The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has responded to recent media reports that an internal survey revealed its staff “overwhelmingly” believed wrongdoers weren’t being held to account.
In a statement, the CSIRO said its 2021-2022 Culture Survey took place between March and April 2022 to understand the key strengths and challenges of culture, with results shared with staff in May.
“The survey results showed there are many strengths to CSIRO’s culture, including that our people are clear and aligned around CSIRO’s purpose, strategic direction and intent,” the CSIRO said.
“It showed our people are well-informed through effective sharing of information, value working as a team and that they felt innovation was encouraged and rewarded,” it said.
“The survey also told us we still have some challenges and opportunities to strengthen our culture.
“This includes improving how we work together and live our values.”
In response to this, CSIRO said it was taking a multi-pronged approach to strengthen culture.
“Over the past six months progress has been made on this, including an increased investment in leadership capability and values, local actions for each Business Unit and organisation-wide programs of work to simplify and strengthen how we work together,” the Organisation said.
“CSIRO is measuring the impact of these actions with a ‘pulse’ survey planned for early 2023.”
It said a reporting framework had also been developed to track and monitor relevant metrics.
