Guidelines and work culture
Our culture. Our compass. Our future.
As a university, we shape the future with bright minds, favourable framework conditions and a management culture that provides orientation and enables development. In this way, we remain an attractive employer.
Our management mission statement
Leadership means taking responsibility, shaping things together and strategically developing your own area. Transparent processes, openness to new ideas and the active involvement of all employees form the foundation for this.
In terms of shared leadership, involve employees in a participatory manner and, if possible, distribute management tasks among several people.
Finding yourself in your own role
Use your own resources responsibly
Creating time and space for reflection
Promote your own further development
Recognising and accepting your own limits
Recognising personal values and incorporating them into your own leadership
Ensure the ability to work in one's own area of responsibility and team, take employees' ideas and suggestions seriously and thus promote the creative power of all employees and their enjoyment of working together.
Create an atmosphere conducive to learning & promote the further development of your own employees
Provide resources and create framework conditions to ensure the team's ability to work
Proactively promote young talent among existing employees
Utilise diversity and a variety of perspectives in the team
- Create rules of cooperation
- Recognise performance
Establish transparent communication and decision-making processes.
Responsible promotion of junior researchers by making our own network available
Creating an interdisciplinary network to promote research topics at the University of Graz
Take responsibility, develop strategically and ensure the ability of the department and team to work.
Consciously promote innovation in the team
Translate overall university goals to the work in your own unit
Effecting and successfully introducing change
Ensure results-orientated leadership
- Ensure effectiveness in action