Impact

Priority and Funding

This project has been classed as priority 2 (High).

The project is core funded with 35 IS Apps days; it is from the HRS programme budget.  

It is compliance as the University has changed from HTBN or “zero-hours” contracts. This project will articulate the business requirements needed to support the management of and reporting on Guaranteed Hours contracts as the manual overhead for devolved HR and business areas is unsustainable.

Impact and Dependencies

It is probable that time recorded in eTime would be a key data source. eTime has not been rolled out to the whole university yet; therefore the solution for this project may be dependent of Finance’s project to roll-out the use of eTime.  At the moment eTime is primarily used by HSS, though Finance is progressing with a roll out.

Schools use either manual paper or their own HR systems.  All systems and processes in use across the business areas need to be identified and understood in terms of the different approaches to managing GH contracts.  The benefits/challenges of the different approaches needs to be understood to be able to inform the Technical Project fully.  Other business areas within the University e.g. devolved Schools/Departments, Finance and Planning, University Planning are currently unable to report accurate FTEs for GH employees with ease, which impacts on ability to calculate other performance indicators such as Student Staff Ratios.