Employee dialogues
All employees should be given the opportunity to develop the skills necessary to perform their work tasks, and should be given access to necessary resources. As a manager at Uppsala University, you are responsible for ensuring that your employees are given the opportunity to have an employee dialogue each year. This dialogue gives you the opportunity to get feedback on your leadership as a manager and relevant information about your employees, your working group and the activities of your organisation.
On an overall level, the dialogues should contribute to the employee’s understanding of the University’s Mission, Goals and Strategies and highlight the employee's role in development of the organisation. Another important function is to create a shared understanding of the employee’s working environment, both organisationally and socially and physically.
The employee dialogue takes place between the manager and employee, and should primarily focus on the current situation, the future, and development in relation to the assignment of the organisation and the employee. It serves as evidence of the ongoing dialogue over the year and supplements the raise review. For doctoral students, teachers and researchers, it may be relevant to have supplementary discussions about academic career development with e.g. a supervisor, research group leader or professor responsible for the programme.
The employee dialogue should culminate in a jointly agreed plan for what the employee and manager should do to ensure the employee's and the organisation's continued development and good working environment.
As part of Uppsala University’s work to identify and support co-workers who are subjected to threats and violence at home or in the work place, a number of questions regarding this issue has been added to the support template. By systematically investigating issues of threats and violence with all our co-workers, it will be possible to lower the threshold to ask for help. The link below leads to information for managers on domestic violence and guidance on how to raise questions on threats and violence:
Link: Domestic violence – What can you do as manager
Support template for employee dialogue, pdf
Support template for employee dialogue, word
Course for managers in the field of employee dialogues In English is offered on demand, please contact chefsutveckling@uadm.uu.se
Contact
HR-specialists at the HR-department
Nyckelord: utvecklingssamtal, medarbetarsamtal