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Inactive Records Storage
Using the Records Center
Records Retrieval
Interfiling
Disposition of Records
Shredding of Confidential Records


What's a Vital Record?
Why Are Vital Records so Important?
How Do You Identify a Vital Record?
How Do You Protect and Store a Vital Record?
Steps for Offices to Follow
Appendices


Why File Management?
File What?
Developing or Improving a Filing System
Purging
Maintaining a Filing System: Inactive Storage
Appendices

Balanced Scorecard

 

Customer Satifaction Survey: Selected Results

Complete Results

The 2006 customer satisfaction survey conducted for University of Washington Records Management Services, the first such survey for this Business Service- was conducted among one group of 239 customers. The following chart provides illustration of the total universe, the number of surveys completed in 2006, and the corresponding response rate for each.

2006

Email Sent Completed Surveys Undeliverable/Bounce-back Out of Office Response Rate

841

239

21

62

32%

Overall satisfaction with the experience provided by Records Management Services is high, with a mean rating of 5.80- rated on a 7-point scale where '1' means not at all satisfied and '7' means very satisfied.

Overall Satisfaction with Experience
BASE=All Respondents (n=239)

Overall, how satisfied are you with your experiences with Records Management Services?

Top Box (6 or 7)

Mean Score

68%

5.80

Records Management Services customers, using a ‘7’ point scale where ‘1’ means not easy at all, and ‘7’ means very easy, give Records Management Services high ratings, with an average of 6.04, on ease of working with Records Management Services.

Ease of Working with Records Management Services
BASE=All Respondents (n=239)

Please rate how easy Records Management Services is to work with.

Top Box (6 or 7)

Mean Score

74%

6.04

Using a 7-point scale where ‘1’ means not easy at all, and ‘7’ means very easy, the majority (80%) of customers indicate that Records Management Services is easy to contact, a rating of a ‘6’ or ‘7’. Overall, customers report high average ratings (6.19).

Ease of Contacting Records Management Services
BASE=All Respondents=239

How easy is it to contact Records Management Services?

Top Box 6 or 7

Mean Score

80%

6.19

Records Management Services offers a variety of services. All customers were asked to rate Records Management Services on eight identified areas of service: development of records retention schedules, consultation on files management, consultation on electronic records (scanning, imaging, database, email and the web), consultation on vital records (including disaster recovery), inactive records storage at the University Records Center (including retrieval and destruction), shredding of confidential records not stored in the University Records Center, assistance in recovery of damaged records, and assistance in complying with audits, public records requests, and litigation.

Customer’s rate all but one service area high in importance, among the top rated are assistance in complying with audits, public records requests, and litigation, with a mean score of 6.53, and development of records retention schedules – average rating of 6.28. Shredding of confidential records not stored in the University Records Center is perceived as the least important, comparatively, with an average rating of 5.71.

Records Management Areas of Service Rated for Importance
BASE=All Respondents=239

 

Assistance in complying with audits, public records requests, and litigation

Top Box 6 or 7

Mean Score

91%

6.53

Development of records retention schedule 81% 6.28
Inactive records storage at the University Records Center (including retrieval and destruction. 80% 6.21
Consultation on vital records (including disaster recovery) 80% 6.18
Consultation on files management 74% 5.97
Consultation on electronic records (scanning, imaging, database, email, and the web) 74% 5.91
Assistance in recovery of damaged records 71% 5.88
Shredding of confidential records not stored in the University Records Center 68% 5.71

After rating the importance of services by Records Management Services, customers were asked to rate their satisfaction in the same areas.

Satisfaction scores among customers are closely aligned with importance ratings, which are rated high in most areas. Assistance in complying with audits, public records requests, and litigation – average of 6.29, is recognized as the measure in which customers are most satisfied. Customers indicate that shredding of confidential records not stored in the University Records Center, 5.58, is the measure in which they are least satisfied, comparatively.

Satisfaction with Records Management Areas of Service 
BASE=All Respondents=239

 

Assistance in complying with audits, public records requests, and litigation

Top Box 6 or 7

Mean Score

82%

6.29

Development of records retention schedule 80% 6.18
Inactive records storage at the University Records Center (including retrieval and destruction. 78% 6.08
Consultation on files management 77% 6.13
Assistance in recovery of damaged records 77% 6.11
Consultation on vital records (including disaster recovery) 75% 5.99
Consultation on electronic records (scanning, imaging, database, email, and the web) 71% 5.75
Shredding of confidential records not stored in the University Records Center 66% 5.58

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