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

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

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.

Increase Employee Morale with Employee Satisfaction Surveys

Increase employee morale, productivity, and profitability with employee satisfaction surveys

employee-morale-employee-surveyAsk any good employer, and they will agree that the best asset of their company are their employees. Good employees are indispensable. They can set a company apart from competition, providing a competitive advantage.

In order to gain that competitive advantage, companies must acquire and retain talented, hard-working, dedicated employees who are experts in their field.  In order to retain those employees, companies need to satisfy employee needs at every level of the business. Maintaining a high level of employee satisfaction and morale is essential to the success of any organziation. Increased employee satisfaction and overall morale produces increased employee productivity, which produces increased profitability.

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Best of Survey Software Blog – Customer Surveys and Employee Surveys

Take a look back at some of the best customer survey and employee survey Snap Survey Software Blog topics throughout 2012 

We have highlighted some great topics in customer satisfaction, customer loyalty, customer service, employee satisfaction, employee loyalty, employee morale, and more…

Customer Surveys

Company Success Begins with Customer Satisfaction

Why Measure the Value of Customer Service?customer-service

Factors to Consider when Creating Customer Surveys

Measure Customer Satisfaction through Surveys

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Solutions to Traditional Employee Reviews

Issues facing traditional employee reviews in the workplace

employee_reviewsIn yesterday’s blog post, How Effective Are Traditional Employee Reviews?, we discussed the issues facing traditional employee reviews. Today, we discuss potential solutions that business can implement into their employee review plans.

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 The traditional employee review process is proving to be outdated and filled with inefficiencies.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

  • No effective way to evaluate and measure good and bad employee aptitude
    • Subjective review of employees, based on the opinions of 1 or 2 individuals
    • Subjective measurement of employee performance
  • Produces low employee morale
  • Generates low employee loyalty

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How Effective Are Traditional Employee Reviews?

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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How Low Employee Morale Can Impact Company Goals

As mentioned in yesterday’s blog post, Boost Company Morale with Employee Surveys, we discussed how employee morale is a key element of any company’s culture, and should be closely monitored with employee surveys.  low-employee-moraleWorkplace morale refers to the attitudes and opinions employees have about their jobs, and is crucial to a company’s success.

Low employee morale can hold back a business from reaching organization-wide goals, and it can also lead to low productivity, increased employee turnover, and loss of profitability. Continue reading

Webinar: Measure Employee Satisfaction with Staff Satisfaction Surveys

Key Objectives to Measure Employee Satisfaction with Staff Satisfaction Surveys

We invite you to join us on Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 for a free webinar - part of our free Snap Summer Camp 2012 webinar series running from June 14 – September 12, 2012.

Measuring Staff Satisfaction, Richard Lambert, MD Morale Solutions
Tuesday, July 10th, 2012
2:00 – 2:45 PM UK / 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM US EST

Snap Survey Software presents Richard Lambert, a human resources consultant with an impressive client list. Richard has worked in the employee research and human resources consulting markets for the past 12 years developing custom methodologies for organizations. Continue reading

Ensure Anonymity in Your Employee Surveys

Employee Satisfaction Survey with survey softwareWhen designed and administered properly, employee surveys can provide invaluable information to any organization, and act as an effective performance management tool. The benefits of uncovering your employees’ opinions and views, and taking action can help improve employee retention and increase productivity, as well as provide a benchmark to measure improvement.

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

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Need Some Ideas on Question Development and Online Survey Design?

Are you stumped for ideas on where to start with your online survey? Are you looking for some inspiration to create logical survey questions and eye-catching survey design ideas?  Take a look at some of our sample surveys

Customer Satisfaction Surveys

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