Faculty and Staff Experience Survey
Frequently Asked Questions
Select a section below to learn more
All of Mason's employees are invited to participate in the survey. This includes I/R faculty, adjunct faculty, classified staff, A/P faculty, wage employees, and student and graduate student employees.
The Faculty & Staff Experience Survey will launch on Monday, April 18, 2022, and will be open for approximately two weeks.
Every employee will receive an email invitation from Gallup with a unique link to the survey. Be on the lookout for this email invitation and reminders!
Yes, you may participate in the survey during work or at another time. The survey is available online during the two-week administration window beginning on Monday, April 18, 2022.
On Monday, April 18, 2022, all Mason employees will receive an email from Gallup with a unique link to the survey. The survey is online and can be completed on your smart phone.
Because everyone will receive a unique link, please do not forward your email to others for their use.
If you did not receive a survey invitation email, accidentally deleted it, or otherwise do not have access to the email, the survey is accessible via Gallup. If you access the survey via Gallup, the survey code will be your Net ID (characters to the left of the @ sign in your email).
Completing the survey should take approximately ten minutes.
No. You may only participate once in the survey.
While not mandatory, you are highly encouraged to participate. Mason wants to hear from you. As a community we want to celebrate our strengths and co-create solutions to address our challenges.
Yes.
- Gallup adheres to strict confidentiality rules for survey responses.
- All data collected is stored by Gallup and is kept strictly confidential.
- Individual responses remain confidential and will NOT be shared with Mason or its leadership.
- All responses are aggregated into a larger working groups/divisions consisting of no fewer than five employees to ensure responses cannot be traced back to the individual.
- Gallup creates and issues unique survey links to each employee; Mason will not have access to these links.
- The email invitation from Gallup will NOT ask for any personal information (date of birth, social security number, etc.).
No.
- The email invitation is sent through Gallup, not Mason.
- Gallup creates and issues links that route survey participants to the Gallup survey platform – the survey is not hosted on a Mason server.
- All data is collected and stored by Gallup.
- Gallup adheres to strict confidentiality rules for survey responses.
- Individual responses remain confidential and will not be shared with Mason.
- All responses are aggregated into larger working groups/divisions consisting of no fewer than five employees to ensure responses cannot be linked to an individual.
Learn more on the Engagement at Mason page.
Learn more on the About the Survey page.
Learn more on the Engagement Process and Action Planning page.
High-level results of the survey will be shared with Mason's senior leaders and HR leaders in the summer of 2022.
There will be a live training held by Gallup for all Team Leaders and Direct Supervisors once Gallup's Access Portal is available and all team analytics are available. This training will be recorded and available on MasonLEAPS if you are unable to attend.