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Harvard has nine salary grades for non-exempt employees (workers who must be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours a week under the Fair Labor Standards Act). Cantor says the largest sectors are grades three to five, where the wages range from a minimum of $667 monthly in grade three to a maximum of $1070 in grade five for a 35-hour work week. A beginning secretarial job may be grade three, and a beginning research assistant's job is grade five. Merit--the quality of employees' work and their assumption of additional duties--determines promotion to higher...
...Cantor and a University-wide personnel staff of about 75 people are in charge of making sure the non-Faculty positions run smoothly. To that end, the personnel representatives from each school meet twice a month to discuss University policy, recruitment strategies and to share tips, Wickenden says. "And there is a regular informal flow of complaint memos, bitches, whatever goes on throughout the different schools," Cantor says. To reduce confusion, the personnel office distributed a thick memo detailing all personnel rules to every department...
...would be easy to confuse policy at Harvard. The University has a yearly turnover rate of one-third among its supporting staff. Cantor says it's a standard figure for educational institutions: "Most universities, Harvard included, have traditionally had large segments of staff made up of people in a transient stage of life. Their spouses may be going to graduate schools or they may want to get work experience... The system is geared to accept a changing work force which is non-academic...
...removed quits because of a spouse returning to school a safe bet would be that there would be a 15-to-20 per cent turnover here," Cantor says. He points to an 18-per-cent turnover rate in most industries as a fairly stable norm...
...turnover is affected by employees morale, too, and morale continually flows and ebbs, Cantor says. "It's not as if you'd go along with a stable temperature of 98.6 and then hit a fever plateau. Morale is always changing," he says. A recessed economy or student demonstrations such as those in the late '60s could trigger depression among employees, he adds...