Personnel development at the HSZG

The implementation of a human resources development strategy that strengthens the organization and supports employees remains both an important area of focus and a challenge at universities and colleges.

Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences is making great strides in this area, as the recently concluded negotiations on the performance agreement with the SMWK for the years 2017–2020 elevated the development of a human resources development strategy to a cross-cutting priority. This is a goal that university leadership has had its sights set on for some time.

For Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, ensuring and enhancing the quality of teaching and research, ensuring and increasing staff satisfaction, and promoting early-career faculty are at the heart of human resources development.

The first good steps toward stronger staff development are already in place:

• a flexible work schedule and
• regular employee-supervisor meetings have been introduced;
• in addition, internal continuing education programs and
• work-from-home models are currently in the pilot phase.

A university-wide policy on workplace training initiatives is currently being developed. In 2017, the focus will also be on workplace health promotion and workplace inclusion, which will be expanded into a comprehensive workplace Health Management program in the medium term.

Other areas of focus for future human resources development include, among other things, supporting organizational change processes with regard to task and structural analyses, personnel planning, recruitment, and training, as well as enhancing human resources services.

To support this increasingly important set of tasks, the University Executive Board has allocated a part-time position to the Human Resources and Legal Division in order to sustainably establish human resources development for central services and support processes at the University of Zittau/Görlitz.

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