Dear Colleagues,
Next Monday, Oct. 29, ANR employees will begin receiving emails inviting you to participate in ANR’s work environment assessment project. We want to know about your experiences working for ANR, and what we can do to make them better. Your input is vital to making UC and ANR a better place to work.
ANR is participating with the rest of the UC system in conducting this survey to gather a wide variety of data related to work environments and work-life issues as part of our commitment to creating and supporting inclusive and welcoming environments on our campuses and across all of our statewide locations.
Participation is voluntary, but we want everyone to have the opportunity to be heard.
The data will be used to learn how ANR employees – including county-paid employees – feel about their work environment and how leadership can help to make sure it is welcoming, inclusive, safe and comfortable. The more data we have, the better we will be able to take appropriate actions to improve our workplace environment.
The results will guide an action plan specifically designed to improve work environment issues currently facing ANR employees. ANR’s action plan will be in place by December 2013; preliminary survey results may be available as soon as at the ANR statewide conference next April.
The email you receive will explain the survey and will contain a unique link you can use to log into the confidential survey. You may complete the survey during work hours. Many units will be holding “survey days” during which all staff will break to take the survey.
ANR employees with ucanr.edu email addresses and county-paid Cooperative Extension employees will receive their survey e-mail on Oct. 29. ANR’s survey will remain open through Nov. 16.
ANR employees who have UCOP email addresses will receive their survey email on Nov. 2, and campus-based academics and staff will receive their invitation to the survey from their campus at a later date. Updated information will be posted on the websites listed below.
Hard copies for those without computer access and a Spanish-language version of the survey are available from managers.
For more information about the study, please visit the UC ANR Work Environment Assessment website at http://ucanr.edu/sites/wesurvey and the UCOP Campus Climate Study website at http://campusclimate.ucop.edu.
Barbara Allen Diaz
Vice President
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