Sunday, October 25, 2009

MPS HR Useless

Does this really surprise anyone?

The subject in this round of outside criticism of MPS is the human resources department, which handles such things as hiring teachers. In many school districts, the effective use of the HR department is a key to building a strong staff, holding people accountable for job performance, providing on-the-job training for employees, and managing a variety of important functions smoothly.

MPS is not one of those places, if you read the report from a team of respected professionals in the HR field.

Superintendent William Andrekopoulos asked the Council of the Great City Schools, a support organization for large urban districts, to send the team to Milwaukee. So the criticism doesn’t come from some unwanted busybodies.

The seven-member team - six of them HR professionals in other school districts and the seventh the director of management services for the council itself - concluded that Milwaukee’s department doesn’t measure up in a long list of things a good HR department should be doing.

And they used the word that has been perhaps most damning in several reports about MPS: Urgency. They said that people they interviewed from the MPS HR department lacked a sense of urgency about serving people better. (This will not come as news to many MPS principals who have complained for years about HR.)

(4) Comments
Posted by Owen at 1220 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

  1. Did I miss the post about Tim’s apology? 

    Riight.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 25, 2009 at 1902 hrs


  2. Our union for years has been telling us to double- and triple-copy everything we hand in to them, with time stamps and as much other documentation as we can get.

    This is no secret.

    Posted by folkbum on October 25, 2009 at 1937 hrs


  3. Fire them all and start over.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 25, 2009 at 2122 hrs


  4. Further evidence that MPS needs to be blown up and rebuilt. Funny how a Billion plus dollar budget gets you nothing but incompetence. The city of Milwaukee is an absolute mess, and this only piles on to that fact.

    I plan to move my business outside of the City poste-haste if we ever see a recovery around these parts. Property taxes are stifling, and the money is being flagrantly wasted on a vastly overpaid board, and an unmanageable empire that has been imploding for years. The residents of the MPS district are Nero, and they are playing Vivaldi while their education system burns to the ground under the management of incompetents and scammers.

    Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on October 26, 2009 at 0952 hrs


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