YOUR VOICE staff survey

Your Voice still has an impact

Teamwork, job satisfaction, safety, diversity and organisational commitment were among the best things about working at Flinders according to the Your Voice 2006 staff survey circulated online. 

Flinders compared well with results from Your Voice surveys conducted in other Universities and with Your Voice results of 196 organisations with between 1,000 and 10,000 staff.

Discussions of the meaning, implications and likely next steps in the use of the results were held within Cost Centres and at last May’s Vice-Chancellors Committee meeting.

During 2007 a focussed effort was made on enhancing communication across all sections of the University as that was identified as an area needing improvement.

Some examples of that effort include:

• Education, Humanities, Law & Theology – introduced Faculty forums that follow Faculty Board to facilitate networking, improved technology services, restructured Faculty web pages for easier navigation.

• Science & Engineering - increased use of the web through development of various portals (for Course Coordinators and Research Higher Degree students), an online monthly Faculty Newsletter, as part of the Faculty strategic planning process for 2008 a series of discussion forums were held by the Executive Dean with representation from general and academic staff.

• Social Sciences – continued promotion of their online monthly Faculty newsletter.

• Health Sciences – introduced an intra-Faculty grant application process.

• Central Administration – conducted meetings of Cost Centre Consultation Committees focussing on communication and ways to improve it across the University.

The analysis of the survey provided a great deal of useful information about a number of aspects of Flinders University.  We can build on that information through follow-up surveys and hope to improve our response rate each time.

A follow-up staff survey will be offered online in November 2008. Voice Project Pty Ltd, an ongoing research program at Macquarie University, will again be engaged to manage the survey to ensure the confidentiality of staff views is preserved.

Cost Centre actions undertaken as a result of the survey responses

• Social Sciences (Word 46KB)
• Education, Humanities, Law and Theology (Word 45KB)
• Health Sciences (Word 52KB)
• Science and Engineering (Word 54KB)
• Yunggorendi (Word 30KB)
• Central Administration (Word 44KB)
• Library (Word 35KB)
• University-wide (Word 36KB)

Further information

YOUR VOICE survey 2006