People, Processes and Culture
At Texas Woman's, we strive to improve our efficiency and effectiveness as changemakers in our communities. We will develop a culture of receptive engagement dedicated to positive responsiveness and innovation.
With those values in mind, this initiative promotes streamlining processes and employing transparent, respectful, and collaborative communication practices. This 鈥渃ulture of yes鈥� will lead to more innovation, more collaboration, and more belonging within the Texas Woman's system for our stakeholders, students, staff, faculty, and administration.
Strategies
- Incorporate a bottom-up feedback loop through an information hub to foster new and enhanced programs and to improve recruitment and retention strategies.
- Customize research and pedagogical opportunities to improve participation, collaboration, and production among faculty, staff, students, and off-campus partnerships
- Address fair and robust compensation for all full-time and part-time employees to ensure we move towards designation as a R2 institution
Success Measures
- Conduct an assessment of compensation and develop strategies for ensuring fair and robust compensation for all full-time and part-time employees as we move towards designation as a R2 institution
- Host annual collaborative, intra- and inter-campus research gatherings to support innovative research grant applications
- Create guidelines to improve the efficiency of search and hiring processes and assess the efficacy of search outcomes
- Develop innovative and flexible hiring packages for new faculty, staff, and administrators
The Team
- Ashley Bender, PhD
Associate Professor of English, and Program Coordinator and Coordinator of First Year Experience - William R. Benner, PhD
Associate Professor of Spanish. Coordinator minors in Spanish - Amy Williams Hall, SHRM-SCP, SPHR
Executive Director of Human Resources - Christian L. Hart, PhD
Professor of Psychology, Director of the Psychological Science Program and Director of the Human Deception Laboratory - Jason R. Lambert, PhD
Associate Professor of Management - Noralyn Pickens, PhD
Associate Dean for Interprofessional Education and Strategic Initiatives, College of Health Sciences and College of Nursing and Professor, Occupational Therapy - John Terrizzi, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology