The quality of the university’s core activities depends on the staff performing the work. The University of Aarhus has a large number of committed and loyal staff members.

The university wants to be a workplace where the staff have an opportunity for both professional and personal development and as much independence as possible in the planning of their work. It is the university’s intention to utilise the many opportunities that exist for internal mobility across the entire organisation. In this way, it intends to ensure that its staff members have the necessary opportunities for developing skills and competences, and that they are able to maximise their talent throughout their lifelong association with the university.

It is the university’s policy that the staff should be as diverse as possible, as this is the best way to ensure flexibility and to create an inspiring and creative workplace. The university wants management at all levels to place special emphasis on the composition of its staff in terms of skills, age, gender and nationality, and it is important that the university’s human resources (HR) development strategy makes allowance for complementary competences.

The aims and objectives are:

• to compete for the best staff
• to have strategic competence development schemes in place for all staff groups
• to ensure greater diversity among the university staff.

The University of Aarhus has decided:

• to establish an internal HR organisation
• to develop a work environment and incentive systems that promote motivation, work satisfaction and innovation
• to establish continuing education programmes that ensure that university staff further develop the skills and competences necessary to carry out the university’s core activities
• to adjust procedures to promote diverse recruitment.