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Employee Culture & Climate Survey 2024

Overview and Methodology In the fall of 2024, Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business invited all current employees, faculty, academic staff, university support staff, and students to evaluate the climate and culture within the college. This report focuses on the results of the employee survey. The data collecon instrument used in 2024 was based on the instrument used in 2022 1 . While efforts were made to maintain the same quesons for comparison between the two me periods, slight changes in wording and queson structure were incorporated in 2024 to beer meet the needs of the college. In the secon of this report that compares the 2022 and 2024 results, any deviaons in queson wording or structure are noted. The full version of the survey instrument can be found in Appendix A. The data collecon instrument contained the following secons: • Introducon and Informed Consent • Climate and Environment – 34 quesons • Bias Incidences – 19 quesons • Department/Unit Climate – 15 quesons • Climate Feedback – 3 open-ended quesons| • Demographics – 8 quesons. Populaon The survey was administered to 351 Eli Broad College of Business employees, which included 83 academic staff, 172 faculty, 73 APA/APSA 2 , and 23 Clerical/Technical using a web-based data collecon plaorm. All data was submied anonymously. Table 1 displays the demographic profile of The Eli Broad College of Business employees based on instuonal data. This informaon is ulized to evaluate how representave the collected data is of the overall populaon. A negave value for the difference means that the group was underrepresented and a posive value for difference means that the group was overrepresented. The data slightly overrepresents females by 8.4%, academic staff by 7.3%, and APSA/APA by 6.6%. Conversely, it underrepresents faculty by 12.1%. However, the data is highly representave of the populaon in terms of race- ethnicity and department/unit.

1 The 2022 study was conducted by SoundRocket,LLC. 2 APA is the Administrave Professional Associaon and APSA is the Administrave Professional Supervisor Associaon.