Have Employee Surveys Become Too Commonplace?

In most of today’s larger organizations, employee surveys have become commonplace. And, on the surface at least, that would seem to be a very positive thing.

Employee surveys, after all, are intended to be a form of two-way communication with members of a company’s workforce. They are intended to provide senior managers with invaluable insight related to how employees think and feel about their jobs and their futures. They are intended to help management assess and measure things that would otherwise be ambiguous, like degrees of “alignment” and “employee engagement”. They are ...

Overview

Like most organizational initiatives, employee surveys only appear to be simple. But in fact, developing, deploying, analyzing and responding to employee surveys require managers to think like psychologists, analyze like statisticians, and respond like sociologists.

However, as in many things, a good process that supports sound strategy is always the answer. There needs to be a fundamental shift in strategy in order to take full advantage of the ten critical success factors listed below.

The correct methodology provides the ability for any organization to get higher value than ever before. In order to do more than just a survey ...