The Houston Business Journal’s

Best Place to Work list

The Houston Business Journal’s Best Places to Work Survey

• Survey is administered by Quantum Market Research

• There are approximately 37 questions

• Survey is available from April 3, 2008 – April 30, 2008

• Available to all Rice employees

• Your individual responses are confidential

Why is it important to participate in this survey?

• Helps identify our strengths and weaknesses

• Great recruiting tool• Provides more visibility

for Rice as a great place to learn and a great place to work

How did we do the past 2 years?

2006 2007644 employees

responded528 employees

responded

Placed 11th out of the 12 companies that made the Best Place to Work List.

Placed 10th out of the 11 companies that made the Best Place to Work List.

Overall score was 83.12 Overall score was 84.32

Our goal is to increase the number of employees who respond to the survey and to increase our overall score.

Categories included on the Houston Business Journal survey

Team

Effectiveness

Retention

RiskAlignment with Goals

Trust with Coworkers

Individual Contribution

Manager

Effectiveness

Trust in Senior

Leaders

Feeling Valued

Satisfaction with Current

Role

People Practices

(Benefits)

Where does Rice shine?

Team

Effectiveness

Retention

RiskAlignment with Goals

Trust with Coworkers

Individual Contribution

Manager

Effectiveness

Trust in Senior

Leaders

Feeling Valued

Satisfaction with

Current Role

People Practices

(Benefits)

Where does Rice shine?

• I am always thinking about ways to do my job better. (Individual Contribution)

• I understand how my job helps the organization achieve success.(Alignment with Goals)

• I feel loyal to my immediate team or work group. (Trust with Coworkers)

Where do we have room for improvement?

Team

Effectiveness

Retention

RiskAlignment with Goals

Trust with Coworkers

Individual Contribution

Manager

Effectiveness

Trust in Senior

Leaders

Feeling Valued

Satisfaction with

Current Role

People Practices

(Benefits)

Where do we have room for improvement?

• Considering the value I bring to the organization, I feel I am paid fairly.(Feeling Valued)

• I see professional growth and career development opportunities for myself in this organization. (Retention Risk)

• My immediate supervisor regularly gives me constructive feedback on my job performance. (Manager Effectiveness)

How do we use the survey results?

• Serves as a data point to see if we’re headed in the right direction

• Mechanism to raise awareness to campus leadership of programs and initiatives that are of interest to employees

• Source of employee feedback on what works and what needs improvement

Survey impact has been felt in the following areas:

• Opportunities for development• Campus environment• Town Hall Meetings• Employee recognition & performance

feedback• Whitaker Scholars program• Rice Leaders• Child Care Center

How do I complete the survey?Participate in the survey from any computer with internet access.

Look for the survey link & access code in the following places:

Rice News

Rice Homepage

Staff Homepage

Faculty Homepage

RiceFest

Traveling Road Show

AllDEPTS emails

Staff postcardAny questions? Please contact Amanda Hickman at X4791 or at

ahickman@rice.edu

Come visit us at one of the following locations during our Traveling Road Show for a chance to win an iPod shuffle when

you complete the survey!

• FE&P, April 7th 11:00-1:00 & 3:00-4:00• Fondren Library–Room 404, April 8th 11:00-1:00• Brown college commons, April 9th 1:30-2:30• Student Center, April 10th 11:00-1:00• Faculty Club, April 11th 11:00-1:00• RiceFest, April 17th 11:00-3:00• Brochstein Pavilion, April 25th 2:00-5:00• Wiess college commons, April 29th 1:30-2:30

* If you can’t make one of these events, but wish to participate in the raffle, please follow these simple instructions: participate in the survey from any computer with internet capability, print the confirmation page of your survey, write your name and extension on it and mail to Amanda Hickman, MS-92.

Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility

• Employer Application Due April 14th • If Rice is chosen as a finalist:

– Top 20% of employer’s based on data collected by the Families and Work Institute

– Survey of 250 employees – Random Sample

– Online Survey with option of paper surveys for some employee’s