myURHR Demo Days continue through mid-November, and while the sessions cover an array of key changes and terminology, there is one phrase participants may hear frequently: supervisory organization. What is it and what does it mean to faculty and staff? Read more to find out.
Supervisory Organization Overview
Supervisory organizations help drive access to data and various human resources business processes as their goal is to define how faculty and staff are organized. Each one uniquely represents reporting relationships within the University’s management hierarchy. As a reminder, myURHR is powered by two modernized and marketing-leading software programs – Workday and UKG. Supervisory organizations are the building blocks of Workday.
One way to think of supervisory organizations is to imagine a tree where the top represents the highest-level (e.g., the entire University), and the branches and leaves represent different departments, teams, and individual University members. Each organization has a hierarchical structure with a manager who is responsible for faculty and/or staff. Some faculty and staff members will be assigned to more than one supervisory organization depending on their roles and responsibilities.
Supervisory Organization & Org Charts
Supervisory organizations also help to determine where faculty and staff members are positioned on organizational charts. The image below is an example of an org chart in Workday. Faculty and staff members will have access to their own org chart, and have the ability to view other org charts across the University community.
Arrows at the top and bottom allow you to navigate up and down throughout the org chart, displaying various leaders and whom reports to each leader. Similar to today, each org chart in Workday will contain photos and work addresses.
The myURHR project team understands there will be more questions as faculty and staff get acquainted with myURHR during Demo Days. Additional information and resources will be available over the coming months and through training in 2024.
myURHR is one of several important HR Modernization strategic initiatives, including Career Path Modernization (CPM), that are establishing a new foundation for how the University delivers HR services in support of our talented and growing workforce.