Issue - meetings
Spotlight - Organisational Culture
Meeting: 14/06/2017 - Tower Hamlets Best Value Improvement Board (Item 6)
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To receive a presentation.
Minutes:
The Corporate Director for Resources and Divisional Director, Legal Services made a presentation to the Board, the details of this are appended to the minutes. The Board considered and discussed the presentation and noted the following matters:
- That the focus of the programme presently was organisational culture and governance.
- Success of the transformation programme would be measured by a number of methods including direct feedback and proxy measures.
- The process was owned by Corporate Leadership Team and respective senior leadership teams. It was acknowledged that strategies to reach remote staff were needed and the staff survey was a key tool in achieving this.
- The wellbeing and resilience of staff was being address via a number of measures including the development of a wellbeing policy and healthy workplace charter.
- A review of the Council’s constitution is being delivered in two tranches. The first was approved by Council earlier in 2017 and the second tranche will be presented to Council on 19 July 2017.
- Some elements of the Member Code of Code of Conduct had already been reviewed such as Licensing and Planning Codes. The Member/Officer and Member/Member protocols were also programmed for review and update.
- There has been a review of corporate structures and a programme to make permanent appointments to post that hither to have been filled on an interim basis.
- The Clear Up Project had completed its work and would make a report to Council.
The Board highlighted the following matters of concern arising from the discussion:
- The Member Code of Conduct
- There should be a properly resourced planned and communicated Member induction programme with facility for discussion incorporated.
- Progress on organisational culture should include measurable outcomes.
- The Council should consider how it will assess/evaluate whether it has progressed to become a learning organisation
- The Council should consider how it will identify and how it will track progress towards becoming a learning organisation
RESOLVED
That the presentation and discussion be noted.