Percentage of employees who report that those in their work group generally behave ethically in the workplace
Status
As a part of the department and organizational ethics dimension of the annual Listening to the Workforce survey, this item asks employees to assess their co-workers experiences and their ethical behavior. *No Survey was issued in 2020 as the City collected benchmarking information and best practices in order to overhaul the Listening to the Workforce survey.
Trending
This measure has been stable over some time always hovering around 70% indicating a high level of belief in employees' having ethical co-workers. In 2021, the item reached new levels of agreement with 81% of employees reporting they believe their co-workers behave ethically and decreased moderately in 2022.
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Additional Measure Insights
The annual Listening to the Workforce survey results are delivered back to City Management and then Department Directors and Human Resources Managers. An effort has been made in the recent past to work with Departments in ways to use results and communicate back implementations and changes to further drive the efficacy of the survey tool. If results are in need of improvement, the Human Resources Department is available to provide subject matter experts to improve needed areas.
Measure Details and Definition
1) Definition: This measure represents the percentage of employees who agree that the employees in their workgroup behave ethically.
2) Calculation method: This percentage is calculated by adding up the number of participants who selected agree and strongly agree to this survey item and divided by those who provided a response to the item.
3) Data Collection Process: The data for the Listening to the Workforce is collected annually by providing both online and paper surveys to all regular City employees. The survey runs for about 3-4 weeks during the middle of the year.
4) Measure Target Calculation: The target was calculated by averaging the past five years of data.
5) Frequency Measure is Reported: Annually (Calendar Year) in December.
Date page was last updated: March 2023