About Human Resource Management
Human Resource Management provides a wide range of human resource management services. These services contribute to the ability of MDH to protect, improve and maintain the health of Minnesotans. This means providing quality and responsive human resource management advice and service.
Our services include personnel administration, working in partnership with managers and supervisors at all levels of MDH in furthering sound management practices and ensuring that the standards of civil service law, collective bargaining agreements and department policies and procedures are maintained.
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For more information about HRM, please read on.
Human Resource Management Programs
You can view the HRM Office organizational chart here (PDF document, ~66KB, 1 pg).Personnel
Management
The Personnel Management function of the Department includes
providing a wide range of full service human resource management services. Utilizing
the framework of the State's civil service system, this activity includes recruitment,
all staffing and job filling activities, job evaluation and classification, labor/management
relations, employee relations, employee compensation and benefit program administration,
workforce planning, employee performance management consulting, discipline and
grievance resolution, human resource policy development and administration and
employee payroll activities. Through a "team" system, aligned
with the overall department organizational structure, human resource professional
and support staff work in partnership with their assigned divisions to ensure
a productive and effective workforce and work environment.
Workforce
Diversity/Affirmative Action
Through a variety of methods, the Office
of Workforce Diversity works to increase the cultural competence of staff
so that they can be more effective in serving a diverse community. It
works in collaboration with all employees to bring them closer together and
create a
cohesive work environment for all. It ensures that our recruitment and
selection
strategies emphasize the importance of a diverse workforce. It also
develops and administers the MDH Affirmative Action Plan (PDF document, 60 pages, 884KB), investigates
complaints
of discrimination and maintains a centralized monitoring and reporting system
for internal and external use of the results of our affirmative action and diversity
efforts.
Center for Workforce Development
The Center for Workforce Development designs, arranges, conducts and administers a wide variety of training and developmental activities to build the capacity of MDH employees. It develops and administers agency training and development policies; provides consultations to managers, supervisors and all employees in individual employee development planning; provides executive and individual coaching; provides customized facilitation; and provides technical assistance in effective training and development theory and practices. It arranges a variety of self-development activities including references, self-study material, and computer based training activities. It plans department-wide training efforts and evaluates their effectiveness.
Employee
Health and Safety
The Employee Safety Office establishes and administers
an on-going effort to ensure a healthy and safe work environment. It develops
and administers department-wide safety policies and strategies and programs to
ensure employee safety. It provides consultation and technical assistance
to managers and supervisors and all employees regarding safety. It monitors
the work environment for safety, conducts inspections, investigates complaints,
administers the MDH Workers Compensation program and provides centralized reporting
of safety conditions and issues.
For more information the Human Resource Management Office can be reached at (651)201-5770
Minnesota Department of Health
Human Resource Management
625 Robert Street North
P. O. Box 64975
St. Paul, MN 55064-0975
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