Friesland College education teams will have more influence
Friesland College wants to give educational teams that include teachers and instructors more professional space and say. The MBO institution therefore cuts into management layers and scrapped a large number of director positions at the beginning of this month.
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“We have gone from twenty directors to eleven,” says Carlo Segers, chairman of the board of Friesland College. The training managers will also disappear over time. “We hope that education teams can respond more quickly to changes in this way. They get more influence. ”
Work floor
The teaching teams will receive more budget, so that they have time to focus on the new tasks and teachers can, for example, schedule themselves in consultation with the team. Segers: “We also want delegates from the various education teams to have a say in the policy at the school locations and at the organizational level. So that the voice of the shop floor resonates throughout the organization. Normally there were directors in such a meeting, but this way there is more input from the shop floor. ”
However, support will continue to be available for the education teams, for example HRM staff. “Teams can determine for themselves who they need in their team and draw up a job profile, the recruitment can be done by HRM.”
More fun
Jelte Hiemstra is a lecturer in Tourism at Friesland College and a member of the works council that approved the plans. He thinks this reorganization will make his work more fun. “Of course we have to see how it works out. The professional space must really arise and will become larger. It is exciting, but it is nice that fewer things will be imposed from above. Now you often depend on a manager if you want to do something else. Or will you be told 'no'.”
“A good development”, says AObdistrict manager Hayo Bohlken set the course of Friesland College. He was indirectly involved through the works council. “More money for education is always good. You often see in MBO that the number of managers is increasing, even though the sector is talking about self-managing teams.”
