Staff Barometer
The Staff Barometer pilot study: understanding career motivations in higher education
i-graduate has teamed up with The Leadership Foundation (http://www.lfhe.ac.uk) to conduct a new study examining career motivation and progression in higher education. The study will involve a small group of participating institutions working with i-graduate and the Leadership Foundation to pilot the new Staff Barometer – a survey instrument to investigate and analyse career motivation, attracting and retaining staff and changing perceptions about careers in higher education. UK universities are invited to join the study in this pilot stage.
Participating institutions will be invited to comment on the content of the Staff Barometer survey, before asking their own staff (both administrative and academic, and typically to include Senior Lecturers and Service Managers right through to PVCs and Directors of Services) to complete the survey online. To enrich and gain a better understanding of the questionnaire answers, follow on telephone interviews and focus groups will then be carried out with a sample of participating institutions. Each institution will receive a confidential PowerPoint reference file analysing the survey responses from their own staff as well as benchmarking data. Representatives from all participating institutions will also be invited to a closed event at which the anonymised results from the group overall will be shared and debated.
Aggregated and anonymised results from the study will be shared with the sector through a written report (including benchmarking data), published by the Leadership Foundation, and through a launch event in Spring 2009. We hope the report, and the broader study, will facilitate and encourage good practice among HEIs, including the enhancement of institutional staff development and recruitment policies. If successful, we will repeat the Staff Barometer on a larger scale, involving both UK and international HEIs, and will aim to capture data on a regular basis to allow comparisons over time in this important area.
To register your interest, pleast contact Neeta Barot (neeta.barot@i-graduate.org) by Friday 19th September.