Strategic Directions 2006-2010
Capability - our competitive advantage
The University of Sydney attracts, rewards and retains staff of outstanding quality and international standing who contribute to our reputation nationally, regionally and internationally.
As we move towards a future requiring the University to be self-sustaining, our staff will face and meet the challenge of continuous improvement and increasing responsibility and accountability, attaining higher levels of performance and service delivery, better compliance with legal, policy and best practice requirements and improved transparency. Our academic and administrative managers and human resources professionals share responsibility for enhancing the capability of our staff and helping them to meet this challenge.
Our priorities are to:
- create staff development programs which support leadership in teaching, world-class research and best practice organisational professionalism and performance
- create a culture in which responsibility for learning and development is shared between staff and managers, and which helps staff to transform both their performance and their career, and
- create a robust performance management and development system which appropriately recognises and supports early career academic and general staff and ensures that the University is maximising the effective contribution of all staff.
By 2010, we will have increased staff capability in core performance areas, introduced an intellectual capital management strategy with best practice metrics and reporting, transformed the human resources services delivery model with enhanced online accessibility, and integrated staff learning and development University-wide.
Standards of performance and benchmarks
- Improved recruitment and retention of top performing academic and general staff
- Continuous improvement in staff quality and learning capacity
- Better staff performance measurement and performance reward
- Continuous improvement in leadership and managerial practice
- Flexible and innovative retention strategies for outstanding staff