University of Calgary
EN-8: Employee Orientation

All new employees are required to attend a new employee orientation session delivered through Human Resources. The presentation delivered during the session has as section fully devoted to sustainability and includes the following information: - Overview of institutional sustainability commitments and our STARS rating, including several key metrics; - Overview of Institutional Sustainability Strategy and its three interdependent frameworks; - Overview of "what is sustainability"; - Health and Wellness benefits, resources and programming; and - Overview of the diverse pathways for staff to get involved in sustainability on campus (i.e. becoming a Sustainability Coordinator). All employees are also encouraged to take the "Respect in the Workplace" workshop as part of their onboarding. The learning goals of the workshop are: - To better understand our colleagues and what respect and disrespect means to them; - To see how we can take personal responsibility for enhancing respect in our culture; - To identify specific strategies that we can utilize to make our culture more respectful; and - To chart a course and make commitments to a culture of respect.