Follow this link to access the findings from the 2011 GSU Staff Survey. For information about the survey process, visit the council's Staff Survey page.
In summer 2011, the university Staff Council and the Office of Institutional Effectiveness will administer a university-wide staff climate survey, with plans to repeat the survey every two years. The council's University Staff Survey ad hoc committee has developed this site to provide additional information about the current implementation and the intended uses of the survey.
The University Staff Survey is designed to provide a range of benefits to the institution and its employees, including the following:
The university Office of Institutional Research (OIR) will administer the survey, which will be distributed to all classified employees. As with other confidential university surveys conducted by OIR, staff members will use a unique code that cannot be tied to their identity to complete the survey. In the reporting of results, optional demographic information will only disseminated as aggregated data for university-wide reporting purposes. Any use of the data outside the Staff Council's biennial reporting process must be approved by the council Board of Officers and OIR.
The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) plans to set up proctored survey sessions for areas where staff do not have regular access to computers or may need other forms of assistance. Please contact the Office of Institutional Research if you wish to pursue this option for staff in your area.
Click here to access a copy of the survey questions. The survey consists of 18 questions incorporating both structured and open-ended formats, in addition to an optional demographic section. The first nine use a six-point semantic differential scale ("Strongly disagree" to "Strongly agree"). Four of the remaining questions are formatted to solicit further information following "Yes" or "No" responses. The survey concludes with a text box for general comments. Survey questions were developed by the ad hoc committee with the guidance of Institutional Effectiveness administrators. The validity and appropriateness of preliminary questions were tested during pilot implementations in fall 2009 and spring 2010.
The survey instrument was developed to achieve a dual purpose: to be administered to all university staff every two years and to serve as the staff climate tool for large units participating periodically in the Administrative and Support Unit Review (ASUR) process. Many of the survey questions evolved from the previous ASUR climate survey or were developed to be applicable for both purposes. To facilitate this dual use, staff member's responses will be tagged with their general administrative unit. Click here to access a listing of administrative units used for ASUR. Unit-specific ASUR data will not be segregated by demographic categories in the survey results, and OIR reserves the right to limit the use of optional demographic data in any instance that might compromise confidentiality.
OIR will provide the initial analysis of the quantitative and qualitative responses to the survey, and the survey ad hoc committee will further summarize the survey results, giving proper weight to the whole range of responses. The committee will provide a report of their findings to the council's Board of Officers, who will make the report available to the full council, including all non-voting members (i.e., the university president, provost, assistant vice president of Human Resources, etc.) and the full university Administrative Council.
If you have additional questions about the survey, you may contact the Staff Council, the Office of Institutional Research, or any of the members of the council Staff Survey ad hoc committee.
A poster with survey information is available here.
The Staff Council established the Staff Survey ad hoc committee to follow up on one of the recommendations in the report of the Senate Executive Committee's Staff Retention Task Force, which implemented a climate survey in June 2008 as part of its information-gathering process. The task force recommended conducting a standard staff survey on a regular basis.
Follow this link to access the findings from the 2011 GSU Staff Survey. For information about the survey process, visit the council's Staff Survey page.