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Solutions to Traditional Employee Reviews

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What are some alternative solutions to traditional employee reviews?

employee-review-online-surveyIn yesterday’s blog post, Are Traditional Employee Reviews Still Beneficial?, we discussed the issues facing traditional employee reviews. Today, we discuss alternative solutions that organizations can carry out in their employee review process.

The process of traditional employee reviews has many organizations questioning their current review processes. The traditional employee review process is proving to be outdated and filled with inefficiencies. Those inefficiencies include:

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Are Traditional Employee Reviews Still Beneficial? What’s Your Opinion?

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How useful are traditional employee reviews in your organization?

employee-reviewsMany organizations rely on annual or semi-annual employee reviews to evaluate employee performance.The traditional employee review consists of a manager (or supervisor) who complete a series of evaluation questions to rate an employee’s performance. Additionally, often times the employee is asked to complete a self-assessment of their own performance. Once the manager reviews the two evaluations, the two parties meet face-to-face to discuss results and elaborate more on performance.

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Low Employee Morale Can Impact Organizational Goals

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Low Employee Morale Can Impact Organizational Goals

low-employee-morale-employee-satisfactionEmployee morale is a key element of any company’s culture, and should be closely monitored with employee satisfaction surveys. Workplace morale refers to the attitudes and opinions employees have about their jobs, and is crucial to an organization’s success.Low employee morale can hinder a business from achieving organization-wide goals, and it can also lead to low productivity, increased employee turnover, and loss of profitability. There are several low employee morale signs to be aware of. Any one of these signs can be a direct indicator that employee morale is low and needs work.

When is the Best Time to Survey New Employees?

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When is the best time to survey new employees? The answer may surprise you.  

employee-screening-pre-employmentYou may think that you need to give employees at least a few months to get acclimated to their new position, job environment, and get a feel for office dynamics within your company. However, there is no better time to survey new employees than from the very beginning. Or better yet, survey potential hires during the hiring process with a pre-employment survey.

It may seem odd to survey interviewees during the hiring process, but from the start, it is important for your business to:

  1. Show potential employees that your company cares about the continued success of the business and its employees, and
  2. Gauge how a potential new hire will react to your company’s work environment and how they will adapt to the work culture.

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Keep Your Employee Surveys Anonymous

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Ensure Anonymity in Your Employee Surveys

employee-surveysEmployee surveys can provide invaluable information to any organization and be an effective performance management tool. Uncovering your employees’ opinions and views will allow your organization to take action that will improve employee retention, increase productivity, and provide a benchmark to measure improvement.

The success of your organization depends on the quality of your employees. Many organizations have either prospered or declined solely based on the quality of their workforce. Employees that are pleased with their employment are typically more productive, and therefore work harder and generate a profit for your organization.  Discontent employees, however, have the opposite effect, which can hurt your organization’s overall profit.

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Do Not Lead Respondents Toward Survey Answers

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Do not lead your respondents toward specific survey answers

leading-survey-questionsWhen developing survey questions, be sure not to inadvertently lead respondents to answer a question in a particular way or in favor of a particular option. It is important to give respondents all available response options, however, the question and it’s options should not be worded in a way that influences a respondents’ answers.

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Are You Using Survey Software to Develop Employee Surveys?

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Using survey software is the best way to develop employee surveys

employee-satisfaction -surveysEmployee surveys are a great way to solicit employee feedback from employees on a wide range of workplace issues. Using survey software to design and administer, employee surveys can include a number of areas across the business and can be broken down into individual types of employee surveys.

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8 Tips for Administering Employee Surveys

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Learn About the Types of Employee Surveys and Tips for Administration

employee-loyalty-employee-satisfactionWhen designed and administered correctly, employee surveys can be used by any business or organization to solicit invaluable, constructive feedback, and can function as an effective employee performance management tool. Organizations can use employee feedback – such as comments, opinions, behaviors, and suggestions – to create important strategies to help improve employee retention, increase productivity, create a cohesive work environment, as well as provide a benchmark to measure continued improvement.

Types of Employee Surveys

Employee Satisfaction Surveys data is used to increase productivity, job satisfaction, and loyalty. Employee satisfaction surveys identify the root causes of employee satisfaction and target those areas.

Employee Attitude Surveys identify the root causes of workplace attitudes, providing a way to improve employee productivity and commitment to work. Continue reading →

Introducing Kinitro Employee Engagement Survey

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Available to UK customers, we’d like to introduce Kinitro Employee Engagement Survey

Kinitro is a new ready-to-run employee engagement survey product designed by organization development and research experts Burton Organization Development in association with Snap Surveys. kinitro-employee-engagement-surveyThis new survey product has been designed to measure your employees’ engagement – but it goes much further. As well as getting employees’ views on a range of topics – their job, the company, their manager, relationships, key policies and communications – the Kinitro Employee Engagement Survey explores what is most important to employees and encourages them to suggest their own ideas.

Simply, the Kinitro Employee Engagement Survey collects information about how well your company is managing employees, and gives your employees the proper channel to express ideas and to help them do their jobs better. The more “engaged” your employees are, the more successful your organization is likely to be. Continue reading →

How Effective Are Traditional Employee Reviews?

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How useful are traditional employee reviews in the workplace?

Many businesses rely on annual or semi-annual employee reviews to evaluate employee performance. employee-reviewThe traditional employee review consists of a manager or supervisor(s) who complete a series of evaluation questions to rate the employee’s performance, and often times the employee is asked to complete a self-assessment of their own performance. Once the manager or supervisor(s) reviews the two evaluations, the two parties meet face-to-face to discuss results and elaborate more on performance.

This type of evaluation has been recently scrutinized, and many businesses are questioning whether they should continue with the same process, or find an employee review process that makes more sense. Many find the traditional employee review process to be outdated and filled with inefficiencies. And as with many business processes, there comes a time when changes may need to be made.

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