One of your key responsibilities is to recruit, hire and develop staff. UHR and your HR Business Partner are available to help ensure hiring decisions are compliant with Brown policy, and legal and fair selection practices.

More on recruiting and hiring:

Conducting annual performance reviews with your staff provides meaningful feedback about work performance and identifies opportunities for continued professional growth.

• Read about what is required for annual performance reviews
• View the Comprehensive Performance Management Guide
• Learn more in Toolkit for Managers (a self-directed, online module)

Managers and senior officers retain the discretion to decide the Alternative Work Assignments (AWA) type(s) available to staff based upon the manager-assigned Position Work Location (PWL) designated in Workday and a unit’s operational needs.

Position Work Locations

The PWL is the location where the position’s work will be performed; it is determined by the employee’s assigned manager in Workday, in consultation with University Human Resources.

Read more about PWLs

Alternative Work Assignments

An AWA is the agreement between the University and a staff member to modify work locations, schedules, or assignments from traditional University operating standards and practices.

There are conditions and responsibilities for hybrid or remote AWAs – employees must be fully accessible during their designated work hours and are expected to maintain a presence using agreed-upon technology, as well as be available to their manager, coworkers and customers with the same response time as if working on site.

Read the details about AWAs