Values Programme Workshop 23 April 2009
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The Values Programme Workshop was designed to be part of a
suite of involvement and consultative activities to produce an initial
set of meaningful values for Heriot-Watt University, owned and
understood across the University Community. This feedback paper
outlines the main outputs from the Workshop.
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The Workshop agreed that to be understood as a “value”, a concept
must fulfil all the following criteria:
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It must be something that can be adopted by an individual or an
organisation as a whole
Must be legal
Needs to be clear and unambiguous
Realistic within the University context
Credible
Justifiable within our context
All inclusive
Ethical/honest
Lasting
The Workshop identified the following values.
Generated Value
Definition
Valuing
Equality and diversity, freedom of thought, fairness,
People/Respect/Integrity inclusion, honest and ethical working practice.
Collaboration (internally Partnership working, joined up activity, sharing
& externally)
resources.
Pursuit of Excellence
Excellence in work and study. Academic
Excellence and professionalism.
Forward Thinking and Ambitious, innovative and enabling flexible working
Flexible
practice.
Responsible
Stewardship
Service Focus
Collegiality
Creating Opportunities
Nurturing Potential
Internationalisation
Transparent,
open
and
ethical
management/governance.
Excellent student experience and support services
meeting the needs of the University community.
Interdisciplinary activity with enhanced student
experience and academic practice.
Participative and success led processes valuing
staff, students and knowledge transfer.
Investing in people via recognition, reward and
celebrating achievements.
Integration of international and intercultural
dimension to learning, teaching and research.
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Next Steps
The Workshop outlined a range of further activity to be taken
forward to further narrow the generated Values into a definitive list
for the Values Programme which will be used to ensure a shared
understanding across the whole university of the University’s values.
The next steps are as follows:
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Structured face-to-face interviews with the Leadership Team
Input to Staff Survey via the People Theme Team
Discussion paper for the Strategy Review Group
Input to School/Support Service Management Groups via
presentation/report
Further activity to be determined following the production of a
definitive values list.
Updates on further activity will be made available via the People
Theme Team in due course.
Values Programme
The People Theme Team
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