- Most organizations spend a lot of time and resources conducting surveys to gather knowledge about employee satisfaction.
- However, such surveys should cover much more than overall employee happiness. The survey is a means to an end – the objective should be to assess employee engagement in order to identify and implement necessary change to better the organization.
- In most cases, organizations are not only failing to leverage engagement surveys to their full potential, but they are also hurting employee engagement due to the lack of change implementation and communication.
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Critical Insight
- The purpose of an engagement survey is organizational change: to first measure the drivers behind engagement, and then to improve it.
- Surveys should be treated as projects. A project plan with milestones, deliverables, stakeholders, and goals should be drafted and agreed upon before the process begins.
- To optimize the use of employee engagement surveys, they should be developed, administered, and analyzed with objective third-party involvement.
- A company’s priorities must be reflected in the survey questions, and in how the results are analyzed and reported.
- Survey data should be used to determine what makes employees happy, but more importantly, it should identify what is important to them when it comes to engagement.
- The most significant errors occur in the back end of the survey project – deciding what to change, executing on the proposed changes, and then communicating them to the organization.
Impact and Result
- Gain a better understanding of what effective employee engagement surveys can and should deliver, and how to carry them out.
- Use a variety of tools and templates to help choose and use a canned or customized survey approach, deploy the survey to gain high participation rates, and report the results to identify priority change areas.