Objectives:

  • Provide employees with a work environment where teamwork is paramount, ideas are rewarded, creativity and risk-taking are encouraged,and successes are celebrated.
  • Encourage managers to be mentors and leadership role models to their staff.
  • Promote professional growth and development opportunities through an improved employee recruitment, selection, retention, and training process as outlined in the department’s Workforce Development Plan.
  • Assess job performance based on meaningful standards and measures.
  • Create an atmosphere of openness, trust, and support so employees can readily admit mistakes, assume responsibility, and apply resources to fix problems.
  • Promote work life balance.