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Benefits of employee surveys

clock September 14, 2011 02:39 by author Administrator
After such a huge recession in the business market all over the world many companies are still trying to come over the losses. Recession has affected many companies, employees and everyone in this field and to get back to the same stability and good position many of the companies need to adopt various helpful measure for their employees to find out what are their expectations and where is organization lacking to fulfill them. Employee surveys have been designed by many of the companies and organizations to find out the issues that come in between the employees and organizations which hamper the working environment and profits related to the work. After the recession terms many companies  have reduced the compensation and additional benefits due to which many employees do not work with their full potential and don’t give their hundred percent. There are many such factors which hamper the work and hard work of an employee and directly or indirectly the organization has to bear them. To know about all these issues and matters, an organization needs to talk to its employees and discuss everything in a peaceful manner. Employee surveys are the unsurpassed ways to increase communication between the employees and the organization. With the help of such surveys organization can know what the employees want and where are they lacking. They can also keep their terms and conditions and all the issues can be solved by mutual understanding. Employee surveys help the employees to keep their issues in front of the organizations desk and get solutions for them. Surveys are performed on all employees and even the results are kept anonymous, thus reducing the risk factor of rift between the employees which motivates them to speak truly.


Why human resource surveys?

clock September 9, 2011 07:28 by author Administrator
Being a CEO or a management head of your company makes you responsible to think for the employees and the rest of the staff working under you. The employees of your company are the representatives of your organization and they are the one who take the work load and give you those occasions where you can feel proud for you organization and its success. Thinking about their working environment and their requirements is your duty. They are the intrinsic force of your organization and neglecting their welfare can be harmful for your organizations as well. So what are you doing to find out the needs and satisfaction of your staff? For all those who are looking for some effective measure to increase their employee satisfaction then human resource surveys are an important ways. These are some of the ways you can reach the heart of your employees and find out where are they lacking and what can be the solution to those concerns. The human resource surveys help you to analyze your employees on various issues and the results can be beneficial in their own ways. These surveys need you to design a questionnaire for the employees which the human resource department can do easily. These questions are based on all the issues concerning the relation between the employees and the management, the relation between the subordinate employees and even to the goals of the company. The human resource surveys will be conducted on the employees in an anonymous manner that is no answers will be made public so that everyone can answer without any fear and hesitation. All the answers and analyzed by some senior members of the company and based on the results every problems is looked further for a solution. This is an effective way by which employees can also keep any of their terms and conditions.


Online surveys-a convenient and cost effective way to gather information

clock September 2, 2011 00:36 by author Administrator
Surveys are a great way to gather information from the employees and about the employees. Generally, a survey is in the form of a questionnaire with a number of questions in it. The questionnaire is to be filled by the person from whom the information is to be gathered. Surveys have enormous use in any organization as it is the source of extremely useful information. Further, the information gathered by the person who do the survey gives the opportunity to the organization to know about its flaws and then to overcome them. There are two ways to conduct a survey-online and offline. The offline way is the old traditional way which is the thing of the past now. In this, the surveys were done using paper and pen. Apart from this phone surveys were also prevalent. But with the advancement in technology, today all this is done with the help of a computer. Yes, the surveys are conducted online. In online surveys the employees fill the questionnaire in the computerized form and then send it to the manager through an e mail. Because of their number of benefits, online surveys are gaining immense popularity in all types of organizations whether big or small. These are cost effective and save a lot of time. The other one of the most important advantage is that there is a huge possibility of getting the true opinion by those doing the survey. This is due to the fact that they may not be hesitant in expressing even their negative views about someone which is very common in case of face to face surveys. In addition, such web surveys also provide more accuracy in comparison to the surveys done on paper or over the phone. Thus, it can be said that online surveys are a superb way to gather information and feedback.


Exit surveys-An organizational attempt to reduce turnovers

clock September 1, 2011 05:23 by author Administrator
For any organization, employees are the building blocks in their management. But due to lack of job satisfaction or other job related troubles employees tend to leave their jobs. Recent research shows that the percentage of employees with lack of job satisfaction has increased. This certainly is a great issue of concern for all the organizations. Thus these organizations have been trying hard to retain their employees in one or the other. There have been many attempts by the employers to decrease this ever mounting percentage of turnovers. Exit survey is one of these attempts which has shown good results. Exit surveys are basically conducted for the employees wanting to exit from their current organization. As the name suggests the employees have to do these surveys and provide their feedback. Generally exit surveys comprise questionnaires through which the organization gets to know the point of view of the employee regarding the management and working of the organization. The questionnaire generally includes many questions such as the reason for leaving the job, opinion about the functioning of the organization, future plans etc. All such questions are asked in order to know the flaws in the organization. In this way, they try to overcome the faults in them and thus try to provide job satisfaction to the employees. However, there have been questions regarding the effectiveness of the exit surveys. It has been identified that the employees are reluctant in giving their true opinion during such surveys. This is because they do not want to mess with their former employer as they may require the reference of their previous boss in their future job. Besides all this fuss, there is no denial to the fact that such surveys are becoming enormously popular among all types of organizations whether big or small.


Exit interview survey software- a comfy and time saving technique

clock August 26, 2011 01:11 by author Administrator
Today, all organizations whether big or small, are aware of the significance of an exit interview. They are extensively carried out in almost all companies. Exit interviews are conducted for those employees who want to exit from their current organization and not for those who want to get an entry. The trend of such interviews has been followed by everyone as it has proven to be highly advantageous. With the help of such interviews, an organization gets to know its flaws and thus further tries to overcome that. Exit interviews are generally conducted by an HR representative. In these interviews, the employee is given a survey to do comprising of questions regarding the reasons for his wish to exit the organization and many other such questions. Most of the time, a former employee of any organization is reluctant to go for such interviews. This is because of hesitation due to face to face nature of the interview and then answering a bundle of questions related to various reasons for his desire to resign. This has given rise to Exit interview survey software. This is a kind of software which helps to conduct exit interviews in an easier and comfortable way. Exit interview survey software is kind of software which lets the employee give these interviews without face to face answering to the interviewer. Basically, a live person takes this interview by listening to the voice of the employee and entering his answers directly into the software. Another way is through an e-mail. The employee can do the electronic survey and send it back to the HR representative but within a particular span of time.This is a well-liked technique to conduct interviews. It is not time consuming. In addition it allows the employee to do the survey in a stress free way as he may likely to be more comfortable answering a compute rather than a person. Thus, Exit interview survey software has gained tremendous popularity amongst all big and small organizations.