Amelie on operational planning
Head of School Amelie Eriksson Karlström writes about operational planning, budgets and health and safety plans.
The spring semester has now started in earnest with teaching, meetings, and activity planning. In the management group, we have a strong focus on finances and are working on producing updated departmental budgets, in addition to the general budget at school level that was finalised before the end of the year.
We are also in the process of reviewing how we can best budget and monitor the outcome of our programmes. In 2024, KTH has introduced a new resource allocation model for first and second cycle education, where the schools receive an allocation based on their educational mission, followed by a settlement at the end of the year with a requirement for repayment of funds if the school does not fulfil its mission. The new model will place higher demands on planning and follow-up, which means that we need to adapt the school's processes.
Other things that are underway at the school are the work to develop a work environment plan and a JML plan for 2024. Within the work environment work, KTH will continue with the pulse measurements that were launched last year. The employee pulse is a good tool for monitoring the situation at the school's institutions and through it we have identified several areas that we need to work on, such as behaviour and stress. We plan to continue activities on these themes in 2024.