2010 Voice Staff Satisfaction Survey
2010 Voice results presentation
Two open forums for all staff were held on 27 & 29 September, opened and chaired by the Vice-Chancellor
Slide show for Voice results presentation
How to interpret the Voice results slides
A vodcast of the open forum on 27th September will shortly be available here.
Where To From Here?
From October, individual schools and directorates will be visited by ODU staff to present their area’s survey results and enable discussion and planning around addressing priorities. Each area will be encouraged to choose three priorities that they can work to address themselves over the next two years prior to the next Voice Survey iteration.
About the 2010 Voice Staff Satisfaction Survey
The Voice Staff Satisfaction survey was conducted for the second time at UNE, and was held from Monday 17 May to Friday 4 June 2010. The survey, which was first conducted at UNE in 2007, was developed and delivered by Voice Project Pty Ltd of Macquarie University and collected anonymous data from staff participants about UNE direction, leadership and work environment.
Professor Jim Barber, UNE Vice-Chancellor welcomed the survey, viewing it as an excellent opportunity to further understand staff perception and the UNE environment.
55% of all UNE employees responded to the 2010 survey. The survey responses have been used to identify organisational strengths, as well as areas of concern to which attention and resources need to be focused. It has also allowed the benchmarking of UNE against 28 other participating Australian Universities, as well as approximately 1900 other organisations from various work sectors in and outside of Australia. This time around, in addition to comparing the survey outcomes to these organisations, the results have been compared against the 2007 UNE benchmarks which allows UNE to measure the progress we have made over the last two to three years.
The presentations of the 2010 UNE Staff Satisfaction Survey Results will allow staff to understand the high-level results and engage with the UNE leadership team to discuss possible strategies and solutions to address our action priorities.
2010 Survey Outcomes - Snapshot
From the survey results, our top three performing management practices, and the percentage of employees who rated them favourably, were:
- Sexual harassment is discouraged (90%)
- I have good working relationships with my co-workers (87%)
- I understand how my job contributes to the overall success of UNE (86% - up 6% on the 2007 result)
Our bottom three performing management practices, and the percentage of employees who rated them favourably, were:
- Change is handled well at UNE (13%)
- There is good communication across all sections of UNE (14%)
- UNE is good at learning from its mistakes and successes (16%)
The top three changes from 2007 at UNE are:
- The future for UNE is positive (44% of respondents answered favourably, up from 26% in 2007)
- The way my performance is evaluated gives me clear guidance for improvement (48% of respondents answered favourably, up from 30% in 2007)
- Overall, UNE is successful (50% of respondents answered favourably, up from 35% in 2007)
For information relating to the 2010 UNE Voice staff survey, please contact Mark Kneen or Gillian De La Motte at the Organisational Development Unit.