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"On
Record"
Candid interviews for the Ohio State community with President
Kirwan
Question #7: How will the university be able to benchmark to a person’s
specific duties?
President Kirwan: I’m not sure we can benchmark individual duties.
We have a general sense of what faculty members’ responsibilities are.
We’ll start first with faculty. Basically, what we want to do is to
see - programmatic area by programmatic area - how do we compare against
our competition? So, for example, speaking first about faculty, we’re
going to look at our business school, and see how our business school faculty
salaries compare to the business school salaries within our peer institutions.
Our English faculty – how their salaries compare? We’re going
to look at this discipline-by-discipline, rather than having some across
the board approach, because I think we have to recognize there are market
forces at work. If, for example, our English and history faculty are more
out of line with the competition - the faculty they compete with - then
we have to put some special focus on boosting those salaries. So, it will
be more of a disciplinary comparison than individual faculty one.
Now in regard to staff, we collect a lot of data comparing job descriptions
with job descriptions at other Ohio universities, in state government, and
in the private sector in Ohio. Here we benchmark job categories against
the competition. In this case, it would be employment opportunities for
staff in central Ohio, and in Ohio. Here again, we want to be market competitive
and get at least to the median level of these job categories as a first
step towards a more generous compensation, more appropriate I should say,
compensation for our staff. |
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