The principles for excellent work

The Principles of Excellent Work 2021–2025 at Turku University of Applied Sciences describe the goals of the management, operations and the culture of well-being at work within our community. The aim of the principles is to support our strategy and especially the activities according to the value of boosting competence. The principles include amongst other things:

Community orientation and the Turku UAS for everyone

We are an inspiring higher education community of courageous experts. We emphasize encouraging, professional and enabling leadership. We encourage an honest and constructive discussion and feedback culture.

In our operations, we are committed to the programme of sustainable development and responsibility of Finnish universities of applied sciences, and the programme’s promises to act as an economically, ecologically, culturally and socially responsible employer.

Competence development and sharing

Competence and sharing it are at the core of our operations. We renew society with competence and creativity in education, research, development and innovation activities and business.

We encourage our staff and enable them to increase their level of education and competence taking the strategic focus areas, changes in the operational environment and the competence required by the tasks into account.

Staff recruitment and career progress

Through our recruitments, we want to obtain the best experts in the field in our community – those who have excellent work community skills in addition to competence. We utilize a consistent and equal recruitment process.

We utilize a career path model, in which the tasks are placed at different levels of the career path according to the difficulty level of the task. You can progress on the career path by applying for a task at a different level of the career path. There are separate career paths for teaching staff and other experts. We promote the opportunity of the staff to move between these two career paths.

Achieving excellent results with well-being at work

A well-being personnel is the prerequisite of a successful higher education institution. Through the result-orientation of the work, the well-being of the staff is reflected also in the students and cooperation with working life.

We support the well-being of the staff comprehensively by considering the physical, psychological, social and mental dimensions. We invest in prevention.

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