Employee Insights Survey invitations go out next month
Posted on: February 20, 2025; Updated on: February 20, 2025
By Collyn Taylor, collyntaylor@sc.edu, 803-777-3691
The Employee Insights Survey is USC Columbia's opportunity to share candid feedback about your workplace experience, culture and overall engagement.
By participating, faculty and staff help shape meaningful improvements in leadership, communication, career development and workplace culture.
The survey will run March 17-31 and will be your chance to make an impact and help create a workplace where everyone can succeed. The survey is confidential, ensuring you can speak openly and honestly.
University leadership is using the ModernThink Employee Engagement Survey, one of the most respected employee engagement surveys in higher education. Participating this spring ensures eligibility in the Great Colleges to Work For® program.
About the survey: ModernThink will deliver the survey via email on March 17. All results are due by
March 31.
The email will contain a survey link and a unique username and password.
- The survey should take about 20 minutes to complete. Once you start filling out the survey, you can save progress and come back to it later.
- Responses are completely confidential, and no USC employee will see your individual survey results. Reports to USC will include aggregated data of five or more employees to protect your anonymity.
- Who’s eligible? This survey is available and will be delivered to all FTE employees at USC Columbia and both schools of medicine (faculty and staff) as well as research grant (RGP) and time-limited (TML) positions.
About the questions: The survey consists of statements you will need to respond to using a five-point agreement scale from strongly agree to strongly disagree. There is also a not applicable response option.
- It will include 60 core survey questions, institution-specific questions and a small number of open-ended prompts.
- You’ll be able to give input into things like collaboration, confidence in senior leadership, employee well-being and much more.
Why it matters: USC is dedicated to the people in our community that make this place home.
- This survey will have a direct, positive influence on the direction and work environment at USC as well as serve as a baseline for future feedback and institutional priorities.
- Survey results and recommendations will be shared with USC leadership this summer, with employees this fall and university leadership will begin implementing change plans over the course of next academic year (2025-26).
More information can be found on the Human Resources website.