Performance and Development Review

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All staff, including the Vice Chancellor, have a PDR.

The review meeting happens once a year, with an optional mid-year review. For details about the University PDR scheme see the on-line PDR DVD resource and/or the PDR Guidance Notes (PDF: 251KB).

The reviewer and the reviewee agree a date for the meeting. Both prepare in advance, by using the forms provided to guide their thoughts. They meet in private for around an hour, and discuss topics such as the reviewee’s achievements in the past year and training and development needs for the coming year.

If you are in an administrative, professional, technical or operational role Success Factors will be discussed during the PDR meeting. For further information on Success Factors please see the Success Factors web site or the document below.

The key points and actions from the meeting are recorded on the review form and it is sent to the relevant head of academic unit/service unit or next level of management for sign-off.

The documents remain private throughout the process. They will be seen only by the reviewee, the reviewer and the next level of management.

Should the reviewee be within their probationary period, the final pages of the PDR form should be completed by the reviewer, removed from the form and sent back to Human Resources. For further information on the probation process please go to the Human Resources web page or contact your local HR team.

A PDR should be recorded on SAP, via Manager’s desktop, after the review meeting has been held. As per the PDR Guidance, the PDR form should be completed normally within two weeks of the meeting.

Any probationary discussions or interim reviews should also be recorded on SAP via Manager’s desktop.

Training information is available on the ISS web page.

Information in this section:

Please note that the PDR forms were updated in August 2010 to incorporate probation as part of the PDR process, to reinforce PDR and avoid duplication of effort.