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Human Resources Revised 2/4/08

Human Resources Staff

Organization Chart

Bill HendryBill Hendry, SPHRbhendry@nmc.edu
Executive Director of Human Resources
231.995.1025
Chris KeenanChris Keenan, SPHR, CHRSckeenan@nmc.edu
Coordinator of Benefits and Human Resources
231.995.1148
Carol KasperCarol Kasper, PHRckasper@nmc.edu
Human Resources Office Manager
231.995.1362
Lori HodekLori Hodek, PHRlhodek@nmc.edu
Human Resources Assistant
231.995.1143

Location:

The Human Resources Office is located in the lower level of the Tanis administration building. For a map of the college campus showing the building locations, refer to NMC's Campus Map.

Hours of Operation:

The NMC Human Resources Office is open 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday thru Friday year round. We are closed to observe the following holidays:

2008 Holiday Schedule

January 1, 2008   New Year's Day   All day
March 21, 2008   Spring Holiday   All day
May 26, 2008   Memorial Day   All day
July 4, 2008   Independence Day   All day
September 1, 2008   Labor Day   All day
November 27-28, 2008   Thanksgiving   All day
December 24, 2008   Holiday   All day
December 25, 2008   Holiday   All day
December 31, 2008   New Year's Eve   1/2 day, closing at noon
January 1, 2009   New Year's Day   All day

Primary Service Areas

Selection and Staffing

Matching people with their career needs and capabilities with jobs and career paths

  • Maintaining a job posting process for internal candidates
  • Developing job specifications
  • Using reliable and valid selection methods
  • Conducting background investigations
  • Designing effective and efficient pre-employment testing methods
  • Providing guidance on selection decisions
  • Recruitment - internal and external

Equal Employment Opportunity

The treatment of individuals in all aspects of hiring, promotion, training, etc., in a fair and nonbiased way

  • Recruitment of protected classes of employees including women, entrance of men into traditional jobs for women, minorities, disabled, and older persons
  • Ensuring EEO compliance
  • Handling discrimination complaints
  • Ensuring compliance with all laws affecting equal employment opportunity

Compensation/Benefits

Assuring compensation and benefits fairness and consistency

  • Administering pay plans, which includes maintaining a job classification system and salary surveys to maintain internal and external equity
  • Researching various benefits that meet our employee population needs

Labor Relations, Employee Rights and Discipline

Facilitating healthy relationships

  • Guaranteeing all employees fair treatment
  • Maintaining disciplinary policies and procedures
  • Investigating disciplinary problems
  • Designing effective approaches to disciplinary action
  • Facilitating disciplinary action appeals
  • Building healthy union-management relationships
  • Facilitating conflict resolution
  • Overseeing collective bargaining
  • Instituting labor/management cooperative programs
  • Hearing employee concerns and complaints

HR Research and Information Systems

Developing and maintaining a network of procedures, equipment, information and people to provide data for purposes of control and decision making.