Guidance For Managers on ​Embedding St Mary's Values

Our values define St Mary’s and underpin all we do as a University. To bring the values to life, we need a strong commitment from all staff. The resources below have been designed to support you to open a discussion with your team about how you will live our values through day to day interactions.

• The Values Session Outline: guides you through a team discussion to select two to three simple team behaviours for each value. These should be directly relevant to the team, aspirational, and focused on how we work around here.
• A poster template: you can email this to learninganddevelopment@stmarys.ac.uk to be professionally printed for you to display in your offices.
• An example of a finished team poster.
• FAQ's (frequently asked questions that will help managers to answer any questions that team members may ask).
• A PowerPoint slide deck for managers: if you would like more information about values.

Why is this important?

Organisational Values have been shown to be important factors in staff satisfaction and customer satisfaction. Poor fit between individual and organisational values is related to lower organisational commitment, lower job satisfaction and higher intention to quit (Lucy Cennamo and Dianne Gardner, 2008) and employee burnout (Siegall and McDonald, 2004). Glassdoor’s Mission and Culture Survey 2019 also found that 73% applicants would not apply to a company unless its values aligned with their personal values.

Maintaining a strong commitment to our values helps St Mary’s to ensure the experience of staff and students is a positive one and one that is consistent with the values we hold.