SPEC Kit 344: Talent Management · 19
Leadership development opportunities are provided at institutional level.
Not all selected activities in the “library currently undertakes” column apply to all employee groups.
University professional development opportunities
2. Please indicate which of the following talent/workforce management challenges your library is
currently facing, or will face in the next three years, and which of those challenges are addressed in
your library’s strategic plan. Check all that apply. N=52
Talent Management Challenges Library currently
facing
Library will face in
next 3 years
Is addressed in
strategic plan
N
Retirement of a large number of staff 23 36 3 45
Budget cuts affecting fiscal resources 31 14 7 32
Internal salary inequities 28 7 0 29
Current employees not able to be re-trained or
re-skilled
25 3 5 27
Job candidates not having the skills your library
needs
17 8 2 20
Salaries are not competitive enough to attract
new staff
16 9 1 19
Salaries are not competitive enough to retain
existing staff
16 3 0 16
Downsizing of staff 14 5 0 16
Lack of work/life balance for staff 13 2 1 13
Not enough new librarians/library staff to fill
vacancies
4 2 1 5
Other challenge 11 2 1 11
Total Responses 52 41 15 52
If you selected “Other challenge” above, please briefly describe the challenge(s). N=11
Campus personnel policies for staff and faculty tenure can discourage supervisors and administrators from pursuing time
consuming and difficult steps to dismiss a non-productive employee. Staff and faculty who are mentally and emotionally
tied to traditional tasks that could not be defined as somewhat obsolete. This is not necessarily a training issue, but one
where employees define their value to the organization based on what they have traditionally done in their jobs.
Challenges in recruiting IT positions. Challenges of recruiting within the state civil service system.
Determining salaries for non-traditional librarian roles, like data curation, since the ARL data is not addressing it yet.
Downsizing of non-exempt support staff is being done through attrition with reassignment of funds to professional and
Libraries faculty positions.
“Downsizing of staff” and “budget cuts affecting fiscal resources” have led to some changes in individual workload
and activities.
Downsizing was limited to law library. Other challenges include inabilities to fill positions rapidly.
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