Category Archives: Employee Satisfaction Surveys

How Allowing Your Employees a Better Work/Life Balance May Improve Satisfaction and Loyalty

It may come as a surprise, but your employees have a personal life, and that personal life plays a significant role in their happiness. It doesn’t matter how much they love their job – if your employees cannot properly balance their work life with their personal life, they’re going to experience stress, and they’ll probably take many unplanned days off. Read more…

7 Myths About Employee Retention Part 2

Employee retention is very important. But it can only be successful if your company understands how it works and is willing to take the right steps to change it. Avoid falling for the above myths and research your employees thoroughly to get a better understanding of their loyalty and their needs. Read more…

7 Myths About Employee Retention Part 1

Employees leave companies for a variety of reasons, and yes – it’s conceivable that pressure can be one of them – but if that’s the case it will almost always be communicated. Often employees leave when their other needs are not being met, not because their job is too hard. Employees that feel their talents are wasted or they’re not being given more responsibility no matter how hard they work may look for better work elsewhere. Read more…

Can Employee Surveys Create Loyalty

Do surveys actually increase employee loyalty? Probably not. But there’s reason to believe they’d be more likely to affect loyalty of employees than of customers, and if you’re truly researching ideas relevant to your employees and follow through with those ideas, the chances it will have an effect almost certainly go up. Read more…

Will Your Employees Tell You if They’re Being Underused? Will You Listen?

If you want to improve your ROI, you have to not only be willing to find out if employees need more work – you have to give it to them. Use what they your employees tell you to your advantage, and see if you can find a way to utilize their abilities elsewhere. Don’t be afraid to challenge employees as well, or give them work to do that isn’t part of their traditional tasks. Read more…

Prospective Matching Between Loyalty and Desired Employees

Employee loyalty is an important measure. Since the costs of replacing even an “adequate” employee can far exceed the internal costs of improving that same employee’s loyalty, ensuring that employees plan to stay with the company is crucial to long term business success. Read more…

Survey Use for Employee Assessment Part 2

The reality of management that many companies seem to forget is that the skills of the manager are based solely on how the employees respond to them, not whether they have previous skills or experience. The best manager is still a bad manager if the employees do not appreciate the person’s leadership, as true management involves the ability to create satisfied employees. Read more…

Can Telecommuting Increase Employee Satisfaction?

Employers are always looking for easy, cost effective ways to improve employee satisfaction. Many cost money – such as improving salaries, dedicating time to training, and so on. One way that may not be nearly as costly and may have a profound impact on employee satisfaction is telecommuting – allowing employees to work away from the office in order to do their work. Read more…

Is it Possible That Personality Plays a Bigger Role in Productivity Than Satisfaction – Part 3

There is no doubt a link between personality, satisfaction, and productivity. There are employees with an abysmal outlook on life that are never satisfied, and others that work extremely hard no matter how they’re treated in the workplace. It would be illogical to assume that employee personality plays no role in both, and companies should always work on hiring those that exhibit positive behaviors. Read more…

Will the New Generation Require You Adjust Your Business Expectations?

One of the reasons that companies choose to study employee satisfaction is because they want to work to try to keep good employees from leaving the company, since the cost of replacing an employee is high, while the value of a great employee is higher still. Employee satisfaction is correlated pretty well with employee longevity, saving the company money and keeping the best employees active and earning revenue. Read more…