New payroll software is poised to change the jobs of more than 100 University employees in departments and schools across campus.

But the extent to which the implementation of PeopleSoft, the system that manages the University’s finances, will change certain human resources jobs’ duties — and pay — is unclear.

Brenda Malone, vice chancellor for human resources, said the implementation of PeopleSoft will alter services some human resources facilitators are expected to carry out.

PeopleSoft will replace the existing system that is used for payroll in January 2014.

There are currently about 335 facilitators across campus who work within their school or department’s office of human resources.

And with the change in software, about 190 people will be trained to do more complex transactions with PeopleSoft, Malone said.

Human resources created a formula to decide how many employees will need to access the PeopleSoft system based on the number of transactions completed in each unit last year.

Malone added that most of the current facilitators work with their unit’s human resources as a second job, in addition to their primary jobs.

“It doesn’t mean that 100 people are out of a job because those individuals are doing work that is very different from the small amount of human resources work they were doing,” Malone said.

She said the facilitators without access to PeopleSoft will probably be repurposed in their department.

“It will be negligible; they won’t even notice,” Malone said.

Facilitators use the existing software to complete transactions such as processing new hires and terminations.

Malone said PeopleSoft is more complex than the previous systems, and errors can occur if staff members are not properly trained.

“We have broken the work into complex and basic transactions,” she said.

The facilitators used to do both kinds of transactions in the previous system, she said.

“We want to bring a little more structure to the process,” she said.

Human resources divisions in the various schools and departments are responsible for implementing these changes, Malone said.

Kathy Bryant, senior director of human resources communications, said in an email that she does not know if this will affect the facilitators’ salaries.

“We are hopeful that there are minimal, if any, impacts on salaries,” she said.

Debra Beller, a communications specialist in the department of Information Technology Services, said her department is in charge of programming the system for use, which is in the beginning stage.

Donna Stelzenmuller, human resources facilitator in the School of Nursing, said most people are unsure about the program’s effects.

“I imagine it will affect smaller departments more than larger schools,” she said. “It’s more wonder than answer right now, which is expected as they are putting it together.”

Source:http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2012/10/new-software-will-change-human-resources

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