Employee Relations Playbook v.2 - Flipbook - Page 30
Definitions
a. Manager is a staff member with at least one direct report, and all faculty members.
b. Risk at the University includes issues which threaten the physical, financial, human, and reputational
assets of the university.
c. Attendance Issues include unauthorized or unapproved absences, failure to follow departmental
procedures regarding notification of or requests for leave, habitual tardiness, chronic absenteeism,
patterns indicating abuse of leave policy, falsification of timekeeping records, failure to return from
approved leaves, and job abandonment.
d. Behavior Issues include unprofessional or unacceptable conduct in the work environment and
behavior which may adversely affect morale.
e. Complaints are statements that a situation is unsatisfactory or unacceptable.
f. Confidentiality Issues include breaching confidentiality through unauthorized access, use, release or
retention of confidential or proprietary information concerning the university and any affiliated entities,
operations or personnel (for example, information and/or records related to payroll, personnel, student,
alumni, donor, patient, financial, business, research or teaching), regardless of intent.
g. Conflict of Interest Issues include failure to disclose to employee’s immediate supervisor a situation
or proposed activity that may constitute a conflict or potential conflict of interest (for example,
participating in any transaction between the university and a business entity in which the employee or
his or her relative has a personal or financial interest), supervising or hiring a relative or intimate friend
unless such relationship is properly disclosed and managed, accepting employment with a supplier,
competitor or any other employer that might impair performance of university duties, accepting gifts
from prospective or current suppliers, unless gift is of nominal value (for example, isolated meal
invitations), and disclosing confidential university information or using such information for personal
gain. See Conflict of Interest in Professional and Business Practices and Conflict of Interest in Research
policies.
h. A Critical Position is any Vice President, Associate Vice President, Director, Dean, Associate or
Assistant Dean, Senior Business Officer, and other positions as necessary.
i. Discrimination refers to the unfair treatment of a person or group because of that person’s or group’s
protected category status, as defined in the university’s Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action and
Non-Discrimination policy.
j. Dishonesty Issues include providing false, fraudulent or inaccurate information in the course of
conducting business, on university documents or during university investigations, audits or complaint
processes; making bad faith allegations of wrongdoing, including allegations that are knowingly false,
capricious, maliciously motivated or made with reckless disregard for facts.
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