The death of Stefan Grimm was “needless”. And Imperial has done nothing to prevent it happening again

Jump to follow-up The last email of Stefan Grimm, and its follow-up post, has been read over 195,000 times now. After Grimm’s death, Imperial announced that it would investigate itself The report is now available. Performance Management: Review of policies, procedures and support available to staff Following the tragic death of a member of the College’s staff community, Professor Stefan Grimm, the Provost invited the Senior Consul, Professor Richard Thompson, and the Director of Human Resources, Mrs Louise Lindsay, to consider the relevant College policies, procedures and the support available to all staff during performance review. The report is even worse than I expected. It can be paraphrased as saying ‘our bullying was not done sufficiently formally -we need more forms and box-ticking’. At the heart of the problem is Imperial’s Personal Review and Development Plan (PRDP). Here is an extract. "Professor Grimm had been under review in the informal process for nearly two years. His line manager was using this period to help Professor Grimm obtain funding or alternative work (the review panel saw evidence of the efforts made in this regard). The subsequent formal process would have involved a minimum of two formal meetings with time to improve in-between formal meetings before consideration would have been given to the termination of Professor Grimm’s employment. Understandably there is a reluctance to move into formal hearings, p...
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