Employee engagement is the strong and positive connection between a person and his or her job. It inspires significant outcomes of real value. The State of Michigan (SOM) Employee Survey is an important part of assessing the engagement of Treasury employees. The survey helps ensure a customer-focused government and a work culture in which employees are highly engaged, respected, and valued; and have the opportunity to express and explore views on issues related to their jobs. Treasury periodically conducts internal pulse surveys for each business area, in order to measure the success of actions taken to improve employee engagement since the previous statewide survey. These surveys include the question, “I am encouraged by my Business Area to come up with new and better ways of doing things.”. Pulse surveys data is collected via SurveyMonkey approximately twice a year. A Likert Scale is a type of rating scale used to measure attitudes or opinions. With this scale, respondents are asked to rate items by their level of agreement (5-point Scale): Strongly Disagree (1), Disagree (2), Undecided (3), Agree (4), Strongly Agree (5). Agree scores are calculated by combining the ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ scores. A higher agree score represents overall improvement in employee engagement for this measure.

Employee engagement is the strong and positive connection between a person and his or her job. It inspires significant outcomes of real value. The State of Michigan (SOM) Employee Survey is an important part of assessing the engagement of Treasury employees. The survey helps ensure a customer-focused government and a work culture in which employees are highly engaged, respected, and valued; and have the opportunity to express and explore views on issues related to their jobs. Treasury periodically conducts internal pulse surveys for each business area, in order to measure the success of actions taken to improve employee engagement since the previous statewide survey. These surveys include the question, “I have seen meaningful action taken in my Business Area as a result of the last 2018 Statewide Employee Survey.”. Pulse surveys data is collected via SurveyMonkey approximately twice a year. A Likert Scale is a type of rating scale used to measure attitudes or opinions. With this scale, respondents are asked to rate items by their level of agreement (5-point Scale): Strongly Disagree (1), Disagree (2), Undecided (3), Agree (4), Strongly Agree (5). Agree scores are calculated by combining the ‘agree’ and ‘strongly agree’ scores. A higher agree score represents overall improvement in employee engagement for this measure.