Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R)/HR Award

News on HRS4R implementation at university and faculty level

Overview of activities implemented in the first half of 2025:

• 01/2025: review of the set-up of start-up grants for early career academics
• 01/2025: issue of Dean's Directive 1/2025 Salary and its components
• 02/2025: launch of a separate website on sexual harassment
• 02/2025: addition and training of a 2nd FI contact person for handling sexual harassment cases
• 03/2025: launch of e-course "Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer at Masaryk University" in IS
• 03/2025: faculty meeting on research project submission
• 03-05/2025: updating onboarding and offboarding e-courses for FI staff/employees, implementation of exit questionnaire
• 04/2025: CoFI break with FI leadership
• 04/2025: redesign of FI website - menu expanded to include a separate Careers item, restructuring and development of careers pages, new Pro Media website created
• 04/2025: hybrid training on the topic of increasing personal and collective safety at FI
• Ongoing: implementation of partial measures of the FI Gender Equality Plan 2024-2028
• Ongoing: participation in HR Award, Gender Equality Plan, New Employee, Learning and Development Coordinators working groups, participation in HR events, development of FI internal and external communication, support for FI staff development, cooperation with CERPEK

Training on personal and collective safety at FI

On 24 April 2025, a training on personal and collective safety at FI was held at FI, which was lectured by Mgr. Pavel Bojanovský, MU Security Manager. More than 40 academic and non-academic staff and employees of FI attended the training organized in a hybrid form.

The training focused mainly on:

• possibilities of increasing personal and collective security of employees,
• signals to be noticed, evaluated and not kept to oneself,
• scenarios of the most frequent violent attacks and the principles of behaviour during them,
• handling conflict communication situations (how to handle escalated communication, how to leave the office safely and ensure your safety comfort),
• incidents, their reporting and recording.

Information for FI staff and employees clearly in one place

A new signpost has been made available to increase awareness of the working environment and processes at FI, benefits, training and development opportunities, communication channels, as well as ethical and gender issues.

In the first half of 2024, FI launched a pilot of an onboarding e-course for new male and female FI employees to guide them through the adaptation process at their new workplace. The successful launch of the course for new recruits has shown that most of the information presented here may also be of interest to existing faculty staff, as the course content acts as a signpost to relevant information from various sources. The course is created using the Interactive Curriculum in IS MU, which offers a user-friendly display on PCs and mobile devices and allows administrators to easily update the content.

The e-course is published on the FI document server in IS MU.

The signpost covers all important information not only about the working environment and processes at Masaryk University and the Faculty of Informatics, but also offers an overview of employee benefits and a wide range of courses and training. A list of important faculty contacts or communication channels across the university may also be useful.

Is there a topic missing from the signpost? Email us at pers@fi.muni.cz and we'll be happy to add them.

For FI HR news, please visit the FI HR department's bulletin board in the MU Information System

Did you know that employee benefits at MU have expanded to include a contribution to a long-term investment product? Did you know that we have launched an information e-course in the IS for FI employees and an optional university e-course "Cyber Security Minimum for MU Employees"? Did you know that we have added new children's groups to the Elanek children's groups and also the Loučka babysitting corner? Did you know that the university sports club has prepared new clubs?

Various news and news from the personnel area are regularly published on the FI Personnel Department noticeboard in the IS MU. If you want to receive published news by email, please enable this functionality in IS.

Issuance of FI internal regulation: Dean's Directive 1/2025 Salary and its components for employees of the Faculty of Informatics

With effect from 1 January 2025, Dean's Directive 1/2025 Salary and its components for employees of the Faculty of Informatics has been issued. The Faculty Directive follows the MU Internal Wage Regulation, the MU Job Catalogue Directive, the MU Employee Evaluation Directive and the MU Collective Agreement and regulates, in accordance with the Labour Code, the remuneration of tribal employees of the Faculty of Informatics for work performed for FI in an employment relationship or on the basis of agreements on work performed outside the employment relationship.

The Directive describes in more detail the individual components of the wage applied at FI, as well as other wage rights of employees, the setting of the wage for creative leave or the setting of the wage for academic staff and female staff entering employment at FI.

The Directive also regulates remuneration under agreements for work outside the employment relationship and addresses the area of staff appraisal.

The Faculty of Informatics has adopted the FI Gender Equality Plan (Part 1)

The FI Gender Equality Plan was created on the basis of the outcomes and recommendations of the gender audit that FI conducted from April to September 2024 together with external experts from the Gender Information Centre NORA with methodological support from the MU Rector's Office.

