Management
The employees give recommendations for good management
The faculty's employees want more clarity and greater involvement in the faculty's decisions.
In the autumn of 2020, eight recommendations for good management were made by a group of the faculty's employees. All faculty employees were invited to participate in the work on the recommendations, and approx. 40 scientific and administrative staff contributed to the content. In March 2021, they were presented to the faculty's management group.
– I am pleased that the recommendations are very concrete and give some clear signals about where we can do better as management. There is both low-hanging fruit and the long haul, and it will take a dedicated effort to reach the finish line. Therefore, the recommendations play an important role in the faculty's new strategy and are prioritised as one of the first initiatives, says Dean Marianne Holmer.
The recommendations have the following overarching themes: Clarity, Democracy, Transparency, Fairness, Involvement and Reduction of Stress.
What should happen to the recommendations now?
The recommendations have been incorporated into the faculty's new strategy, where in the coming years we will work to implement concrete proposals from the group's work.
As a first step, the management team has chosen to look more closely at
- how the faculty can make the management mandates clearer at all levels,
- including focusing separately on how we improve the section management, which is still a new management team at the faculty, and
- how we can improve the involvement of the employees in the decisions made at the faculty.
Good management will be the theme of the management group's seminar in August, where we will discuss concrete actions and the involvement of councils, boards and committees in the further work.
Background to the process
For a long time, the union representative of the scientific staff, Kristian Debrabant, had been receiving various inquiries about challenges in relation to the working environment and management at the faculty. Against this background, Kristian, together with the chairman of the Academic Council, Rolf Fagerberg, and Dean Marianne Holmer, took the initiative for this work. The faculty's management did not participate in the specific work of preparing the recommendations, and anonymity was ensured.