By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady
BLR’s founder announces the 2008 edition of 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. But we’d like you to join us by February 29, so please read now.
Last year, I made Advisor readers an offer I knew they couldn’t refuse.
I announced the creation of the National Employee Attitude Survey (NEAS) program. We had taken the survey process we’d used for 10 years here at BLR to find out what employees thought of our company, their jobs, and yes, their management. And we arranged a way for you to offer it to your workers, at no cost to you, and with us doing virtually all the work.
Well, I was right. Your response was amazing.
More than 1,400 companies accepted my offer, and nearly 25,000 of their workers answered the simple, 15-minute questionnaire. Every employer completing the process got a free confidential report of their results, and we got to report, on a national basis, big gaps in key aspects of the American workplace, especially in interdepartmental communication and teamwork. You can read a report on the 2007 survey results here.
For full information or to request this no-cost service at your organization, go to the employee survey .
Well, now we’re doing it all over again, and this time, we hope to serve several thousand more companies, including yours.
Why take the survey?
Well, if you took it last year, you’ll be able to compare results and see where you’ve improved and where you may still need work. And if you’re taking it for the first time, you’ll get, perhaps for the first time, a look at how workers would improve your business. (Some of the best ideas come just that way.) Plus, you’ll have a baseline to compare to succeeding years’ surveys.
Process Now One-Step Simple
Also, if you took the NEAS last year, you’ll see where we’ve improved. We listened to your feedback and made the process one-step simple. Just sign upat the employee survey, and you instantly receive the survey materials you need. No more waiting for a separate e-mail.
But, of course, we also kept the things you liked.
You still just e-mail your workers the questionnaire (or distribute printed copies if workers have no Internet access), and your part is done! Workers return their answers directly to us, we do all the tabulation, and the next thing you see is a confidential report.
As before, the survey focuses on communication, supervision, teamwork, and perceptions of career opportunity. And it provides employers with simple, direct answers that, over the years, have helped us see things we wouldn’t have otherwise, and aided us in improving in many ways.
Equally important, because of how the questions are structured, the NEAS tells you what your workers find most important, so you don’t spin your wheels on something they could care less about while not addressing their real concerns. You’d be surprised how often that happens.
And because you can compare your results with those of other, similar companies (confidentially, of course), you can see if what you’re dealing with is specific to your organization, or would require a more widespread response.
For full information or to request this no-cost survey at your organization, go to the employee survey.
Confidentiality Assured
As we noted last year, we fully understand your concern that there be adequate security to ensure your privacy, both personal and organizational. To this end, we 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 sensitive business 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 year’s 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, that said, I look forward to your participation. The deadline for sign-up is Friday, February 22. And if you have any questions, e-mail our survey team at NEAS@blr.com, or call them at 800-727-5257, ext. 2301.
Join us in the National Employee Attitude Survey. It will cost you nothing, and it’s going to help build a better workforce for us all!
For full information (including viewing the questionnaire) or to sign up, go to the employee survey start page now.
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