Issue - meetings

The Interim Head of People Services submitted a report providing an updating on the Employee Engagement Action Plan, the detail of which was set out in the report now submitted and Essential Reference Paper ‘B’. 

In response to a query from the Chairman regarding response rates on PDRs across all Council sections,  the Director of Finance and Support Services provided an update on how PDRs were designed to achieve a level of consistency and how frequently they were held.  The Director of Finance and Support Services explained that she would ask the Interim Head of Human Resources, who would be joining the Council on 1 April 2013, to undertake spot checks across the Council.  In response to a query from Councillor N Wilson regarding PDRs, and staff questions raised within the context of the bi-annual Staff Survey, Officers agreed to circulate to Members the questions posed within the Survey.

In response to a query from Councillor J Ranger regarding how the Council communicated with staff, the Director of Finance and Support Service provided an update on what formal and informal information links the Council used and how this was disseminated to staff.

Members noted the report and were pleased to see how many of the actions within the Employee Engagement Action Plan had been achieved.

RESOLVED – that the report be noted.