Category Archives: Employee Surveys

How to Develop an Employee Retention Strategy Part 2

You need to consistently try to receive employee feedback, including lost employees, to adjust it further based on what works and what doesn’t. Only then can you hope to have a strategy that will maintain the best employees in the organization. Read more…

How to Develop an Employee Retention Strategy Part 1

Employee retention is an important part of building a successful business. Every time you lose an employee, you lose out on their production for as long as the job remains vacant and invest countless hours trying to find a suitable replacement and training them to do the job adequately. Read more…

Sick Days Rewards – A Small Change for a Big Difference Part 1

If your company is one that uses the “use it or lose it” strategy for sick days, there can be several benefits to changing it to something more advantageous for the employee. The greatest benefit is the ability for it to aid in employee satisfaction. Read more…

Skip the Morning Meeting and Plan a Survey Instead Part 1

Meetings are usually used to discuss items of note, explain roles in a project, ask questions or brainstorm. All of these can be completed with a survey. Remember that surveys don’t need to be used just for market research – often they can simply be used as a way to quickly generate feedback or find out information, much like polling or interviewing. 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…

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…

Survey Use for Employee Assessment Part 1

The way that businesses perform most employee evaluations is questionable, and in some ways troublesome. Surveys can easily be used for a much more effective and efficient method of collecting data and evaluating current employees. Read more…

The Psychological Science of Telecommuting

Telecommuting clearly has many psychological benefits, as the study indicates. Indeed, while there may be some unknown risk (perhaps productivity decreases with employees that have more leeway in the amount of work they need to complete?) the evidence says that telecommuting is a benefit for satisfaction and productivity overall. Read more…

How to Attract and Keep the Younger Generation Part 2

Maintaining satisfaction in the younger generation is difficult, and sometimes it’s not worth your time – if the employee is merely an average or slightly above average employee, you may find it’s not worth it to try that hard to improve their satisfaction. But if you have a good young employee that you want to keep – or you’re looking to hire the best young employees into your company – the above list represents some of the potential ways you can attract and maintain satisfaction levels in younger employees. Read more…