Organizational Health Survey Overview
Below are some essential details as to what the survey means for employees and how you can contribute to our organization by taking the survey.
· The DGS Organizational Health Survey will kick off April 11 and remain open for approximately three weeks. It gives all of us the opportunity to identify our strengths and weaknesses as an institution, and to help build a better workplace.
· What does Organizational Health mean? Organizational Health refers to our ability as a department to function effectively, to perform at a high level, to change appropriately, and to grow from within. It goes beyond job satisfaction and how happy employees are. It reflects how invested and connected employees feel in the success of their teams and the organization. More than anything it convey how well we can deliver services to our customers, and by extension, all Californians.
· I know we ask you to take a lot of surveys. I really encourage you to complete this one, because participating is one of the most important ways we have to examine and improve our own work lives and DGS overall. In appreciation of your time, DGS staff who complete the survey will be randomly chosen to receive prizes such as the use of Director Kim’s prime parking spot for a week, donuts delivered to their unit by Chief Deputy McGuire and gift cards for Starbucks, Target or Amazon.
· Beginning April 11, each employee with a DGS-issued email address will receive an email with an individualized web link to take the survey. You can take the survey at home or work, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
· It only takes 10 minutes to complete and has 35 questions.
· Your access link will be a randomly generated URL so that is unique to you. During the survey period, if you have questions or lose your unique URL, contact Michael Sears at
· You can trust that the Office of Strategic Planning Policy and Research will conduct the survey and communicate the results with complete confidentiality.
· Individual managers won’t have access to any individual responses and no DGS employee, manager or senior leader will either. So please be honest. We’ll get an accurate picture of how we’re doing and what we can do better.
· Following the survey, we will all work to develop plans for positive change based on the results and to put those plans into action.
· You also may visit the Organizational Health website at: http://inside.dgs.ca.gov/dgsnet/Home/OrganizationalHealthSurvey.aspx
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