UiO’s personnel policy shall help the university to meet its academic objectives, which are based on chapter 1 of the Act relating to universities and university colleges.
The personnel policy shall serve as a common platform on which personnel-related administrative measures throughout the entire university will be based, and shall contribute to a cohesive practice of the personnel-related administrative framework.
The leadership and staff of UiO have a mutual obligation to follow-up on the positions and objectives laid down in the personnel policy.
Fundamental values
- UiO shall be an attractive work place by virtue of employment conditions that provide meaningful job duties, opportunities for personal development, a good working environment and an institutional culture characterised by a high level of academic and social involvement.
- Academic autonomy, integrity and intellectual freedom are fundamental values that guide UiO’s activities, and these shall be reflected in the personnel policy.
- UiO shall have open processes, good communication and active dialogue between the leadership and staff with regard to the operation and development of the university’s activities. Key values for UiO as a work place are equality, respect, participation and co-determination.
- UiO shall have critical debate and freedom of expression based on fundamental values such as the search for truth, democracy and freedom of the individual to formulate personal opinion.
- UiO assumes that every employee wants to do a good job. Individual effort and initiative shall receive a positive response, and interaction between colleagues shall be characterised by mutual tolerance, respect and open-mindedness.
- UiO shall be an employer that sets high standards with regard to expertise, effort and results, while providing employees with good academic and collegial support and opportunities for further professional and personal development.
- UiO shall focus on developing employees who possess a combination of expertise, commitment, independence and sense of responsibility.
- During restructuring, the employer shall emphasise the need for openness and security in the process, and attend to obligations of a legal and ethical nature related to the interests of the staff. The individual employee is likewise obliged to contribute to sound solutions, including through active participation in the restructuring process.
- UiO shall integrate gender equality as a conscious component in all its activities, treat all employees as equals, and counteract all forms of discrimination and unreasonable differential treatment.
Personnel policy guidelines
UiO’s personnel policy shall provide latitude for action in order to promote effective adaptation to changing challenges and alterations in framework conditions, while maintaining a firm basis in the following principles:
A. Recruitment
UiO will:
- develop a targeted, proactive recruitment policy, and actively make use of available instruments for recruiting and retaining valued expertise;
- conduct long-term, cohesive planning in order to recruit and retain skilled employees, and adapt the university’s overall expertise to its own priorities and the needs of society;
- establish conditions that enable researchers, research groups and research communities to achieve a high, international level of academic merit;
- make a special effort to improve the recruitment of groups that represent significant, unused potential for the university: women, various minority groups and international researchers at an early stage in their careers.
B. Personnel follow-up and competence development
UiO will:
- have a system to follow-up the individual employee, including through regular supervisor-employee m