Organisation

The Department of Organisation and Human Resourcesis headed by the  Director of Organisation and Human Resources resources who reports directly to the Director of Oslo University College. The department is divided into two sections; Section for Administrative services and Archive, and Section for Recruitment and Organisational development. In total there are about 25 employees in the department.

Aims

The overall guidelines for the work and activities of the Director of Organisation and Human Resources are established in The Oslo University College (OUC) Personnel Policy, which states that the OUC shall

• stimulate all its employees towards development, growth and learning to meet existing and future challenges;
• have a personnel policy that takes into consideration important issues for each employee at work, in the family, in their spare time and for their health so that the workers’ capacity can be used to the best for OUC;
• create and maintain a working environment that is characterised by challenges and work satisfaction in a safe and stimulating environment;
• aim to achieve equal treatment of men and women in all areas of work;
• have a wages policy which contributes towards recruiting, developing, and keeping well qualified personnel as employees.

Areas of work

• Case work and advisory work related to working environment issues (courses in handling conflicts, individual employee reviews, work organising, developing welfare and culture activities, etc.)
• Conduct wage negotiations with the trade unions on behalf of the college management
• Hold regular meetings with trade unions to discuss issues of importance to employees
• Case work and advisory work with law related issues
• Establish and update personnel guidelines
• Case work related to pensions
• Advisory work regarding rules and regulation for vacation and various kinds of leave
• Development of senior staff policy
• Establish and update post and archive routines, and carrying out regular archive services
• Developing and arranging management programs
• Arranging various kinds of work related courses for employees (i.e. PC-courses, courses for case workers, courses related to physical and psychic work environment)
• Recruitment of new personnel
• Guidelines for the teaching staff
• Work with gender related issues
• Post, delivery and front desk services