RISE: Analysing your survey data - Step 2

STAGE 2: Analysing job satisfaction data

The purpose of this section is to understand the job satisfaction of your department.

Introduction

The purpose of this section is to understand the job satisfaction of your department. These results can often be very varied between different staff within the department. The Action Plan section will have additional guidance of what to focus on and how to deal with a range of scenarios.

Note that the scores are reversed here, left hand side is more ‘positive’ and ‘ right hand side is more ‘negative’

2A. Looking at strengths

Which three job satisfaction statements score the highest?

Is this what you expected? Does it surprise you? Can you explain any of these scores?

2B. Looking for areas of development

Which three job satisfaction statements score the lowest?

2C. Comparing your data with the cohort data

Providing you have a response rate of around 80% for your department, you should be able to make some tentative comparisons with the cohort data. Look at the ranked scores and the actual percentages.

Ranked

How does the ranking of your department (top to bottom) compare with the cohort (top to bottom). Are there significant difference? e.g. two or more places (up or down)?

Percentage comparison

This may only be possible with high response rates and larger departments (10+).

Are these scores for each job satisfaction statement inline with or significantly higher or lower than the cohort data?

Is this what you expected? Does it surprise you? Can you explain any of these scores?

2D. Analysing the comments

There are two opportunities for staff to give comments: what they like best and what they think would improve in the department.

Usually these are single words or short phrases, though some teachers write a short paragraph.

To analyse these, group them into themes. For example, the key themes that came out in the pilot study (2020-21)

Example A: The best things about working in the science department are...

  • The team/people/colleagues
  • Support from colleagues
  • Collaboration between colleagues
  • Leadership within the department
  • Leadership within school
  • The students

Example B: Working in this science department could be improved if we had…

  • Improved resources (classrooms/equipment)
  • More time for development
  • More support
  • More time to work together
  • Better leadership within department
  • Better leadership in school