HR Transformation

At DTU, talent is diverse. It exists across many different roles and job functions and at various stages of a career. Career paths at DTU are designed to allow for both professional and personal development across all types of roles throughout working life.

DTU educates talent for both academia and industry through its PhD programme. We work to ensure that our early career talents in the PhD and Master’s programmes graduate from DTU with strong competencies that prepare them both to work as engineers and to take on leadership roles in organisations.

Our focus areas for talent development include:

• Attracting the right talent
• PhD education
• Tenure Track
• Career paths and competence development for both academic (VIP) and technical/administrative (TAP) staff

Leadership at DTU takes many forms and is carried out across many different roles – not only in formal leadership positions. New forms of learning and platforms provide broader access to leadership development.

At DTU, leadership development takes place in collaboration with others working on similar leadership themes. Our approach to leadership development is innovative and incorporates new leadership perspectives and concepts.

Within leadership, we work with:

• DTU’s Leadership Foundation
• Leadership feedback
• Leadership education and training
• Different leadership roles
• Leadership forums

At DTU, we strive to create a healthy, safe and inclusive working environment where everyone can thrive. For us, a good working environment is about balance throughout the entire working life. This includes both the psychological and physical working environment and applies to everyone who participates in our physical and digital spaces.

Corporate HR collaborates across the organisation and brings together relevant stakeholders around shared working environment initiatives. Our approach is preventive and dialogue based, with a focus on:

• Workplace assessments (APV) and wellbeing dialogues
• A safe and healthy psychological working environment
• Prevention of harassment and sexism
• Prevention of stress
• Flexible work arrangements
• HR policies
• DTU’s Working Environment Organisation

HRT ensures that Corporate HR has well functioning IT solutions that support the organisation’s needs. We continuously develop and improve HR’s digital processes and ensure a high quality user experience. Digitalisation and AI are a natural part of our work and are integrated into the way we solve tasks and design processes.

We see diversity as a strength. The best solutions emerge when different perspectives come together in an inclusive community where it feels safe and easy to ask curious questions.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are an integral part of DTU. We continuously work to embed these principles in our culture, processes, systems and structures so that they shape how we solve tasks, lead and collaborate.