Director, Office of Human Resource Services
Management Structure
The Director, Office of Human Resource Services, reports to the Executive Director, Corporate Services. The Director is assisted by a management team comprising the Manager, Employee Relations; Manager, HR Business Services; and the Manager, Health, Safety and Environment.
The Director's Office provides leadership in contemporary staff management and workplace relations to assist the University in achieving its strategic objectives.
Role
The Director's Office has the overall responsibility for ensuring best practice is achieved in the following main areas:
- Good management practice: aims to ensure fair and effective procedures and processes for the recruitment and deployment of people, thereby ensuring the best use of those staff members who will make most effective contribution to the University and to the community. 'Quality in selection' based on merit and equity is a fundamental consideration.
- Working conditions: aim to ensure the attraction and retention of staff, and the encouragement of staff performance, commitment and morale, through appropriate pay and conditions, including a safe, healthy and harmonious work environment.
- Performance management: aim to provide the crucial link between individual attitudes and behaviour and the overall culture and values of the University. Elements of performance management include probation and induction, staff management and supervision, performance reviews, incremental salary advancement, ethics and official conduct, and strategies and procedures for dealing with performance or behavioural problems.
- Employee relations aim to foster recognition of the interdependence of staff and management, and the need for staff participation in achieving organisational effectiveness, in encouraging individual performance and in linking individual and corporate goals.
Contact details
Lee Upton
Director
Office of Human Resource Services
Phone: 08 8946 6494
Fax: 08 8946 7211
Email: lee.upton@cdu.edu.au
