- ‘Yes’ to ITE Care: ITE staff participated actively at the ITE Care, We Care seminars held to promote the values the organisation deems as desirable.
- Voice your Choice: ITE staff had their say as to
which ITE Care values were more important.
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ITE CARE, WE CARE
Staff remained upbeat about ITE, going by the findings of an Organisation Climate Survey (OCS) carried out to gauge the organisation climate in ITE. The Survey yielded an overall staff satisfaction score of 4.85. The score, although the same as that of the OCS carried out in 2003, was a significant improvement from the score of 2000, namely, 3.96.
Conducted from 13 November to 8 December 2006, the OCS findings echoed a strong alignment between ITE’s management and employees towards the realisation of the organisation’s vision and goals. The findings reinforced staff commitment to the Mission, Vision, ITE Care Values and ITE Advantage plan, given that the “organisational vision and goals” dimension yielded one of the lowest mean gap score of 0.18, which was the difference between desirable outcome and actuality.
Indeed, the promotion of the ITE Care Values through a series of ITE Care, We Care seminars held during the year of review had borne fruit. The six one-day sessions held from November 2006 to January 2007 reminded staff of the one ITE Heartbeat pulsating to the desirable traits of the organisation.
As at 31 March 2007, there were 2,165 staff in service, with 1,433 academic and 732 non-academic staff. The staffing ratio has risen to 1:17 from the norm of 1:14, given the rising trend in ITE’s student enrolment, with FY 2006’s enrolment peaked at 24,607. ITE is currently engaging teaching staff on various initiatives, and recruiting additional teaching staff, to effectively support the increase in student enrolment.
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- Care Motivates: ITE students thrive in a caring environment.
CARE FOR STUDENTS
ITE reviewed its Student Counselling Framework in FY 2006 to entrench the ITE Care Values within the ITE Colleges so teaching staff could have better support in student care. This entailed boosting developmental and preventive counselling services to accommodate changing social trends and new needs of the ITE Colleges. It also involved increasing the number of counsellors under a decentralised structure to promote relationship-building among the teaching staff, counsellors and students. The enhanced Counselling Framework would be implemented in phases within one year for completion by the end of 2008.
