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If you want staff to participate in this website and in the cnr awards program, you need to share this website more often. I went to the CNR home page and did a search for Staff Climate Committee, and this website was not found. I had to scrounge through my emails for a dispatch, and dig through that to find the link to this website. If there are that many roadblocks, people will not participate.
How about send out an email once a month when you give out the awards, with a link to the website! SHARE the information. It's no fun if people don't know about it.
Committee Response:
We are trying to get this site linked from the main CNR site. Stay posted.
The last few months there was an announcement. They will come more reliably now.
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"I am relatively new to cnr, but not new to campus. I love working at cnr because I am treated as an adult. It seems like that's not asking for a lot, but many places don't treat people as grown-ups. I also like the can-do atmosphere here. I feel that cnr really does operate as a team, a sentiment that starts at the top. It makes me strive to do the best job that I am able. So far, I have no gripes :)"
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"i would like to request that the staff climate committee consider proposing (to the dean?) that the college "institutionalize" a staff meeting to be organized and held by the dean and the staff committee. i would also suggest that the staff meeting include chairs of depts./div or they at least they should be invited to this meeting by the dean. (may encourage them to participate) i would propose that we have a meeting bi-annually at minimum -- i think quarterly would be the best. the staff committee would be in charge of organizing, creating the agenda and getting the room, etc. thank you for sharing this with the staff committee members."
Committee Response:
This is atopic that comes up often. We will bring this to the Dean and organize a All Staff meeting. Given the time of year, the meeting will happen the the Fall.
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"I wish that we still participated in "Take our children to work day." This was an event that gave me enormous job satisfaction, and doesn't have to cost the University anything. This was about job pride and getting kids interested in science. My children and coworkers children loved "take our children to work day."
Committee response:
4/19/06. The University now participates in Take Your Child To Work Day. This year it is April 27, 2006.
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"What can be done when higher level duties and responsibilities are assigned to staff, but the control unit has no funding to increase salaries?"
Committee response:
In situations like this the Department can do two things: 1) They may "award" the employee non-monetary compensation such as a flex schedule or other incentive; 2) In some cases the Department may request (and receive) a temporary stipend for the individual.
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"First, I am glad that the college is continuing to support inquiry into this arena. I know that alot of work went into the original suvey. However, I think that using that survey as a starting point makes the assumption that responses from less than half of the staff reflect the feelings and experiences of the entire staff. I'm not sure if that kind of data would get published in a scientific journal. I believe that more work needs to be put into getting input from individual staff members, and that input must be guaranteed to be confidential. Also, a basic flaw in the design of the original survey was that the questions used for faculty and staff were different, different enough that crucial information was missing from the staff feedback..."
Committee response:
Only 37% of the staff responded to the questionnaire and, of those, 36% were supervisors. Thus we agree that the survey findings do not represent the majority of CNR staff. One reason for low response rate was due to problems with some staff members not getting the survey in a timely manner. Since the responses for these individuals would have been received later than other CNR staff, these employees were concerned about confidentiality and thus did not respond.
The survey was designed by the Center for Organizational Effectiveness. Although most of the members on last year's Staff Climate Committee (CC) gave feedback about their concerns about the survey (being too touchy-feeling, too lengthy, missing key staff issues, etc.), the Center did not change the survey. They did, however, add some questions and comments after listening to the CC's suggestions.
The Center designed two separate surveys for faculty and staff, and they were not identical, although there were some similar questions.
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"... and the perception on the part of staff I talked to was that faculty were given yet another forum in order to criticize staff. Until this perception is addressed in a meaningful way, I don't think that anything credible can be accomplished.
CC:
As a staff member, what steps can you suggest to remove this perception?
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"Thank you for putting up this site. I am very much looking forward to seeing something new from the Committee. The all-staff meeting was 15 months ago, and it would be nice to see something concrete actually come out of this process. The "Final Summary Report" looks like it is the document we were given at that meeting in April 2004 -- is there anything else? Has anything else happened in the past year that is worth reporting?"
CC:
Unfortunately, no. However, we have a new committee, and a new year. One suggestion is that we have another All Staff Meeting to continue discussion of Staff-related issues. Do you feel that this is worthwhile?
What can you suggest we do?
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