Category Archives: Employee Review

New Idea for Company Research: The Mystery Employee

Ensuring that you have a healthy workplace environment is crucial for your business’s success, but generally it’s difficult to get an accurate picture of what the workplace is like for lower level/entry level employees. Having a secret insider employee, either just for the workplace trainings or as a snitch for executives can be advantageous in learning more about how your company operates. Read more…

How Recruitment Companies Can Use Surveys for Intake Data

Recruitment companies are a prime example of how surveys can be used for things other than research. In today’s economy, recruiters have an increased pressure to match companies with the best possible employees. Traditional resume/data entry methods are useful, but surveys can be a very effective method of streamlining the process in a way that is advantageous for the recruitment company. Read more…

Potential Flaws of Matching Employees with Productivity

Regardless, these all represent potential flaws with matching performance and loyalty – flaws that are almost entirely due to poor performance metrics. Before you can consider launching employee loyalty efforts based on productivity scores, you first need to make sure that all of your productivity and performance metrics are measuring the employees fairly and accurately. Only then can you hope for the data you collect about loyalty to be worthwhile.
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How Useful is an Employee Review? Part 2

It’s clear that the way evaluations take place need to change, both for employee loyalty/satisfaction and for your company to spot the truly great employees. Semi-annual or annual evaluations had their place, but there are better ways to evaluate talent that need to be in effect to ensure that your company is valuing the right people. Read more…

How Useful is an Employee Review? Part 1

For years, businesses have used semi-annual reviews to evaluate employees. A supervisor or several supervisors sit in a room and discuss what the employee did or didn’t do. Often they even ask the employee to fill out a self-evaluation, which is a curious thing to ask an employee to do in its own right, and they sit awkwardly and discuss what the employee has done over the past year. Read more…