Tag: Keith Ross
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Adding insult to injury: GCU management organise line manager workshops for ‘when you have to give bad news’ at GCU
In an incredibly insensitive e-mail to GCU all staff the GCU OD department are now publicly advertising workships for line-managers on ‘handling difficult conversations’. Described as ‘a range of resources available to staff to support during the restructuring process’ the e-mail image below is perhaps ‘worth a thousand words’, or at least more than a…
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Glasgow Caledonian needs a professional and mature approach to HR. It’s not what we’re getting
Whatever the consequences of the proposed re-structuring for staff including the hard pressed staff in HR, one person will not have to deal with the fallout. It seems clear from the cluster meetings held last Week that Keith Ross, the temporary head of HR, will be leaving in June. Keith, it is alleged, has been…
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GCU Management: Much of their financial speculations ‘based on projections’….(but ‘realistic’ projections…)
The trade unions at Glasgow Caledonian met with senior management for their second meeting on Wednesday 16th March to discuss the plans to make 95 staff redundant . EIS, UCU, UNITE and UNISON were all represented by members from GCU and full time officials apart from UCU who were represented by an official only. The…
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Report of Meeting with GCU Management Thursday 10th March
The trade union representatives had a meeting with Senior Management this morning from 10 – 12 to discuss the compulsory redundancies announced by management last Thursday evening and the imposition of a number of policies on staff by HR and Senior Management earlier in the year. The trade unions EIS, UCU, UNISON and UNITE were…
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Why Management Strategy at GCU is wrong
At 8am on 4th March, Principal Pamela Gillies announced in an e-mail to all staff that as a result of proposals presented to University Court by the Executive Board “a reduction of 95 support and administrative posts across the University may be necessary.” It was claimed that these proposals take place “against a background of…