2023 Staff Engagement Survey Timeline
- February 14: Manager team roster HR Umbrella confirmation deadline
- February 28: Manager's Ambassador nominations due
- March 7 & 28: Ambassador Orientations
- April 11 - May 5: Survey open
- Early June: Survey results release
- July: Engagement Town Hall
- June-August: Share Survey results
- August-Oct: Engagement Action Planning
- November-December: Assess Action Plan
Survey Measures
Gallup’s internationally-renowned research has identified 12 specifically-worded measures about engagement that indicate a high-performing work environment, known as the “Q12.”
Additionally, our UCSF staff engagement survey asks data-driven items tailored toward key UCSF priorities, including indices on Accountability, Belonging, Intent to Stay and Recommending UCSF.
We also ask staff to respond to one open-ended question: “What can UCSF do to make this an even better place to work?” Responses to all questions are confidential, combined with comments from at least five respondents by Gallup and reported to UCSF exactly as written.
Survey Audience
Who is invited to the survey?
- All UCSF Campus and Health staff are invited, except some short-term and part-time staff are not invited.
- Benioff Children’s Hospitals (San Francisco & Oakland) and UCSF Benioff Children’s Physicians are invited.
- Newly hired staff who have tenure of less than 3 months at the time of the survey launch are not invited, but will be invited to the following year's survey.
Responses to all questions are confidential
Gallup administers the UCSF Staff Engagement Survey according to strict confidentiality policies. At no time will Gallup share data with UCSF in a way that would directly connect you to your responses. Gallup NEVER shares individual respondent-level data with UCSF, not even with senior leaders or managers -- all results are reported at the team level, aggregated in groups of 5 or more respondents.
Managers cannot see age, gender, ethnicity report details
Variables such as age, gender, and ethnicity are considered private workplace variables, so team managers do not have access to that level of survey report detail. Other categories (such as primary work location) are not private, so managers will be able to look at reports by those details. Again, all results are grouped by 5 or more respondents, so no individual's survey answers can be singled out.
Gallup Access is your staff engagement portal for:
- Accessing Your Team's Survey Results (Managers/Delegates only)
See also: Manager Guide for Q12® and Find your Team’s Belonging Index - Action Planning
- Strengths
- Learning Resources to Increase Engagement, such as...
Carefully read and analyze your team's Gallup Q12 survey results
Q01. I Know What Is Expected of Me at Work (Manager)
Q02. I Have the Materials and Equipment I Need to Do My Work Right (Individual)
Why Drive Employee Engagement in Higher Ed?
Why Friendships Among Remote Workers Are Crucial
Troubleshooting
Submit an Engagement Survey Request
For delegate/manager survey reporting and action planning requests
Call Gallup support desk
(888) 486-9104 (24/7)
For general issues with the Gallup Access portal
2022 Staff Engagement Survey
This July 2022 town hall's key takeaways included:
- Survey results - now available for 2022: UCSF | Managers
- Action Planning - drives engagement
- Strengths Assessments - boosts engagement and belonging
- Organization-wide Action Plan - aims at building roadmaps, managers as advocates & unconscious bias
2021 Staff Engagement Survey
2020 Pulse Survey
Addressing COVID, Racial Injustice, and Financial Health
2020 was a year of extraordinary challenges. This is why Chancellor Sam Hawgood and Mark Laret, President and CEO of UCSF Health, sought to take a staff “pulse” survey to get feedback on how UCSF was addressing the unprecedented converging public health crises of COVID-19, a national reckoning on racism, in addition to the financial fallout of the pandemic.
Read about key findings and follow-up actions of the 2020 Pulse Survey here.