Survey conversation starts
Published: 20 June 2014
Several hundred University staff either attended last week's Campus Conversation event or watched online. The staff session included a presentation on the initial results of the 2014 Staff Survey.
The Principal, Senior-vice Principal and other members of the senior management group were quizzed by members of staff last week in the second Camnpus Conversation event held at the University.
More than a hundred staff attended the event in the Sir Charles Wilson building lecture theatre. It's estimated that nearly four hundred people watched part or all of the event on the web stream provided on the Information for Staff site. Issues discussed ranged from the recent staff survey to the redevelopment of Gilmorehill and from working in plan offices to the University's internationalisation plans.
A simple audience vote at the end of the 90 minute session had 60 people approving the Campus Conversation format and just two voting it a "waste of time".
The winner of the Campus Conversation prize draw for an iPad Mini was Professor I Mhairi Macrae from the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology. Our congratulations to Mhairi.
A paper on the staff survey results is due to be considered by the Senior Management Group this week and decisions will be taken on how the detailed survey data is shared with Colleges and the Schools and Research Institutes and with University Services teams. An action plan will be developed for dealing with the issues and concerns raised in this year's survey.
Valued?
The 2014 Staff Survey suggested that an overwhelming number of staff believe the University of Glasgow is a good place to work: 90% of the respondents ‘agreed’ or ‘tended to agree’. The figure is higher than the median of 88% for all HEIs surveyed between 2012 and this year. However more than half of those responding did not feel valued by the University (51%) and 72% suggested they had put in a lot of extra time to meet the demands of their workload over the past 12 months, with 64% often worrying about work outside their working hours.
The survey was conducted over a five week period from 24 March. For the first time it was carried out by an independent research company, Capita Research and Surveys, and supported by the University’s trades unions.
Sixty per cent of the University’s staff (3,434) took part, nearly double the response rate in 2009 and 2012. 91% of respondents reported they felt trusted to do their job; 91% feel safe and secure in their working environment and 90% generally enjoy their work.
First published: 20 June 2014
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