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2022 Public Service Employee Survey results: Executives

About the data

Methodological notes

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The dashboards show the Public Service Employee Survey (PSES) results for specific demographic groups in comparison with the results for other employees.

About the data

Percentages reflect the total of different possible affirmative responses (in other words, “Strongly agree” and “Somewhat agree” responses; “Always/Almost always” and “Often” responses; “Very high” and “High” responses; “To a large extent” and “To a very large extent” responses; or the selected response from a list).

Percentages exclude the responses “Don’t know” and “Not applicable.”

Results by employment equity group are on the Open Government Portal, in the EEInfoDV dataset.

Results by group

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Executives

In the 2022 PSES, 5,590 respondents were executives.

Question Result for executives (2020) Result for executives (2022) Result for all other employees (2022)
Felt valued at work 84% 82% 72%
Were proud of the work they do 94% 93% 85%
Liked their job 89% 87% 81%
Intended to leave their position 40% 47% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 76% 72% 68%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 30% 37% 19%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 8% 10% 11%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 5% 6% 8%

Executives compared with assistant deputy ministers

Question Result for EX 01s, EX 02s and EX 03s Result for ADMs
Felt valued at work 82% 86%
Were proud of the work they do 93% 97%
Liked their job 86% 93%
Intended to leave their position 48% 44%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 72% 84%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 37% 32%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 10% 8%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 6% 4%

Executives compared with middle managers

In the 2022 PSES, 5,590 respondents were executives; 40,180 respondents were middle managers (in other words, supervisors but not executives).

Question Result for executives Result for middle managers
Felt valued at work 82% 74%
Were proud of the work they do 93% 88%
Liked their job 87% 82%
Intended to leave their position 47% 37%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 72% 65%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 37% 28%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 10% 11%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 6% 8%

Middle managers

In the 2022 PSES, 40,180 respondents said they were middle managers (in other words, supervisors but not executives).

Question Result for middle managers Result for all other employees
Felt valued at work 74% 72%
Were proud of the work they do 88% 84%
Liked their job 82% 81%
Intended to leave their position 37% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 65% 68%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 28% 17%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 11% 11%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 8% 8%

Executive women

In the 2022 PSES, 2,966 respondents were executive women.

Question Result for executive women Result for all other employees
Felt valued at work 82% 73%
Were proud of the work they do 94% 86%
Liked their job 88% 82%
Intended to leave their position 46% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 72% 69%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 37% 18%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 12% 10%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 6% 7%

Executives with a disability

Question Result for executives with a disability Result for all other employees
Felt valued at work 76% 73%
Were proud of the work they do 93% 86%
Liked their job 83% 82%
Intended to leave their position 50% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 66% 69%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 45% 19%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 19% 10%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 13% 7%

Racialized executives

Question Result for racialized executives Result for all other employees
Felt valued at work 83% 74%
Were proud of the work they do 94% 86%
Liked their job 87% 83%
Intended to leave their position 45% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 72% 70%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 38% 18%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 15% 10%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 11% 7%

Indigenous executives

Question Result for Indigenous executives Result for all other employees
Felt valued at work 82% 73%
Were proud of the work they do 94% 86%
Liked their job 89% 82%
Intended to leave their position 46% 38%
Felt their workplace is psychologically healthy 69% 69%
Experienced “high” or “very high” levels of work-related stress 36% 19%
Experienced harassment in the workplace in the last 12 months 12% 10%
Experienced discrimination in the workplace in the last 12 months 8% 7%

Comparative results for executives and middle managers

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Figure 1: Results for executives compared with results for all other employees
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Question Result for executives (2020) Result for executives (2022) Result for all other employees (2022)
Believed their organization respects individual differences 86% 82% 75%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 65% 66% 78%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 26% 28% 74%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 73% 71% 63%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 69% 68% 60%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 80% 74% 69%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 83% 80% 78%
Figure 2: Results for executives compared with results for assistant deputy ministers
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Question Result for executives Result for assistant deputy ministers
Believed their organization respects individual differences 82% 91%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 66% 70%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 27% 23%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 71% 84%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 69% 73%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 74% 84%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 80% 83%
Figure 3: Results for executives compared with results for middle managers
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Question Result for executives Result for middle managerstable 1 note *
Believed their organization respects individual differences 82% 76%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 66% 74%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 28% 53%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 71% 62%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 68% 62%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 74% 67%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 80% 76%

Table 1 Notes

Table 1 Note 1

Employees who are supervisors but not executives

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Figure 4: Results for middle managers compared with results for all other employees
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Question Result for middle managerstable 1 note * Result for all other employees
Believed their organization respects individual differences 76% 75%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 74% 79%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 53% 79%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 62% 63%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 62% 59%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 67% 69%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 76% 78%

Table 1 Notes

Table 1 Note 1

Employees who are supervisors but not executives

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Figure 5: Results for executive women compared with results for all other employees
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Question Result for executive women Result for all other employees
Believed their organization respects individual differences 81% 76%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 67% 79%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 24% 74%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 72% 64%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 70% 61%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 74% 70%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 79% 79%
Figure 6: Results for executives with a disability compared with results for all other employees
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Question Result for executives with a disability Result for all other employees
Believed their organization respects individual differences 77% 76%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 61% 78%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 26% 73%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 68% 64%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 63% 61%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 70% 70%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 77% 78%
Figure 7: Results for racialized executives compared with results for all other employees
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Question Result for racialized executives Result for all other employees
Believed their organization respects individual differences 77% 77%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 69% 79%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 28% 73%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 68% 65%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 67% 61%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 74% 70%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 82% 79%
Figure 8: Results for Indigenous executives compared with results for all other employees
bar graph showing results for Indigenous executives compared with results for all other employees. Text version below:
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Question Result for Indigenous executives Result for all other employees
Believed their organization respects individual differences 83% 76%
Felt supported to balance their work and personal life 67% 78%
Felt they could complete their assigned workload during their regular work hours 28% 73%
Believed their organization does a good job of supporting employee career development 78% 64%
Believed they had opportunities for promotion within organization 72% 61%
Felt they received meaningful recognition for work well done 69% 69%
Felt they received useful feedback from their supervisor 74% 78%

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