Everyone within the Economics community has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. Fostering a collegiate working environment is important to us all. Help to ensure that ‘Respect’ is embedded into our departmental working practices by:
Email Etiquette
- Respond to your emails in a timely manner.
- Think before sending an email, it’s easier to cause offence through a badly written email as it lacks the context and dialogue of a real conversation – when you send an email, ensure your language and tone is courteous and not patronising, a conversation may be quicker than an email.
- Avoid using capital letters in emails as this may be perceived as shouting/yelling at the recipient.
- Avoid using emotive language.
- Consider utilising the ‘delay send’ function if emailing colleagues outside of normal business hours.
Departmental Meetings
6. If you have been allocated time in the workload model to be part of a committee, attend the meeting and if you are unable to attend, let the meeting organiser know so meetings are not delayed.
7. When attending meetings, play your part, but allow others to speak – it’s difficult to note a meeting when individuals talk across each other;