We believe that:

• People want to do a good job, to get satisfaction from their work, and to be appropriately recognised and rewarded in return.
• People want to feel that they are making progress and learning new things at work.
• People want to be managed by someone who has a genuine interest in their career and their development.
• Regular, honest and open communication is the key to achieving understanding, respect and progress at work. 
• More is usually achieved by (wherever possible) playing to, and developing, a person’s strengths, rather than by asking them to do more of things they are less good at.
• Being effective and enjoying work is often to do with how we do the job as well as what we do, so P&DR looks at our ‘soft skills’ (or ‘behaviours’) as well as the tasks we are doing and the results we are trying to achieve.

• P&DR will be offered to all staff 
• Every reviewing manager and senior reviewer will be (re)trained in the use of P&DR, with a focus on making it a valuable use of everyone’s time
• There will be more emphasis than before on the reviewee to ensure the review is effective by preparing for the review and contributing to the meeting 
• Every review meeting will, as standard, look at development needs, career/job aspirations and scope for advancement. 
• Information from the reviews will now be shared, in a limited way, with other parties, to help make sure things happen as a result of the review commitments. 
• Your Senior Reviewer will have access to your P&DR to ensure it has been completed, suitable objectives have been set, development needs have been discussed and the overall P&DR is of a good standard. 
• Some (non-sensitive) elements of your P&DR will be shared with other parts of the University to help with the achievement of your objectives, e.g. requests for any changes in teaching allocation or development needs to plan training.

Reviewee - there is a key responsibility on each of us to prepare well for our own P&DR meetings

Reviewer - The primary role of the reviewer is to set up and conduct the P&DR meeting in a way that enables reviewer and reviewee to get to the core issues relating to the reviewee’s work

Senior Reviewer - In this new role, the Senior Reviewer will be responsible for oversight of the effectiveness of the P&DRs carried out in their areas.