By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady
BLR’s founder introduces the National Employee Attitude Survey and invites you to find out more about your own workers’ attitudes, and how they benchmark to others, at no cost to you.
In November, I wrote in this space about the employee attitude survey we’ve used at BLR for more than 10 years. It tracks how our staff feels about the company and their jobs.
It focuses on just a few, narrow questions on communication, supervision, and teamwork, and gives simple, direct answers that, over the years, have helped us see things that we wouldn’t have otherwise.
Every question is asked two ways: “How is the company doing on this?” and “How important is this to you?” (The theory is that you want to concentrate efforts on areas that employees think are most important. You may be “scoring high,” but on something that your people don’t care about.)
Because the survey is so simple, it takes an employee less than 15 minutes to do it, using the most basic of Internet connections. (For those without Internet access, you can print out the survey and have the answers keyed in, although safeguards would be needed to ensure anonymity.)
Done annually, it gives us year-over-year metrics. But it’s always had a major gap … the lack of external benchmarks.
You’re invited to participate
What I did in my earlier column, to provide that benchmark for our use and yours, was invite you to participate. I asked if you’d let us administer the survey to your employees and send you a custom-written report of the results.
Hundreds of you were interested, and we have decided to go ahead with the project. It’s now called the “National Employee Attitude Survey” or, more simply, NEAS.
How will it work?
You simply sign up here and give us some company information, after which we will send you a link to the survey questionnaire, which you will forward to your employees. That’s all you have to do. They then go online and fill the form out, and it comes straight back to us. We’ll do all the rest, and the next thing you’ll see is your report.
Results kept absolutely confidential
One major concern in your response was the need for adequate security to ensure privacy, both personal and organizational. We totally agree, and can point to our 25-year track record with compensation surveys as evidence of our ability to keep confidential materials secure. We’ve been collecting and reporting on very sensitive information for a quarter of a century, and never once has anyone revealed any private information.
The same controls will be in place with this survey. We will reveal company-specific data only to the employer involved, and we will ensure that specific employees cannot be identified in the reports.
So, with all that said, I hope you’ll participate. The deadline for first wave sign-up is Friday, April 20. And if you have any questions, e-mail our survey team at KCallahan@blr.com or call them at 800-727-5257, ext. 2454. You can see the survey questions at the sign-up page.
Join us in the BLR/HR Daily Advisor National Employee Attitude Survey. It will cost you nothing and it’s going to help build a better workforce for us all!
Sign up here now.