Results of the 2022 Personnel Monitor announced

In 2022, employees were invited to take part in the Personnel Monitor from 17 October to 11 November. In total, the questionnaire was completed by 58.9% of employees and 33.2% of PhD candidates. A big thank you to all the colleagues who took the time to make their voices heard! Would you like to know the response rate of your faculty/unit? See here for an overview.

Would you like to view all results?

The results of the Personnel Monitor can be viewed until 31 March 2023 in the secure online environment of Effectory, the external agency that organises the monitor for us. On Monday 19 December you received an e-mail from Effectory with an access link. If you are a manager, you received an additional link to a separate environment where you can gain insight into the results and actions you can take in response.

Discussing the results

The survey does not stop at the results. On the contrary, the results are the start of an open conversation with each other about what works well, what requires attention, and where we can improve things. Faculties and units have been asked to devise and initiate concrete action plans to improve work experience where needed. Deans, operational managers, directors and managers discuss the results with each other and their employees.

Webinars for managers

To support managers in talking to their staff about the results of the Monitor, we organised webinars in the week of 9 January 2023. The English webinar took place on Thursday 12 January.

During the webinar, we talked about how you can interpret the results of the Monitor, and how you can work with these results in your team. Vice-chairman of the Executive Board Martijn Ridderbos joined the webinars on behalf of the Executive Board. 

Would you like to view the webinar presentation? You can download the slides via the 'Documents' menu at the top right corner of this page.

Your anonymity is guaranteed

It is crucial that the answers cannot be traced back to an individual in the results and reports. Anonymity is guaranteed in several ways:

• No group or team reports are generated for units that have fewer than ten members of staff, and at least five members of staff from each unit must have responded.
• Answers to questions concerning social safety are only available as a report if a unit counts at least 75 staff members. We have chosen for these criteria because these answers are particularly sensitive, and the results refer to the percentage of employees who have experienced a given situation.
• We deliberately chose to not include open-ended questions in the Personnel Monitor. In this way, we avoid answers accidentally being traced back to an individual, for example through a description of a specific work situation or experience.

For more information about the design of the Personnel Monitor, see the FAQ.

Important themes

The Personnel Monitor explores important themes. These themes were chosen based on current developments, the 2021 Personnel Monitor Light, and broad consultation. The University Council and Local Consultative Committee were also involved in the discussions.

Besides standard themes such as enthusiasm and engagement, the Monitor focuses on
• Work opportunities, including facilities and conditions
• Wellbeing and workload, including social safety, overtime hours, and the causes of work pressure
• Leadership and autonomy, including cooperation within teams, self-management, and the relationship with the supervisor and management
• Inclusion, including equal treatment and being allowed to be yourself
• Enduring employability, including opportunities for advancement, mobility, and development
PhD candidates were also asked some additional questions that focused specifically on their work experience as a PhD candidate.

Prize for the highest response rate

Our congratulations to Operational Management and Advisory (Administration and Central Services), Communication & Marketing (Faculty of Humanities), Finances (Administration and Central Services) and Digital Services (Leiden University Library), which were the first to achieve the highest response rate this year! As a thank you, they were treated to a half-day of great coffee, tea, and smoothies from a Bar Company mobile barista. This prize was sponsored by Healthy University.

And a special mention for Theoretical Chemistry (Faculty of Science) and Learning & Development (Administration and Central Services).