The HAPPI Business Center (BC) Mission Statement:  To provide excellent, high quality financial, human resources and administrative system services to the departments of Agronomy and Horticulture, Plant Pathology and INTSORMIL, their faculty, staff, students and clients; as efficiently and effectively as possible.

The Objectives of the BC are:

1)  Provide accurate, efficient, cutting-edge business services.
2)  Provide a forecast model and financial and budget management
     services to assist units in managing their resources effectively.
3)  Provide payroll and human resource management services to
     ensure adherence to university personnel and payroll policies as
     well ensure consistency in the application of policies.
4)  Provide the information necessary to assist faculty and staff with
     all of their business needs, including definition of duties and
     responsibilities of the team members, and encourage feedback
     and communication with the team members.  Provide links to university
     policy and procedures on the HAPPI web site.
5)  Provide cross training within the business center to ensure
     backup for all duties and responsibilities to support the highest
     degree of service to faculty and staff.
6)  Maintain reliable, accurate, and timely financial and human
     resource reposts to the staff server.

The business center strives to develop and maintain a work environment that fosters creativity, teamwork and communication, by providing training opportunities and professional development in line with each persons talents and strengths; working together as a team by backing each other up and working toward continual process improvement; and communication with faculty and staff by listening, sharing and promoting new ideas.

The BC staff encourages you to utilize our talents and skills to assist you in your business processes and to provide us with feedback about your needs, questions, and concerns.