Key facts

People matter survey 2024

Positive views from public sector respondents show:

  • 70% feel it’s safe to speak up about inappropriate behaviour or problems and tough issues in their organisation
  • 80% feel their organisation’s culture supports diversity in the workplace.

Most common barriers to success reported by public sector respondents:

  • mental health
  • caring responsibilities
  • age.

Safe to speak up

Organisations with psychologically safe cultures empower employees to:

  • report integrity issues
  • report and respond to negative behaviour
  • remedy mistakes
  • improve performance.

Employees feel safe to speak up if they also feel:

  • safe in their workgroup
  • confident to raise mistakes, concerns and poor behaviour without fear of retribution.


Inclusion

If employees feel valued and included, it can lead to a positive work environment and higher engagement and productivity.



Barriers to success

Workplace barriers prevent employees from working efficiently and effectively.

The results may add up to more than 100% because respondents could choose more than one answer.



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