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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…

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…

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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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…

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…

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…

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…