General Manager, Human Resource Operations
- Role
- People Management and Development's - organisational chart
- PMD mission
- Policies and processes
- Forms and instructions
- Staff development and training
- Contact details
The General Manager, Human Resource Operations, People Management and Development (PMD) reports directly to the Executive Director, Corporate Services. The General Manager is assisted by a management team comprising the Manager, Employment Services; Manager, Recruitment; Manager, Communications; Manager, Workforce Development; Manager, Workforce Planning; Manager, Health, Safety and Environment; and Manager, Remuneration and Benefits.
The General Manager's Office provides leadership in contemporary staff management to assist the University in achieving its strategic objectives.
PMD aims to provide leadership to assist the University to adopt and manage changes, to innovate, to share and to communicate a longer term strategic vision, to provide support to staff in decision making, to encourage risk taking, to model behaviour and to recognise contributions and achievements.
Role
The General Manager's Office has the overall responsibility for ensuring best practice is achieved in the following main areas:
- Workforce planning: is aimed at ensuring that the University people structures and systems are in line with and contribute to achieving the University's strategic objectives. It also aims at ensuring that people with the right skills and abilities are available to meet organisational goals.
- Staff Professional Development: aims to improve organisational effectiveness and the performance of staff through training, development and education and our Performance Development and Review System.
- 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. Its individual elements include probation and induction, staff management and supervision, performance management, incremental salary advancement, ethics and official conduct, and strategies and procedures for dealing with performance or behavioural problems.
- Staff 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.
Forms and instructions
Staff development and training
Contact details
Dr Janis Shaw
General Manager, Human Resource Operations
People Management and Development
Phone: 08 8946 6494
Fax: 08 8946 7211
Email: janis.shaw@cdu.edu.au
