Introduction
The University of Kentucky is the largest university in Kentucky, with 26, 682 students
enrolled*ƒ”€ they are the top employer in Lexington*ƒ‘”€“ with over 10,600 employees
and they are the ninth largest economic company in Kentucky, with an annual budget of
over $1.4 billion.”€ž”€“ The Human Resource department at UK has approximately 110
employees.4 I decided to interview the top two HR Specialists: Kimberly P. Wilson,
Associate Vice President of HR and Mary Ferlan, Operations Director of HR. These two
women put aside some time with me to go over the University of Kentucky Human
Resource Department, the Organizational Chart of HR, and answered some questions I had
regarding their positions.
Background
Kimberly P. Wilson, the Associate Vice President of HR, has been with the University of
Kentucky since 2002. She started her career at UK as the Human Resource Development
Manager. She was in charge of three training groups: the Employee Development,
Technology Training and Operation Educate. In August of 2003, she became the Chief of
Staff to the Executive Vice President of Finance and Administration, performing special
projects and assignments as instructed. Then in March of 2004, Mrs. Wilson became the
Acting Director of Human Resources, which is responsible for all aspects of the HR
operations, university wide.
Mrs. Wilson has an extensive background in human resource management. Between 1994
and 2001 she worked for Reuters Group, PLC, holding various HR positions. Her position
was working as the VP of HR. She went on to becoming the Deputy Director of HR, based
in London and then the Director of HR for the global sales and operations division, based
