Confidentiality
It’s similar to voting!
Responses to the Working at Iowa survey are confidential. It is similar to voting in that you have to show your ID to prove you’re eligible (you sign in with your hawk id), but no-one knows how you actually vote.
When you submit your completed survey, it is forwarded electronically to the University’s Evaluation and Examination Service. This office strips away all personal identifying information.
When access to the survey closes, Evaluation and Examination Service will forward the response data to a University faculty member who will then conduct the statistical analysis of the data. No personal identifying data is shared with this faculty member.
After the analysis is complete, a summary report will be provided to University leadership.
No report is generated on any group of respondents smaller than 15 (details below).
What gets reported to Whom? Reporting Working at IOWA results
The survey results are complied in a University-wide report, and typically a report for each Division/College and the larger departments. Reports for smaller units may be requested through their Vice President/Dean and Senior Human Resource representative; however, for any unit to receive survey data results, 15 respondents from that unit must complete and submit the survey. When there are not enough responses to have a unit report, the response data will only be reflected into the appropriate Division/College and/ or University reports with 15 or more respondents in order to protect confidentiality.
The University-wide summary report will be provided to the President, Vice-Presidents and Deans, and will be available to the University community on the Working at Iowa web site. The Vice-President or Dean of each Division/College will receive the reports for that Division/College. This will be the subject of a follow up discussion with Associate Provost Susan Johnson and Associate Vice President Susan Buckley. The Vice-President or Dean of the Division/College determines the most effective method to disseminate the information to the employees within their organization, and is responsible for the development of plans to address areas needing improvement.
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