Yale Bulletin and Calendar

March 18, 2005|Volume 33, Number 22

Campus-wide survey begins on March 21

The Yale Workplace Survey will be conducted March 21-April 8 University-wide for all non-faculty staff who did not participate in the October 2004 initial survey.

The survey gives departments a way to learn what staff consider to be important workplace issues, and to use that information to create action plans to make improvements and increase workplace communication and teamwork. During March, Laura Freebairn-Smith, director of the Organizational Development and Learning Center, will provide participating departments with instructions for taking the survey.

The survey will be available online at www.yale.edu/conversations and is anonymous; participants will not be asked for their Net I.D.'s or names at any point. Paper surveys will also be available through the Learning Center. The data will be collected and analyzed by Towers-Perrin, a management consulting firm, which will provide finished reports to the University.

The survey is a two-step process: Once the reports are in, each department will have the opportunity to take its results and develop action plans, with assistance provided by the Organizational Development & Learning Center, if desired.

The departments that already took the survey in October 2004 are the Office of Finance & Administration, Yale University Libraries, the Office of Development, the School of Drama and Yale Medical School ITS. Results from that pilot survey are available at www.yale.edu/conversations.

Survey sponsors are John Pepper, vice president of finance and administration, and Rob Schwartz, associate vice president and chief human resources officer. Freebairn-Smith is the project leader and is working with an advisory group of staff and union representatives.

More information is available at www.yale.edu/conversations or by calling the Learning Center at (203) 432-5660.

T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Financial burden for lower-income families eliminated

Professor created 'Science Saturdays' series to fuel flame . . .

Holloway named next master of Calhoun College

Campus-wide survey begins on March 21

David Leffell is appointed deputy dean for clinical affairs

Music school dean will leave to assume SMU post

Bloom to be honored with Hans Christian Andersen Award

Experiment demonstrates that monkeys have the ability to reason . . .

Researchers identify gene for age-related macular degeneration

Online auction will benefit Dwight Hall

Passion and ambition take center stage in 'Miss Julie'

School of Drama will present Ibsen's tragedy 'Hedda Gabler'

Internationally renowned architect Frank Gehry will visit the campus . . .

'The Physical Print' traces evolution of photographic process

Noted child psychiatrist will deliver inaugural Albert J. Solnit Lecture

Celebrated poet and renowned novelist are next Schlesinger Visiting Writers

In Memoriam: Jacques Guicharnaud, French theater scholar . . .

Nelson to head playwriting department

Yale editor Nayan Chanda earns Shorenstein Award for Journalism

Kiger will join artistic staff at Yale Rep

Library conference will explore preservation of global collections

Dr. James Comer to discuss future of public education

Bookbags and 'Schooliosis'