Visualising HR data concerning the performance of university staff - career development assessment and assistance perspective

The employees of universities are, without a doubt, their most valuable resource. They require appropriate care, guidance, support and proper management. All of this is conditioned by the existence of proper information and decision support that is available to the superiors of the staff members and to the management of these tertiary education institutions in general. Recent changes in the tertiary education legislation and in the requirements for the accreditations of study programmes facilitated the development and improvement of quality assurance procedures and systems in universities. Nowadays the information systems of universities store large amounts of data that can be accessed by the management, but might be in a difficult to understand form. This paper aims on the support of development and management of academic staff members at universities through novel visualization of HR data concerning the activities and performance of these staff members. It assumes the existence of a staff evaluation system of the IS HAP type and suggests how career paths of the academics can be tracked in time and how the need for training/development can be identified from the already available data.