Invest in our staff

McKelvey’s employees are the source of the School’s success. Investments in our research and education missions directly impacts our faculty. To ensure a focus on all our employees, we must also strategically invest in our staff so that they can perform their work at the highest level. These investments will include redesigning our onboarding process to promote a sense of belonging and shared understanding for new employees, developing training programs for staff to bolster their professional skill sets, reevaluating employee policies to ensure that they are equitable and facilitating community-building forums. People are at the core of the University’s Here and Next strategic plan, as is supporting and developing employees. We will take deliberate actions to ensure that McKelvey employees feel supported and connected to the School and to one another.

Our Commitments

We will:

• Charge the McKelvey Staff Council with the task of reevaluating employee-related policies to ensure that they are equitable and clear, with input from relevant employees impacted by policy changes.
• Invest deliberately in the onboarding, learning and development, and career progression of McKelvey employees.
• Build upon the EDI Action Plan to ensure that we are cultivating an equitable and inclusive working environment.
• Promote community building opportunities designed for hybrid work environments through in-person and virtual gatherings or forums that promote collaboration and idea sharing.
• Create opportunities for employees to engage with one another in creative and collaborative ways beyond their day-to-day responsibilities.
• Revamp our physical spaces to enable collaborative work.

Why:

• In a post-pandemic, post-Great Resignation environment, employees at McKelvey and nationwide desire a supportive, healthy, and flexible work environment. To meet the needs of our employees, we must thoughtfully invest in staff policies and support and in workplace infrastructure.
• The fundamental commitments that underpin this entire strategic plan focus in large part on our people. To honor those commitments, we will take deliberate steps to enhance our School’s work culture, especially as it impacts our staff.