DTU’s Work Culture

Background

DTU’s Work Culture is aimed at all DTU employees. The purpose is to describe key elements of DTU’s Work Culture. DTU’s Work Culture is intended to help define employee responsibility at DTU, and what knowledge is useful to navigate smoothly in DTU’s organizational landscape.

For a number of years, DTU has been dedicated to professionalizing its approach to dialogue and collaboration. Large parts of DTU’s Work Culture is a reproduction of an orally transmitted organizational culture that has evolved through a persistent focus on supporting DTU as a role model of efficient university management.

DTU’s Work Culture is intended as a counterpart to the DTU Leadership Foundation. In several places, the text in DTU’s Work Culture is a reflection of the content of the DTU Leadership Foundation, but it has been written with the angle of employee responsibility at DTU. DTU’s Work Culture describes how we collaborate at DTU, and emphasizes that managers and employees must continuously align their expectations in terms of responsibility and tasks. At DTU we believe that management, dialogue and collaboration between manager and employee are crucial prerequisites for self-management at DTU.

Content

DTU’s Work Culture introduces a number of key DTU concepts such as DTU’s values, self-management, the management hierarchy, the typical decision-making process, diversity, high academic ambitions, and the many co-determination options. In DTU’s Work Culture, the management responsibility for aligning expectations regarding goals and framework is also highlighted as an important precondition for ensuring that the employees can be proactive and self-managing in a meaningful way.

DTU’s Work Culture also describes DTU’s constant focus on ensuring that neither visible nor invisible barriers prevent talents from developing and pursuing a career at DTU. These efforts are supported by the fact that DTU expects its employees to show mutual respect for one another and to treat each other as equals, irrespective of gender, age, education, ethnic origin, etc.

DTU’s Work Culture is the result of a broad organizational involvement and has been driven by a working group under the auspices of the Cooperation and Joint Consultation Committee. If you have any questions about DTU’s Work Culture, we recommend discussing it with your manager and/or contact your HR partner.

 

You can read DTU’s Work Culture in its entirety here. 

 

If you have any comments or questions about the DTU’s Work Culture, please contact Nina Fog at nfo@adm.dtu.dk. If you would like a hard copy version of DTU's Work Culture, you are welcome to contact Tine: tiol@dtu.dk.