Employee Survey
shelby
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We will be conducting an employee survey through an outside consultant in the next several months. I want to come up with some ideas to really promote the survey and urge employees to participate (i.e. free lunch for anyone who turns one in). I'd also like to create a fun slogan for the survey to catch peoples interest. Any fun ideas will be appreciated!
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I suggest you communicate that once they survey is complete and the results have been presented to your senior staff, they will hold meetings to discuss the results and outline steps that will be taken to improve any areas that need improvement. That will get 'em going. Good luck
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1. Promise that the person or people who have the power to change things will see the surveys.
2. Promise anonimity. Go the extra mile to insure that individual employees cannot be identified.
3. Promise detailed feedback. ie - how many people marked which answers. A summary of essay answers. Don't attempt to soften critical answers.
4. Promise follow-up. This may mean meetings to clarify or discuss issues.
5. Promise that issues needing attention will be seriously addressed. Answers like "we don't have enough money to do that " is not enough.
6. Promise periodic follow-up surveys(perhaps annually) that ask, among other things, what they thought of the last survey and the response to it.
Good luck.
An employee survey without appropriate feedback and without some degree of action is a morale buster and a builder of non-trust.
I guarantee you that if you had a 48% response rate and you addressed the major concerns and communicated that well in followup meetings, that will generate all the enthusiasm you need for your upcoming effort. I can't help with the idea of a 'theme' or a fun gimmick since I don't see the connection or need for those with this particular activity.
Now, I do see a down side to what you did earlier. You ignored or did not address EVERY concern, therefore you have possibly disenfranchised quite a few respondents who may think their input did not warrant action or did not rise to the level of importance that other responses to your survey got. Perhaps you could have a second phase where you select some of those for action. Or at least address all of them before you move to the next level. What your system did was give the perception of ignoring those that did not perhaps get mentioned at least seven times in the initial survey.