Employee Engagement Survey
The results are out for the employee engagement survey and I’m happy to find that we’re all more engaged … or at least the 29 of us that responded to the survey are.
Please see the results below:
As a metric we went up in all but three areas. Those that I’m happiest with are that recognition and development improved dramatically. You deserve the recognition you get for the work that you do.
If I haven’t before, I want to reiterate that you all do excellent work; the insurance group recovers hundreds of thousands of dollars for the University; Biosafety supports $185 million in research; Occupational Safety drastically reduced FMD injury rates; Radiation Safety manages one of the few broad scope licenses in the nation; Fire Safety partnered with the Richmond Fire Department to reduce fire incidents through education; Laboratory Safety has reduced major laboratory violations through inspection and education; in one year Valerie at Industrial Hygiene has managed to dramatically reduce faculty, staff and student exposures to hazardous chemicals; and despite my best efforts, the Business Support group has managed to keep our budget in the black.
I hope that we can continue to work together to improve how we all feel about our jobs here at VCU. For instance, collectively we’re unsure what’s expected, we don’t have the materials and equipment that we need, and we don’t have the opportunity to do our best work. I’m not sure what we can do to correct this perception, but if I can do something, please let me know.