Ritchie Brown, enforcement supervisor with parking and transportation services, said that while the institute has required a major time investment, he now has a deeper understanding of how UH fulfills its role in the higher education system. Team building skills have been a major component the Management Institute. A major element of the institute is a project that gives participating staff members the chance to research an issue facing the university. Six teams are examining topics such as ways the university can better recruit, retain and reward employees and how a pay plan might be developed that assures equity and advancement opportunities. Institute participants have been spending two to five hours a week of their own time on these projects, so they're being taken very seriously.
Plans are to make the management institute an annual affair.