The development of the FI Gender Audit and the FI Gender Equality Plan is part of the current Faculty HR Award Action Plan (HRS4R). The same was the case for the 1st Gender Audit and Plan in 2021. The FI Gender Audit covers the following key areas:

• Organizational objectives and institutional arrangements for gender equality policy,
• the organisation's culture and workplace relations,
• the gender dimension in research,
• HR and payroll policies,
• wellbeing and work-life balance.

The six-month audit process consisted of several quantitative and qualitative methods of data collection and analysis:

• Analysis of public and internal university and faculty documents, websites and social media. MU and FI networks,
• processing and analysis of statistical data,
• online questionnaire survey,
• 4 face-to-face focus groups,
• face-to-face and online individual interviews with male and female FI employees who expressed interest in the questionnaire survey.

The Faculty of Informatics adopted the FI Gender Equality Plan (Part 2)

The audit found that FI systematically and actively promotes gender equality and diversity. It has incorporated the principles of equal treatment and non-discrimination at faculty level. In 2024, the focus was on the development of the adaptation process for new employees, and the evaluation of non-academic male and female employees was introduced. FI also offers a wide range of arrangements for caring male and female staff, helping to reconcile work and personal/family life. Sub-topics for improvement or development have also been identified. A team of external experts proposed more than 30 measures covering 7 areas:

• Transforming organisational culture,
• work/parenting/life balance,
• recruitment and selection and functional progression,
• gender balance in leadership positions,
• measures against sexual harassment and other forms of gender-based violence,
• the gender dimension in research and innovation,
• studies and student population.

Suggested measures include, for example, the creation of mentoring programmes to support women's career development, awareness raising and training on the gender dimension in research, gender-based violence or gender-sensitive language, raising awareness of remuneration, benefits, complaints or anti-discrimination law, and the collection and evaluation of gender-segregated data. The implementation of these measures will be subject to regular annual evaluation and review.

We thank all participants in the gender audit for their participation. We greatly appreciate your feedback, your opinions and shared experiences. To share your suggestions for positive change at FI, please email pers@fi.muni.cz.

Updates on HRS4R implementation at university and faculty level

Overview of activities implemented in the 2nd half of 2024:

• 10/2024: implementation of face-to-face Cyber Security training for MU employees for FI administrative staff.
• 10/2024: completion of FI Equal Opportunity Audit and development of FI Gender Equality Plan 2024-2028
• 10/2024: launch of the e-course "Ethics and strategies for working with AI in teaching and learning" in IS
• 8/2024-10/2024: development and implementation of onboarding and offboarding e-courses for FI staff/employees, computerization of the FI exit certificate
• 8/2024-10/2024: implementation of evaluation of non-academic FI staff/employees
• 9/2024: launch of e-course "Cyber security minimum for MU employees" in IS
• 7/2024: launch of e-course "Social Security in Academic Environment" in IS
• Ongoing: participation in HR Award, Gender Equality Plan, Adaptation, Recruitment, Assessment, Postdoc, Training and Development Coordinators working groups, participation in HR events, development of FI internal and external communication, support for FI staff development, cooperation with CERPEK

Second MUNI HR Day

On 3 October 2024, the second edition of MUNI HR Day organized by the Department of Human Resources Management of the MU Rectorate took place. The aim of the meeting was to gain inspiration and practical tips from HR professionals from different working spheres and also to create a space for interesting networking.

MUNI HR Day programme:

• The topic of artificial intelligence. Is it really the future of (un)work?
• Company culture, organization development through people
• Talent management
• Appraisals, motivational interviewing, HR as a partner
• Networking among participants of the HR MUNI Day

Thanks to this event, we were able to get inspiration from well-known experts from the HR world and get an overview of current trends in HR.

New e-course "Cyber security minimum for MU employees"

The training offer for male and female FI employees was expanded with a new optional online course. In the e-course, you will learn how to create and manage strong passwords, secure your devices, recognize and report cybersecurity incidents, communicate securely and protect your data.

You can find the training in the relevant section of the Training application in the Information System. It contains seven thematic blocks and supplements the theory with practical advice. There is also a downloadable checklist containing 19 recommendations and measures you should implement to ensure personal and organisational cyber security. At the end of the training you will take a short test to verify the knowledge you have gained.

The training has been developed in relation to the obligations arising from Act No. 181/2014 on Cyber Security and Directive No. 10/2017, Use of Information Technology.

The first year of the evaluation of non-academic employees and female employees of FI

On 1 August 2024, the first evaluation of non-academic male and female employees at FI started, in the Dean's Office, Building Management, Library and Computer Centre. The aim is to support the development of the employment potential of male and female FI staff and to identify and meet their development needs.

