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UC San Diego staff members have an opportunity to make their opinions heard on topics ranging from overall employee satisfaction to supportiveness of supervisors through the annual campus Staff@Work Survey. As part of the 2015 survey, respondents were also able to share their thoughts about the campus climate at UC San Diego via a new section created in partnership with the Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion.
“UC San Diego’s Staff@Work Survey was the first in the UC System to annually ask staff, both represented and not-represented, about their perceptions of their workplace,” said Angela Song, who, as director of organizational performance assessments, leads the campus’ survey program. “This is a hallmark year for the Staff@Work Survey as additional questions were created with the vital input from the five campus resource centers to provide meaningful data on perceptions, behaviors and experiences of staff.”
The Staff@Work Survey received a 56 percent staff response rate this year. With regard to overall satisfaction, 80 percent of respondents said they are a “satisfied” or “extremely satisfied” UC San Diego employee. The survey received a Collaborative Innovation Award from the California Public Higher Education Collaborative Business Conference in 2015.
Staff members also responded to questions specifically related to the campus climate, which is defined by the University of California as “the current attitudes, behaviors and standards of faculty, staff, administrators and students concerning the level of respect for individual needs, abilities and potential.”
“These questions for the 2015 Staff@Work Survey will help understand and track staff perceptions of climate at UC San Diego,” said Becky Petitt, Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. “The responses will help enable campus leaders and department heads to understand the baseline for their respective units, implement department-specific interventions, and monitor progress.”
According to results from the questions relating to campus climate, 79 percent of those who responded agreed or strongly agreed that they were comfortable with the climate at UC San Diego.
As part of the survey, staff members were invited to make comments relating to their views of diversity on campus. “We have definitely made progress in terms our efforts in regards to equity, diversity, and inclusion,” wrote one respondent, while another commented that there is still “much work to do.”
Read the full Staff@Work Survey results here.
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