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Performance & Development Reviews

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P&DR meetings are the single most important way in which the University enables each and every individual to perform to the best of their abilities and fulfil their professional aims and ambitions.

Following feedback from the Staff Survey we have reviewed and simplified our P&DR processes.

Our philosophy

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.
  • 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 behaviours as well as the tasks we are doing and the results we are trying to achieve.

Key features of our scheme

  • All staff should expect to participate in P&DR
  • Reviewees and reviewers have an equal part to play in preparing for and participating in P&DR.
  • Every review conversation includes development needs, career/job aspirations and scope for progression.  
  • 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.
  • P&DR should not cover personal or sensitive topics – it’s a role focussed conversation. Personal and sensitive matters are too important to wait for P&DR and should be discussed as a matter of urgency as soon as they arise.