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Delica Reduque

HR SENIOR LEADERSHIP

Manager of Employee and Labor Relations

1-43 Fake Address

EDUCATION & WORK

Delica Reduque

AT SHU

  • Employee relations and counseling
  • Family Medical Leave Act and Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Labor relations and contracts
  • Employee evaluation and discipline

WORK HISTORY

  • Employee and Labor Relations Assistant at Fashion Institute of Technology
  • Associate Director of Admissions at Brooklyn Friends School

EDUCATION HISTORY

  • Contract Administration Studies Certificate at Cornell University - ILR School
  • M.S.Ed. at City University of New York-Baruch College
  • Art Education Certificate at Parson's School of Design/Bank Street School of Education
  • B.F.A. at Pratt Institute

IMPORTANCE

What is the most important part of your job?

  • organization
  • adhere to a high ethical standard
  • confidentiality
  • remember that HR affects people's lives (paychecks, pensions, insurance)
  • trustworthy
  • believe in the mission

INFORMATION

What are your thoughts on HR and diversity?

  • HR leads the way with workshops and trainings
  • exclusion took a long time to make so inclusion will take a long time to fix
  • diversity is better for business

PHILOSOPHY

What is your philosophy regarding HR?

  • HR SAVES LIVES

EXPECTATIONS

In general, what are your expectations of this office?

  • people are an organization's greatest resource
  • data driven decision making
  • making the workplace enjoyable and pleasant for all employees

POLICY

Do you have any standard policy practices that you live by?

  • union contracts
  • SHU policy
  • NJ law
  • federal law
  • employee handbook
  • NJ Sick Leave Law (recently changed, 2018)

CHALLENGES

What are the biggest challenges of working in HR?

  • actually making things happen
  • making things happen at the pace that it should
  • going from an idea to a full execution

HR IN UNIVERSITIES

How is HR in a university different from HR in a corporation?

  • mostly similar as far as people go
  • universities and charities are similar
  • a university is slower than corporations
  • always behind

SHARED GOVERNANCE

SHARED GOVERNANCE

  • faculty
  • administrators
  • unions
  • board
  • government
  • they each have opposing ideas
  • that is why it takes so long

How do unions affect the workforce?

UNIONS

  • contracts are good because they define
  • as long as the job gets done correctly, unions are good
  • unions are good but are not necessary as long as there is a vision

CREDENTIALS

What is a quality that is more important than credentials?

  • understanding the culture of the organization
  • understanding people
  • being empathetic but still keeping business in mind