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April Calendar

SPOTLIGHT
HR Reports
Who's Who

HUB Vendor of the Month

FINANCE
Reserve Your Inventory Scanner


HUMAN RESOURCES
Helpful PeopleSoft Queries

Sick Leave Pool

PAYROLL
Payroll Accounting

TRAINING
Training Survey Results
New Training Classes
Access to HR View 8.9

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APRIL 2007 - BUSINESS NOTES AND NEWS



Training Survey Results

In last month’s issue, we invited employees to participate in an on-line training survey and promised to print the results in our April newsletter. Thanks to everyone who took the time to answer our questions and help us as we develop our new, administrative training department.

Below are the courses you told us you needed developed to assist you in understanding these business processes:
Priority #   %
1 Successful On-Boarding of New Employees - The PAR Process (Classroom) 67.2%
2 Procurement Rules (Online) 63.8%
3 Everything You Needed to Know About Processing the I-9 (Classroom) 62.7%
4 UH Accounting Basics (Online) 62.1%
5 Payroll Reallocation and Understanding Payroll Suspense (Classroom) 61.0%
6 HR View/Navigation (Online) 60.0%
7 Taxable Fringe Benefits (Online) 57.9%
8 Timesheets, Deadlines, and More (Classroom) 56.9%
9 Tips and Navigational Advice for OJS (Classroom) 46.6%
10 HR PASS (Online) 44.1%
11 Moving Expenses (Online) 44.1%
12 Property Custodian Training (Online) 42.9%
13 Payment to Foreign National Independent Contractors (Online) 32.1%

Current Classes (In order from best to needs improvement)
Priority #   %
1 Cash Handling (Online) 54.9%
2 Voucher Creation and Workflow (Online) 43.1%
3 GL Journal Creation and Workflow (Online) 42.0%
4 Budget Journal Creation and Workflow (Online) 41.2%
5 SC Voucher Creation and Workflow (Online) 38.0%
5 Requisition Creation and Workflow (Online) 38.0%
6 P-Card Business Office (Online) 34.0%
7 Travel Forms and Rules (Classroom) 30.6%
7 P-Card Cardholder (Online) 30.6%
8 Credit Card Data Security (Online) 28.6%
9 Credit Card Processing (Online) 28.0%
10 Travel Card Cardholder (Online) 27.7%
11 HR Query (Classroom) 27.1%
12 Travel Card Business Office (Online) 26.5%
13 Credit Card Accounting (Online) 24.0%
14 New Employee Basic Financial Processes and Transactions (Classroom) 22.0%
15 New Employee HR View 20.8%
16 Payroll/Finance Reconciliation (Classroom) 16.0%

We also asked participants a series of questions about services that the training department could provide to the departments. Here’s what you told us:

• 66.7% would like to receive monthly departmental training statistics.
• 69.4% would like the training department to provide courses on other topics not listed above.
• 92% believe that new employees need more detailed training about protocols and processes than is currently offered.
• 62% think that offering customized training packages for each department would be beneficial.

The Training Operations Department also did receive a lot of great additional comments as part of this survey. We will be utilizing all of this feedback to help us develop our administrative training program.