Guest post by Mistleflower:
Let’s hope that Mr Pavey has, now he’s been made aware of what’s been going on,‘had a word’. The test of this will be the future behaviour of the new management but at least some context has now been established. For now, the petty and vindictive treatment of the Humanities department ( or those few who remain) needs to be abandoned.
As far as the use of anonymity is concerned, this is unfortunately inevitable when a climate of fear has been intentionally introduced by managers as a way of closing down open comment and discussion. There is a simple solution to this: regular and acknowledged communication based on mutual respect between management and genuine representatives of staff at scheduled meetings which are not unilaterally cancelled (or ‘postponed)’ and through which management and genuine staff representatives attempt to come to agreement in a civilised, professional and collegiate fashion. If someone hasn’t already stolen the name it could perhaps be called the ‘JCC’.
Michael Pavey, head of Children and Families for Brent, yesterday
posted this reply to a comment on my earlier post ‘Deafening silence on Copland victimisation
allegations’. LINK
‘ I met with the Unions last week and discussed these
matters in detail. It's not appropriate to disclose our discussions with
anonymous people on blogs but I'll continue to meet them and to take their
concerns very seriously’
I may be being
optimistic but, reading between the lines, it may be that Mr Pavey was as
dismayed as Copland staff were by the tactics attempted by Mr Marshall and Mr John since they were drafted in to the school a few
weeks ago: victimisation, misuse of
capability procedures and threats of
redundancy to those heads of department
unwilling to set up their own colleagues for redundancy. Let’s hope that Mr Pavey has, now he’s been made aware of what’s been going on,‘had a word’. The test of this will be the future behaviour of the new management but at least some context has now been established. For now, the petty and vindictive treatment of the Humanities department ( or those few who remain) needs to be abandoned.
As far as the use of anonymity is concerned, this is unfortunately inevitable when a climate of fear has been intentionally introduced by managers as a way of closing down open comment and discussion. There is a simple solution to this: regular and acknowledged communication based on mutual respect between management and genuine representatives of staff at scheduled meetings which are not unilaterally cancelled (or ‘postponed)’ and through which management and genuine staff representatives attempt to come to agreement in a civilised, professional and collegiate fashion. If someone hasn’t already stolen the name it could perhaps be called the ‘JCC’.
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