At the end of this year all remaining grade 10 staff with job titles of Principal Lecturer or Reader will take a big pay cut. According to the Senate minutes late last year, there are only 7 left (5 others had \u201cplanned exits\u201d at the end of the last \u201ctransition\u201d \u2014 a management euphemism for forced retirement or redundancy). Of all the unspeakable behaviour of Management towards its staff, the several years\u2019 pressure to meet the new shifting standard is surely the worst example of abuse perpetrated on the staff. It\u2019s no wonder that the same minutes note the proportion of grade 10 staff is falling as they\u2019ve headed for the exits. Back in the early days of this pogrom, one of Dissenter\u2019s contacts at another university remarked on how many job applicants they were getting from Kingston people.<\/p>\n
With typical arrogance, the SMT claims that the 70% transition rate to AP is a \u201cremarkable achievement\u201d. What is remarkable is that the University can still function in the face of such monstrous management practice. Good management would never have put staff through such a stressful and sapping waste of goodwill and effort. An automatic transferral to the new job title would have been proper and sensible. The architect, Julius \u2018the Rat\u2019 Weinberg has long gone, leaving behind a tottering university, but what of Essex boy, the HR Director who had his dirty fingers all over the grade 10 debacle? Does the recent job ad for the post mean he\u2019s off, or is this just a sham to put him there permanently. Given the standard of the management recruits at Kingston, one might fear the latter.<\/p>\n
Any PL or Readers left please do let the Blog know the situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At the end of this year all remaining grade 10 staff with job titles of Principal Lecturer or Reader will take a big pay cut. According to the Senate minutes late last year, there are only 7 left (5 others … Continue reading