Employee’s Mission Statement
The mission statement serves to clearly define the operations of the administration at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences. We strive to avoid gaps in the responsibility shared by fields and resources and to provide customer-oriented service.We aim to provide incentives for activities that promote business, achievement and ecological activities. We are strengthening the performance, motivation and capabilities of administrative staff at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences.Issues related to the balance among work, study and family may also arise in the context of higher education. The Bremen University of Applied Sciences considers “family” as all types of life partnerships in which staff and students find themselves, including those in the private and familiar sphere and in which long-term social responsibility for others is undertaken.
As a “family-responsive” university, the Bremen University of Applied Sciences’ mission statement includes in particular a sensitivity towards, and high degree of acceptance of private-family situations. In this respect, we strive especially to improve work opportunities and access to obtaining qualifications for staff, as well as supporting increasingly family-friendly conditions, in order to better integrate work and study within the lives of all students.
The Bremen University of Applied Sciences has formalised its commitment to this goal through the present mission statement.
Mission As an equally important part of the University, the administration develops its own profile and image, which it uses to compete with other institutions of higher learning for students and funding. Customer Orientation The administration views the users of its services as customers whose satisfaction is both aimed at and evaluated. Efficiency Our economical use of resources, costs and transparency serves to increase our efficiency, as do continual development and quality control. Staff Orientation Relations among administrative staff are characterised by openness, trust and respect.
The Public Administration system has become increasingly complex over the last few years; social developments constantly require new methods and tasks, which makes the system more difficult to manage. Administrative departments in higher education institutions share the challenges resulting from these developments. By introducing global budgeting, which gives institutions responsibility for the entire budget, universities have been given the opportunity to meet these challenges with new tools and methods. The Bremen administration has introduced a “New Management Model,” which includes decentralised (local) budget management with increased responsibility being assumed by the component areas, merging of field and resource responsibility, results/use orientation and management through targeted agreements; the Bremen University of Applied Sciences administration has undertaken to develop a flexible system that will be able to react more quickly to the conditions of fewer resources and increased requirements. A large majority of University members have, after thorough discussion, agreed upon the following ten guiding principles, which I would like to introduce on the next few pages.
Jürgen-Peter Henckel
Head of Administration of Hochschule Bremen