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Re: Setting up a system when staff are reluctant to change

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Lawrence Serewicz <[log in to unmask]>

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Vicki,
A couple of thoughts. First, are in you in an organisation subject to FOI?  You will want to consider what statutory whips and chains (or sticks choose your metaphor) that you can employ.  Another point to make is the need for efficiency and the ability to receive subject access requests.  If they have poor records management and they cannot respond to a subject access request, the Information Commissioner will be wanting to visit them after 6 April.

To put it differently, ask the senior manager if they have £500,000 available along with the budget to deal with the resultant media storm and the loss of business reputation.

Aside from the statutory instruments, you could look at the recent research by the Department for Transport (DfT) on culture change looking at why people change their behaviour and as well as why they do not change their behaviour.

See this link: http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/social/behaviour-changes/pdf/questions.pdf

The document is part of their wider research project on changing behaviour recently published on their site:
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/scienceresearch/social/behaviour-changes/


They found that people change because of changes in the world around them (statutory changes ICO with teeth), in their understanding of the world (your presentation) or in themselves (enlightment or fear?).  To succeed you need them to see the change in behaviour seem

More advantages

more me (i.e. it is who they are (organised efficient and delivering a top quality service)

More prevalent (hey everybody else is doing it and it is the social norm for our business (social marketing calls this social norming

finally more do able (you need only follow these simple steps and shazaam! you have the change you want.)

the other way to do it (or in conjunction) show them that their current behaviour is less of the four categories.

I hope this is of use.

Good luck.

Best,

Lawrence


Principal Information Management Officer
Durham County Council
County Hall
County Durham
DH1 5UF

0191-383-3815




-----Original Message-----
From: The UK Records Management mailing list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vicki Perry
Sent: 12 February 2010 09:47
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Subject: Setting up a system when staff are reluctant to change

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience in setting up a records
management system in a company where the staff members are very reluctant
to change the way in which they look after their records?

I have a meeting with one of our senior managers on Monday and it is a really
good opportunity to try and get him on board with more support for the
system and therefore obtain the cooperation of other staff members. The main
problem that I have at the moment is in setting up regular transfers of records
from the offices to the records store, once they are no longer required on a
day to day basis. I'm the first person that people contact when they start
running out of space in their office, but this means that the retention of
records is completely inconsistent and the transfers are usually very large and
at very short notice (for example, I got a transfer of 45 boxes a while ago,
because the accounts office were having a new carpet fitted!)

Additionally, we are currently in the middle of trying to provide evidence of
past employees (from the 1980s and earlier) to the IR. Many of these records
have been lost, precisely because of the bad records management practices
that I am trying to change. Yet I've been told that the personnel team have
no intention of transferring the non-current personnel records (at least until
their filing cabinet is full) and I have no idea of what they have and what they
don't.

Has anyone successfully convinced a very reluctant company that although
setting up a good records management system takes a lot of work and change
in practices, it's a worthwhile use of our resources?

Vicki

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