The entire evaluation process is described in detail in the new FI internal regulations: the FI MU Measure 7/2024 Evaluation of FI Non-Academic Employees and the FI MU Secretary Measure 1/2024 Announcement of the Evaluation of FI Non-Academic Employees.

The evaluation process includes not only the actual evaluation of the work performance for the previous year (from August 2023 to July 2024), but also the planning of work goals and development activities of FI non-academic staff and female staff for the following annual period. The Staff Appraisal application in IS is used to record and evaluate the appraisal.

A new e-course "Social Security in Academic Settings" has been launched.

From 1 July 2024, a new e-course "Social Security in the Academic Environment", developed by the MU University-wide Rights Protection Unit, was launched in the MU Information System. Completion of the course is voluntary.

In the course, you will learn what social safety is, how inappropriate behaviour can undermine it, how to notice inappropriate behaviour, how to intervene against it and who to turn to if you need a helping hand. The course follows the mission of Masaryk University, which is, among other things, to contribute to a free, cohesive and safe society. It can only fulfil such a mission through the members of its university community. By their participation in the academic environment, they accept the values of respect, freedom and responsibility, which are also reflected in the MU Code of Ethics.

By completing the course you will become familiar with the conditions Masaryk University has set for maintaining a safe and healthy learning and working environment in which no member of the university community is exposed to inappropriate behaviour.

You can find the training in the relevant section of the Training application in the Information System.

Updates on HRS4R implementation at university and faculty level

An overview of activities undertaken in the first half of 2024:

• 4/2024-9/2024: equal opportunities audit FI
• 2/2024-6/2024: creation and implementation of e-adaptation plans for new employed and contracted FI staff, creation of e-brochure for new FI staff
• 2/2024: approval of the Code of Ethics for Practitioners by the FI Academic Senate, launch of a new FI website on ethics and rights protection
• Ongoing: participation in HR Award working groups, Gender Equality Plan, Adaptation, Recruitment, PhD academia, Training and development coordinators, participation in HR events
• Ongoing: support for the development of female and male FI employees, cooperation with CERPEK
• Ongoing: development of internal and external communication of FI (activities of the External Relations Department and cooperation with partners (among others, information about the achievements of male and female employees on the web, FI newsletters, activities of the HR Department - updating of the career pages including Women in IT; development of the Employee Portal)
• 1/2024: A new MU Code of Ethics was issued as of 1 January 2024

FI equal opportunities audit (gender audit)

In April 2024, we began processing the FI Equal Opportunity Audit or FI Gender Audit, working with the NORA Gender Information Center.

The processing of the audit includes the following sub-activities:

• Content analysis of internal and publicly available FI and MU documents,
• processing and implementation of an online questionnaire survey, analysis of the data obtained,
• preparation and implementation of individual interviews with FI employees,
• Preparation and implementation of focus groups of senior staff, foreign (English-speaking) employees, caregivers, technical and administrative staff,
• preparation of the final report and gender equality plan.

We would like to thank all FI staff/women for their abundant participation in the survey, focus groups and interviews. We managed to complete all these activities by mid-June and are now in the process of processing all the data and drafting the final report.

Code of Ethics for Practitioners at the Faculty of Informatics

On February 16, 2024, the FI Academic Senate approved the Code of Ethics for Practitioners in the Faculty of Informatics.

This code describes the standards of the practitioners' approach to their teaching and to the students, as agreed by the FI MU academic community. It supplements and explains the provisions of the MU Code of Ethics in the context of FI MU practitioners. Its purpose is to contribute to the quality of teaching at FI, the professionalism of practitioners and a fair approach to learners.

The Code sets out values and principles in the areas of:

• 1. Uniformity and fairness.
• 2. Professionalism.
• 3. Relationship with learners.
• 4. Belonging to the faculty and the university.

New MU Code of Ethics

A new MU Code of Ethics has been issued as of 1 January 2024.

The Code of Ethics is a declaration of moral values and general moral principles relevant to the academic environment to which Masaryk University and its university community actively subscribe. The extent to which an individual human act corresponds to these values is not a matter of simple conformity or non-conformity with a particular provision, but of responsible and impartial consideration of all the moral dimensions of a given situation.

MU and its university community - made up of everyone who works or studies at the university - are committed to honouring and respecting the following values:

• 1. Freedom and responsibility.
• 2. Moral and academic integrity.
• 3. Decency and respect.
• 4. the University's role in ethics and culture.