Boosting Employee Morale

Are Employee Recognition Programs Cost Effective?

If your business does not have an employee recognition program, you are missing out on one of the most cost effective morale building tools at your disposal.

Of course, it costs money to create an employee recognition program such as money for awards and money in man-hours spent on reviewing the nominations for recognition. . . . → Read More: Are Employee Recognition Programs Cost Effective?

Creating an Effective Employee Recognition Program

If you’re involved in designing your company’s employee recognition program, there are specific factors which should be incorporated into the design to ensure the employee recognition program is effective and will truly raise morale and productivity.

No matter what product or service your organization delivers, the design factors in the employee recognition program are . . . → Read More: Creating an Effective Employee Recognition Program

Confidentiality in Employee Surveys

Employee surveys, whether engagement surveys, satisfaction surveys, development surveys, or any other type of employee survey will absolutely fail if employees don’t believe in the confidentiality of their survey responses. No employee is satisfied with everything all the time, and surveys are an outlet to allow the employees to share what areas they would . . . → Read More: Confidentiality in Employee Surveys

Measuring Improvement Through Follow-Up Surveys

You’ve measured your employees’ thoughts and feelings through employee surveys, analyzed the results and implemented action plans to effect change. Do you know if you made the right changes?

How can you tell?

After changes based on action plans have been implemented and in effect for some period of time, usually 6 months or . . . → Read More: Measuring Improvement Through Follow-Up Surveys

Introducing Employees to Employee Surveys

Employee survey introduction can make or break the effectiveness of your employee surveys. You have developed an employee survey with a specific reason in mind – some area you need to know more about how the employees feel or think. You need this information because you feel there may be a problem or concern . . . → Read More: Introducing Employees to Employee Surveys

Interpreting Employee Satisfaction Survey Results: Figuring Out What Is Important

Employee satisfaction survey results, or any other type of employee survey, have to be interpreted in a meaningful way to determine what is important.

You have to learn what is important to the employees to be able to understand how much a positive or negative response actually means to problem identification.

Let’s say you . . . → Read More: Interpreting Employee Satisfaction Survey Results: Figuring Out What Is Important

Employee Survey Logistics – Deploying an Employee Survey

Employee survey deployment can make your employee survey, regardless of the type survey you need, much easier to summarize and glean meaningful data, or much harder to deal with.

Deployment makes all the difference.

If you use your company’s Intranet or a secure Internet site as a means of deployment, you will be able . . . → Read More: Employee Survey Logistics – Deploying an Employee Survey

Creating an Action Plan Based on Employee Survey Results

After performing an employee survey, you analyze the results.

Perhaps you have found that nothing is badly broken, but you will find areas which could be better. In fact, if you created a survey where all the responses returned indicated everything was perfect, you have created the wrong survey!

It is much easier to . . . → Read More: Creating an Action Plan Based on Employee Survey Results