(a) The California State University Management Personnel Plan is an integrated personnel system addressing the employment rights, benefits, and conditions of those California State University employees designated as “management” or “supervisory” under the Higher Education Employer-Employee Relations Act. The Management Personnel Plan includes four grade levels each with a salary delimited by minimum and maximum rates of salary determined by the Chancellor and approved by the Board of Trustees on the basis of comparative salary data from competitive public and private organizations. The salary ranges may be reviewed and adjusted as the Chancellor and the Trustees deem appropriate.

(b) The Chancellor or designee shall assign each Management Personnel Plan position to one of the four grade levels within the Management Personnel Plan. The assignment of a position to a particular grade level shall be based on an assessment of the skills, knowledges, and other qualifications needed to satisfactorily perform the position's assigned duties as well as the nature and complexity of the program or organizational unit managed or supervised by the position, the scope of management or supervisorial responsibility, job demands, extent of independent decision making authority, accountability, and impact of policies administered and/or decisions made. Working and organizational titles devised by the appointing power may be used to describe a Management Personnel Plan position and the assignment of a position to a grade level may vary from campus to campus depending on an assessment of the circumstances and factors on each campus.

(c) The Chancellor or designee may review and change the grade level to which a position in the Management Personnel Plan has been assigned using the criteria of subdivision (b). A Management Personnel Plan position shall remain in the grade level to which the position is assigned until a different grade level is assigned by the Chancellor or designee.