Employee Engagement Survey

Hi There,

We are planning to run an employee engagement survey to understand how people generally feel about working in the company, including what they like and what they feel could be improved.

I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience with engagement surveys and any advice or recommendations you might have. In particular, would you suggest using mostly open-ended questions, multiple-choice questions, or a combination of both?

I’ve never run a survey like this before, so any guidance would be very helpful. We have several departments across the company, and I was thinking of asking the same core questions to everyone so that we can compare the results and identify any common themes or differences between departments.

Any suggestions on how best to structure the survey, the types of questions to include, or things to avoid would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Keep it simple.

    Ask only about issues you are willing or able to change, alter, or improve.

    Unless you are going to produce some kind of sophisticated analysis of the results then perhaps keep it simple.  ie, 

    "What is the best thing about working for ............. ?
    "What is the worst thing about working for..............?

    "What would you change?

    Those three questions should pull out as much information as you might need.  Its easy to look through them and quickly see what issues are coming up.  IE, "most people who worked in department XX commented negatively on their manager",

    or:-" No comments  (or very few comments) were made about pay, or T & C".  etc.,

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  • Keep it simple.

    Ask only about issues you are willing or able to change, alter, or improve.

    Unless you are going to produce some kind of sophisticated analysis of the results then perhaps keep it simple.  ie, 

    "What is the best thing about working for ............. ?
    "What is the worst thing about working for..............?

    "What would you change?

    Those three questions should pull out as much information as you might need.  Its easy to look through them and quickly see what issues are coming up.  IE, "most people who worked in department XX commented negatively on their manager",

    or:-" No comments  (or very few comments) were made about pay, or T & C".  etc.,

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