As fifth workplace survey launches, Yale staff members are poised to share their views
From Oct. 1 through midnight, Oct. 21, staff members will once again have the chance to let their voices be heard by providing valuable feedback on the work culture at Yale via the 2014 Workplace Survey.
In an e-mail sent Oct. 1, President Peter Salovey encouraged all Yale staff members to take the survey. “Yale’s Workplace Survey provides the university with important information about employee satisfaction, work unit and supervisor effectiveness, workplace communications, and organizational culture. The responses will be used to develop action plans for improvements in departments as well as across the university.”
Salovey went on to say, “All of the university’s leadership join me in thanking you for sharing your views on workplace issues that are important to you.”
The 2014 Workplace Survey is now live and can be completed online anytime before midnight on Oct. 21.
First offered in 2004-2005, the survey continues to provide information on important issues in the workforce and helps identify areas most in need of improvement for the university and individual departments. Staff feedback on the 2014 survey will help President Salovey and the university officers better understand how Yale is doing and what the university needs to focus on for 2014 and beyond.
In 2012, 80% of non-faculty staff members completed the survey and provided detailed feedback about the work culture at Yale. “While the last survey had a great participation rate, this year we are expecting both a higher participation rate and an increase in the number of departmental action plans,” says Chief Diversity Officer Deborah Stanley-McAulay, who leads the effort on coordinating the survey.
“To ensure that everyone is able to participate in the survey,” Stanley-McAulay adds, “it is administered in both paper and electronic formats. The online survey will accommodate staff members who use PCs, Macs, iPads, and other personal electronic devices. Special facilitated sessions are set up to gain input from staff members who do not have easy access to a computer.”
The survey is brief (7-10 minutes) and is strictly anonymous (staff members are never asked for a NetID or name, and answers cannot be traced). The data is being collected and analyzed by the outside consulting firm Sirota Survey Intelligence, which will provide finished reports and on-line tools to the university. To help create measurable benchmarks for the university to assess over time, the questions being asked this year are similar to those in the survey conducted in 2012, including such critical dimensions of the work environment as commitment, diversity, leadership, productivity, innovation, and development.
For additional information, visit the Workplace Survey website.
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