Staff made their displeasure felt in the last staff survey – and that’s in the bits that are released

Less low than high-lights released mid-year include two-thirds of staff saying Murdoch U is not much of a place to work – so what, people want to know, is the bits not released. The campus branch of the National Tertiary Education Union asked Interim DVC Romy Lawson and Chancellor Gary Smith for the whole survey back in July but got a nothing-doing reply from People and Culture Director Joe Perkins who said “individual leaders and managers” were “sharing and discussing” detailed results with staff and there would be “action plans at each local area.” Plus, the union had only to ask for a meeting to hear all about it.

Which does not appear quite what the comrades had in mind.

But not to worry, Professor Lawson will be on the case until she leaves (for Flinders U) at year-end. Acting Chancellor Ross Holt tells staff the IVC will be dedicated “to actions related to the survey,” and, along with the Senior Executive Group, “has identified priority areas for change.”

Perhaps this will calm things down or perhaps Newtown’s Third Law (of HR) will apply, “for every action, there is an equal and opposite action.”