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acciones de personnel

English translation: matters/actions/provisions regarding staff

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Spanish term or phrase:acciones de personnel
English translation:matters/actions/provisions regarding staff
Entered by: JaneTranslates

06:45 Mar 23, 2012
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / University budget planning
Spanish term or phrase: acciones de personnel
The document I'm translating contains guidelines for constructing a budget for a university. I've found a recurring phrase that seems odd to me, and even odder when I try to translate it. Here are two contexts, for good measure:

El Comité de Presupuesto recomienda el presupuesto que será asignado para **acciones de personal** no docente (nombramientos sustitutos, contratos de servicios, diferenciales y compensaciones adicionales) y se lo informa a la Oficina de Recursos Humanos (ORH).

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La ORH revisa, evalúa y recomienda a cada unidad las **acciones de personal** que correspondan a la luz de las necesidades presentadas por las unidades, una evaluación de los recursos con los que cuentan, su estructura organizacional, su misión y Plan de Desarrollo.


So, we have a Budget Committee allocating funds for...the actions of non-teaching personnel?

And then Human Resources recommends to a unit (college or school within the university) the corresponding ...actions of personnel?

It doesn't make sense to me. Should I simply write, "the WORK of non-teaching personnel"?

Can you help?

Puerto Rican Spanish to U.S. English
JaneTranslates
Puerto Rico
Local time: 01:46
matters regarding non-teaching staff
Explanation:
An option

Selected response from:

Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 07:46
Grading comment
Your answer turned on the light bulb for me, Helena. I was misinterpreting, thinking that the phrase referred to actions performed BY the non-teaching staff. Once again, I was done in by a preposition--that pesky, multi-purpose "DE." Your choice of "REGARDING" was key. Thank you! BTW, I'm removing "non-teaching" in the glossary entry, since it is not part of the Spanish phrase.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +1staff provisions
James A. Walsh
4(work carried out by) non-teaching staff
Lara Cummings
4human resources activities
neilmac
4staff/human resources
philgoddard
2 +1matters regarding non-teaching staff
Helena Chavarria
3staff resource management
Julie Thurston


Discussion entries: 1





  

Answers


45 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
(work carried out by) non-teaching staff


Explanation:
some suggestions:
non-teaching staff has lots of hits:

(work carried out by) non-teaching staff
and the second one "or tasks performed/required by" non-teaching staff


    Reference: http://www.ketknbc.com/news/texas-education-staff-to-teacher...
    Reference: http://www.chicagonow.com/district-299-chicago-public-school...
Lara Cummings
Spain
Local time: 07:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, Peregian. It turns out I was misinterpreting the "de"--it's not "actions done BY" staff, but "regarding" staff. I appreciate your time and interest.

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +1
matters regarding non-teaching staff


Explanation:
An option



Helena Chavarria
Spain
Local time: 07:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 144
Grading comment
Your answer turned on the light bulb for me, Helena. I was misinterpreting, thinking that the phrase referred to actions performed BY the non-teaching staff. Once again, I was done in by a preposition--that pesky, multi-purpose "DE." Your choice of "REGARDING" was key. Thank you! BTW, I'm removing "non-teaching" in the glossary entry, since it is not part of the Spanish phrase.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emiliano Pantoja: non-teaching staff provisions
6 hrs
  -> Thank you! I couldn't understand why you had agreed until I saw that James's answer lacks the "non-teaching" bit :-)
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
human resources activities


Explanation:
Broadly speaking, all action (activities) to do with human resources, whether tasks carried out by non-teaching staff (I'd avoid "personnel" nowadays, but that's just me) or simply management of the same.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-03-23 08:12:54 GMT)
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Human resources activities could also incluse things such as employee appraisals or training... etc.

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Note added at 1 hr (2012-03-23 08:13:23 GMT)
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Sorry, "include"...

neilmac
Spain
Local time: 07:46
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 527
Notes to answerer
Asker: Neilmac, thanks for the reminder on "staff" instead of "personnel." Most translators for this client continue to use "personnel" but I think I'll start breaking the mold.

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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
acciones de personnel
staff provisions


Explanation:
This would be my take on it. I think "provisions" for the "acciones" makes more sense in English.

Hope this helps :)


Example sentence(s):
  • The Budget Committee recommends the budget to be allocated for non-teaching <u>staff provisions</u>...
  • HR reviews, evaluates and recommends <u>staff provisions</u> for each unit...

    Reference: http://tinyurl.com/7reeo6e
James A. Walsh
Spain
Local time: 07:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 87
Notes to answerer
Asker: This phrase is new to me. To my ears, it doesn't make the meaning clear, but your references and a Google search proved it's in use. I've made a personal note of it, and bookmarked the Linguee site. Thank you!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Emiliano Pantoja: non-teaching staff provisions
2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Emiliano. Yes, "non-teaching" as I meantion in my first example sentence above :)
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
acciones de personal
staff/human resources


Explanation:
It makes perfect sense if you just ignore "acciones de" and say "staff" or "human resources".

You've misspelt "personal" in the header of your question, by the way.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 259
Notes to answerer
Asker: I'm still blushing over that "personnel" blooper, Phil. Thanks for pointing it out and giving me a chance to retract publicly. I like your suggestion--I've got a good pair of text scissors and use them often--but I don't think my client will. Thanks for your answer.

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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
staff resource management


Explanation:
another one to contemplate maybe

Julie Thurston
Local time: 23:46
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks for your suggestion, Julie. I was misinterpreting the text, but you and several others had the right idea. I appreciate your interest.

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