Employee Engagement Survey Returns for Year 2

https://youtu.be/eYPIv4L4H6w

The 2017 UConn Health Employee Engagement Survey is now open and will remain so for the rest of this month for all regular payroll employees.

It’s the second installment in a series of three annual surveys, an effort by Dr. Andy Agwunobi, UConn Health CEO and executive vice president for health affairs, to gauge and ultimately improve employee engagement.

“For an organization to perform well, or to surmount tough challenges, everybody has to be pushing in the same direction,” Agwunobi says in a video message to the UConn Health Community. “It has to be a completed team effort, and everyone has to feel good about that and have pride in their organization.”

Employees should complete the survey online by way of a unique link they were emailed Monday. Responses go to a third-party administrator and are kept nonidentifiable.

In 2016, the first year of the survey, the participation rate was just below 50 percent. The results—including an overall engagement score of 3.67 out of 5—led to a series of leadership development sessions and other steps taken at the management level to attempt to improve employee engagement.

Agwunobi is looking to surpass the 60 percent participation for this year’s survey.

“Your honest responses will go a long way toward helping us effectively measure employee engagement with real data and identify prospective areas of improvement within the workplace culture,” Agwunobi says.

More information about this year’s survey, including a frequently-asked questions page, is available on the Employee Engagement page on UConn Health Express.