.UKZN Employee Engagement Survey a Success
The University of KwaZulu-Natal recently held its Employee Engagement Survey in a bid to get the views of its employees on the working climate at the University.
The project, which was speared headed by the University’s Human Resources Development ambit, was underpinned by the fact that employees are the most valuable ingredient in enabling an organisation to achieve its vision and goals and therefore, the right climate and environment is critical in ensuring that they are inspired, motivated, developed and perceive their contribution as having meaning to them and to the overall success of the institution.
The survey, which took place from Monday, 16 July to Friday, 27 July 2018, was carried out online and manually for those members of staff who do not have computer access.
Mr Michael Cloete, Human Resources Development Manager, said overall, the implementation and coordination of the project went well and an acceptable number of responses was received. ‘The biggest challenge was the number of e-mails that were sent to the same employee asking them to complete the survey. This was resolved in time for employees to complete the survey successfully.
The results will now be consolidated and compiled into a report which will be reviewed by Human Resources as well as management. The results will then be shared with all employees through general university communications as well as line managers. ‘Once the results have been communicated, employees will be given an opportunity to contribute towards actions we should take to improve those areas that need to be improved. Thereafter, the plans will be approved, implemented and progress will be tracked. Once we have the results, it will be important for each one of us to firstly provide suggestions of what we can do to improve employee engagement; and help the University to implement them in order to create an inclusive and conducive working environment within UKZN. Once again, thank you to everyone who took the time complete the employee engagement survey for 2018,’ said Cloete.
Words: Sinegugu Ndlovu