Word: personnel
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Director of Human Resources Anne H. Taylor, who for more than a year headed Harvard's campaign to stop the election of a support staff union, will return to a position in the Office of the General Counsel after spending little more than a year as the head of personnel...
...talking to a large number of people to determine our needs at this time," Scott said, adding that the search will focus on people who can meet the challenges that the personnel office faces in cooperating with the largest union Harvard has ever...
These challenges include implementing a plan, agreed on in principle by HUCTW and the University, to decentralize the personnel management system at Harvard so that local offices have more control and assuring that Harvard's salaries are competitive in the Cambridge market...
When it approved the plan in June, theMassachusetts state legislature passed a home rulepetition which exempted B.U. from five publiceducation laws, including those requiring openmeetings, open records, public audits and thoseregulating the hiring and firing of personnel andteachers...
...series of slogans rather than a well-structured set of programs. American Sovietologist Abraham Becker of the Rand Corp. concludes that Gorbachev came to power with a narrow view of the country's problem and what was needed to reform it. "He believed erroneously that drastic but elementary personnel changes, a shaking up of the cadres, would turn around the bureaucracy," says Becker. The Carnegie Endowment's Dimitri Simes thinks time for such tinkering is running out. "Gorbachev has to decide what kind of Soviet Union he wants, what kind of vision for it he has," Simes says...