Colorado State University
PA-13: Assessing Employee Satisfaction

The Employee Climate Survey is an opportunity for all faculty and staff to answer a wide variety of questions and leave feedback about their experiences at CSU. The survey is "designed to assess the current state of our university work environment". The survey is administered to all CSU employees every two to three years with employee councils and the President encouraging all staff to participate.

In addition to the Campus Climate Survey, the Division of Student Affairs (the largest division on campus) conducts a Work Life Balance survey on the off years.

The results of the Employee Climate Survey are considered by campus leadership and facilitated by the CSU President and Vice President of Inclusive Excellence. Sessions are scheduled on campus to share the results and results are also posted on the VP for Inclusive Excellence website to promote transparency. An overall institutional report is publicly available along with reports for each division or college (over 23 individualized reports). Each division or college (and in some cases if large enough, departments) is also given the option of requesting a tailored presentation with time to discuss the results. All presentations and reports are posted online along with findings from the open forum, focus groups, and open-end analysis. Further, Institutional Research takes ad hoc requests on the findings and provides departments, colleges, and units the option of diving deeper into the results on any particular topic or cross tab that would benefit their area.

Campus Action from Results:
• Implemented mandatory campus-wide supervisory training
• Informed changes to the search committee process
• Creation of a Campus Climate committee taskforce who utilizes the survey results in its work moving forward
• Opportunity for unit level counsel by the Office of Inclusive Excellence
• Collaboration with other universities who utilized our survey for potential benchmarking data
• Increase in diversity and inclusion trainings offered across campus in response to items from the employee climate survey
• Informed goal setting/assessment for division level diversity strategic plans
• Increased communication from leadership at the division level
• Informed direction of diversity taskforces at the department/division/college level
• Campus recommendations for accountability measures, applying policies, communication, service recognition
• Survey results inform items the President’s Commission on Diversity and Inclusion focus on

The Employee Campus Climate Survey is cited in both this credit and PA5: Assessing Diversity and Equity because this comprehensive assessment includes both topics as our campus recognizes the intersectionalities. The survey is administered to all employees every other year.