EQUALITY GUIdE - KU Leuven

Chapter 1 ! Personnel development and organisational culture 47
into account.
Factor 5: Openness of the supervisor to equal opportunities " = 0.785
The relationship between co-workers and the supervisor is good. 0.461
Colleagues respect the expression of other colleagues’ cultures. 0.354
My superior gives me enough freedom to perform my tasks. 0.545
The supervisor pays attention to work-life balance. 0.371
Possibility to work at home. 0.642
Women and men get equal opportunities concerning their careers. 0.464
In my unit, we can choose at what time we start and stop working (flexible working
0.727
hours).
You are expected to leave your personal problems at home. 0.343
Factor 6: Influence of informal networks " = 0.790
Being friends with the right people is more important than delivering good work. 0.333
Only a limited number of people from my unit are involved in making decisions. 0.402
In my unit more things are discussed informally (e.g. in the coffee break, at
0.780
lunchtime, etc) than during formal meetings.
In my unit, more decisions are maden informally than during formal meetings. 0.768
You need to be forceful to have a say during meetings in our unit. 0.406
Extraction Method: Principal Axis Factoring. Rotation Method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization.
A factor analysis was also performed on the first part of the student survey, which was
reworked completely for the final testing. Unfortunately, factor 1 was not very reliable
(see Cronbach " values in table 5). It was therefore recommended to use the factors
(that constitute the different scales on organizational climate) from the pre-test mentioned
earlier, combined with some items from the final test (see the final surveys in the
Tool Annex for the end result). Table 5 below shows the factor and reliability analysis
from the final test.
Table 5: Factors and reliability analysis from the final testing
Factor names and high loading variables
Cronbach " and
factor loadings
Factor 1: Study atmosphere " = 0.412
In my class there is an atmosphere that gives me the feeling of being part of it. 0.753
Fellow students are prepared to give each other help or advice. 0.850
Expressions of culture are respected. 0.542
There is a competitive atmosphere.
&0.347
Ideas can be expressed openly without being condemned. 0.584
Fellow students pass on information to each other. 0.707
Fellow students consider each other as competitors.
&0.499