Teams & Issues: Work Climate Team
Focus
The VOICES of the Staff Work Climate team will focus on understanding attitudes and behaviors in the workplace that contribute to creating and fostering a positive work culture. The team will explore ways that the work climate at the University of Michigan can support and sustain employee performance, creativity, and motivation through positive workplace interactions and organizational practices.
Objectives
To examine the selected topic of Work Climate by:
- Listening to, and learning from the work climate experiences of U-M staff to help address related issues that matter most for staff.
- Learning about current best thinking with regards to the creation of work climates that motivates and improves performance at all levels.
- Identifying opportunities and areas of interest, which could include such topics as communications, ethics, workplace safety.
- Identifying and proposing mechanisms to support positive working relationships between employees and their managers.
- Identifying mechanisms to generate and facilitate the flow of communication and information between different levels within work units (e.g. staff, managers, faculty, and physicians); promoting respectful communication and engagement that recognizes and values the contributions of each member of the unit.
- Serving as a sounding board for new initiatives or strategies as they relate to improving and enhancing the university’s work climate.
- Finding ways to share what is learned with the wider staff community.
Network Team Members
| Team Members | Department |
|---|---|
Susan Agnew |
Comprehensive Cancer Center |
Monica Boles |
Hospital Food Procurement |
Claudette Brower |
Student Conflict Resolution |
Fernando Caetano |
Health System Human Resources |
Marna Clowney-Robinson |
University Libraries |
Michael Gramza |
Facilities Maintenance |
Stacey Hall |
Hospital Security Services |
Mary Heatherly |
UMH Materiel Services |
Keisha Huff |
Development Office |
LeKisha Maxwell |
College of Literature, Science & Arts |
Khyaati Mody |
Recreational Sports |
Connie Myres |
Mott Hospital Operating Room |
Colleen Root |
Rackham Graduate School |
Trisa Schlaff |
UM-Dearborn |
Bruce Skinner |
Internal Medicine |
Lynetta Smith |
Hospital Sercurity Services |
Blake Swihart |
Clinical Trials Office |
Melody Vanoy |
Health System Human Resources |
Jo Williams |
Howell Pediatrics |
Mary Cardwell, Facilitator |
UMH Cardiology |
Marcy Ceccanese, Facilitator |
Ross School of Business |
David Betts, Advisor |
HR Institutional Equity |
Kelly, Advisor |
Health System Human Resources |
Anthony Walesby, Advisor |
HR Institutional Equity |
Prof. Kim Cameron, Advisor |
Ross School of Business |
Prof. Lynn Wooten, Advisor |
Ross School of Business |
Prof. Ann Larimore, Advisor |
College of Literature, Science & Arts |