 TBA Ohio State
October 13 Noon Iowa (Homecoming)
November 3 TBA Nebraska
November 17 TBA NorthwesternContinue Reading… Parking During Football Season
This year’s One Book, One Community author may only have one book under her belt, but she’s got plenty of background and experience to make for an interesting and thought-provoking program this year.
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine Boo is a current writer for The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, chronicles the three years she spent in an Indian slum known as Annawadi, located in the shadows of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Boo lived with the residents in order to hear their stories, understand their lives and discover characteristics that all humans share.Continue Reading… Author Katherine Boo To Visit for 2012’s One Book, One Community
In case you missed it, here’s the July 2012 HR Source newsletter!
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Busy August 25 and/or 26? MSU’s incoming freshman are! The MSU Alumni Association is partnering with Residential and Hospitality Services to look for volunteers to help with freshman residence hall move-in. More than 8,800 new students, and some returning students, are moving in and will need a helping hand.
A free t-shirt and a meal will be provided through residential dining services for a few hours (or more) of service. For more information and to register, visit http://alumni.msu.edu/movein.Continue Reading… MSU Alumni Association is looking for volunteers
The HR/Payroll system contains business address information for all employees except student employees, graduate assistants, undergraduate assistants and professorial assistants. This information is used for MSU’s People Search and for campus mailings. Until now, Human Resources maintained these records in the system. 
Effective July 11, departmental Unit Administrators now have the ability to view and change this information.
The HR/Payroll system requires at least one business address for all employees. There are two types of addresses maintained:Continue Reading… Unit Administrators can now update employee Business Address and Phone
Have you noticed something different while driving through MSU’s campus? It could be those shiny new road signs! Building addresses have been converted to new street addresses, and addresses are being assigned across campus to green-light phones, parking lots, etc.
To look up the new address for a building, visit http://campusaddresses.msu.edu/. This website also offers United States Postal Service (USPS) format instructions, answers to other frequently asked questions and contact information.Continue Reading… The Campus Addressing Project is Almost Complete!
In case you missed it, here’s the June 2012 HR Source newsletter!
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In case you missed it, here’s the May 2012 HR Source newsletter!
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When EBS went live in January 2011, there were only two forms categorized as ‘smart,’ the Student and Graduate Assistant hire forms. A smart form validates all data at submission and when all approvals are in place, the data updates automatically in the HR/Payroll system. All other forms required manual intervention at some point during processing.
We quickly realized that we needed to improve the process and speed up the timeline from submission to completion on the HR forms. The EBS Team is in the process of redesigning many of the Human Resources forms using a ‘wizard style approach.’ This approach is similar to processes used by online retailers. Users will answer a series of questions to determine the correct form and the path for completion of that form. With these ‘smart’ forms, data is broken into logical units, business rules are enforced, data is validated as the form is completed and, when possible, position and employee information is pre-populated. When all approvals are in place, data will automatically update in the HR/Payroll system. This will help to eliminate errors and decrease processing time.Continue Reading… EBS forms improved by a Wizard
