One of the biggest values that I hold is my faith in Christ. CSP assures me that I have made a good decision in being a student and employee. CSP is trying to maintain a Christ-centered culture while providing one of the best education options in the Twin Cities. When I was interviewing Mary Arnold, the director of HR, I was blown away at how CSP really goes through a vigorous process when it comes to hiring the right employees. There is no current affirmative action plan at CSP, but they do try to hire minorities and protected groups of people to diversify their staff’s knowledge set. At first I was a little skeptical that CSP doesn’t have an active affirmative action program; but there is a solid reason for this. CSP staff must go through …show more content…
It is very important that employees get an understanding of what is expected of them while having the chance to socialize with other faculty members. To me, a three day workshop seems a bit light in my opinion, but Mary Arnold gave me multiple subjects that they go over in the onboarding process. Things like organizational culture, the history of CSP, the history of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, expectations of faculty members, workloads, committee expectations, benefits, and resources are just a few of the many things that the onboarding process has to offer new CSP faculty members. If I were the one making the decisions at CSP, I would reevaluate what exactly is gone over in the three day workshop. If I feel that further onboarding is needed, I would add a couple of days. The fact that new CSP faculty have an onboarding process means that HR is doing their job getting employees acquainted with …show more content…
Mello says that HR is becoming a more relevant part of organization’s strategic planning process. The biggest part of the strategic planning that HR contributes to is contributing the correct set of people to communicate the overall culture of CSP. To me, one of the biggest reasons why I love CSP as a student is because I can truly feel the love of Christ from the professors. Other colleges either don’t care about showing the love of Christ or they try to force people to believe like they do. I think CSP has the great mixture of showing Christ’s love and letting students believe what they believe without much resistance. As Christians, we forget that the most important part of our lives is our faith in Christ. CSP’s culture tries to remind us that Christ loves us and He only wants the best in our lives. After interviewing the director of HR, I have seen firsthand the ideas behind why CSP’s HR is contributing to the University’s overall strategy. Throughout my first couple of weeks of learning strategic HR management, I have learned that finding the right fit is part of HR contributing to an organization’s strategy. Mary Arnold was a big advocate for finding the right fit when it came to employees. Employees at CSP need to buy into the overall culture before they are even hired. If an employee has different ideas of how they are strategically going to influence CSP, then there would be a conflict