Potpurri
This is the number of questions that make up the Employee Engagement Index.
What is six?
Here's the six:
1. I would recommend the State of Michigan to friends and family as a great place to work.
2. I intend to stay with the State of Michigan for at least another 12 months.
3. My colleagues go beyond what is expected for the success of the State of Michigan.
4. I am proud to work for the State of Michigan.
5. My colleagues are passionate about providing exceptional customer service.
6. I understand how my job contributes to the mission of the State of Michigan.
Each department is required to have one that is updated in START at least quarterly.
What are Agency-wide Action Plans?
This is the minimum # of responses required before any results can be generated for any demographic category within any given business unit.
What are 10 responses?
These are the dates the 2018 Employee Survey will be open.
What is September 10 – October 1, 2018?
Starting at midnight on September 10th, email invitations will be sent in batches of 1,500 every 15 minutes until all invitations are distributed. The survey was distributed to 45,504 employees in 2017.
This year's survey will close at 11:59 pm on October 1, 2018.
This is the statewide response rate goal.
What is 78%?
The SoM response rate in 2017 was 76%.
In 2012 - 58%
In 2013 - 68%
In 2015 - 71%
A set of steps necessary to address workplace issues identified in the employee survey.
What is an employee engagement action plan?
Higher levels of engagement and high likelihood of staying employed at the state of Michigan for at least the next 12 months is a characteristic of this group.
Who are Champions?
This is the number of questions on the 2017 survey.
What is 57?
In addition to the 57 there is one barrier to productivity question where employees were asked to select up to five issues that commonly prevent them from being fully productive at work.
This is the reason why I keep receiving emails from PwC reminding me to take the survey even though I have already completed it.
What is to help ensure anonymity?
PwC does not track whether employees take the survey. Consequently, all employees, regardless of whether or not they have already completed the survey, will continue to receive email reminders from PwC until the survey is closed.
Name 3 initiatives the state of Michigan has launched at the enterprise level to address feedback on the survey.
What are:
Leadership Development Program
Recognition Coin Program
Partnerships with Universities- Career Development
tR – Quarterly Talking Reinvention Events
Good Government Newsletter
Action Plans and Process
Reinventing Performance in Michigan and Lean Process Improvement
Office of Good Government
Employees who have a lower level of engagement and a high likelihood of staying is a characteristic of this group.
Who are Captives?
This is the cutoff # of days for newly hired employees to be eligible to take the survey.
What is 45 days?
In the survey, this represents your department director and his/her team of executives. Typically, this group includes those individuals who report directly to the department director.
Who is department leadership?
There are 13 department leadership and communication themed questions on the survey. Department leadership is defined at the top of questionnaire page relating to these questions in order to help respondents better answer those questions.
This is the primary reason why demographic information is included on the survey.
What is to enable agencies to make targeted improvements where they may be needed the most?
Over the past six years this group has helped to coordinate employee survey activities and been an integral part in improving employee engagement across Michigan State government.
Who are the Department Survey Champions?
This is the number of categories of open ended comments provided on the survey.
What are 7 categories with 400 characters each?
Career Opportunities & Training
Communications
Diversity & Inclusion
Leadership
Recognition/Compensation
Tools/Resources
Other/General
This benchmark represents leading organizations in their respective industries (manufacturing, services, healthcare/hospital, retail, telecommunications, and utilities) that have shown sustained financial success/growth.
What is the High Performing Benchmark?
The SoM's 54 percent champions score exceeded the high performing benchmark for the first time in 2017.
Identifies items and themes that drive engagement, enabling more focused action planning.
What is the Driver Matrix?
The Driver Matrix categorizes each item based on its correlation with the engagement index as well as its need for improvement, as measured by the Agree Score.
Research says this is the single best way to increase response rates from one year to the next on an employee engagement survey.
What is making the connection between feedback provided in the last survey and effective actions taken in your agency to address that feedback?
These are a group of people who may have worked in some capacity for the State of Michigan for a long time but are not eligible to take the survey?
Who are Contractors?
Contractors are not eligible to complete the survey. The State of Michigan values feedback from its contractors; however the survey is only intended for employee participation at this time.