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.