Overall Rating Bronze - expired
Overall Score 31.41
Liaison Hannes Gerhardt
Submission Date April 20, 2015
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University of West Georgia
PA-10: Assessing Employee Satisfaction

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.00 / 1.00 Hannes Gerhardt
Sustainability Director
Department of Geosciences
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Has the institution conducted an employee satisfaction and engagement survey or other evaluation that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

The percentage of employees (staff and faculty) assessed, directly or by representative sample:
100

A brief description of the institution’s methodology for evaluating employee satisfaction and engagement:

A consultant was hired to devise questions. The survey was distributed to all employees via email. Submissions were anonymous.


A brief description of the mechanism(s) by which the institution addresses issues raised by the evaluation (including examples from the previous three years):

The President's office has made engagement a key focus of his tenure. After the Engage West (faculty satisfaction) surveys were administered the President's office has worked address the issues raised in order to achieve a more engaged and committed workforce. These efforts include making a commitment to raising wages to 100% of the median, establishing a diversity/inclusion committee to address issues of race, sexuality, and gender on campus, and the creation of a barriers task force, which has been established to identify and tackle any barriers that the faculty perceive to be in the way of creating the "best place to work and succeed".


The year the employee satisfaction and engagement evaluation was last administered:
2,015

The website URL where information about the institution’s employee satisfaction and engagement assessment is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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