Employee Survey

Description of process

The employee survey process can be used in companies to carry out internal surveys among the employees of a company or group of companies. Employee survey is one process of collecting information from employees by posting questions in a survey and allowing individual employees to answer the questions. You can define a survey based on the information you want to collect, on any necessary subject, by defining the questions appropriately. You can also select the employees that you want to collect information from, by defining the participant list.

Defining and Distributing a Survey

When you create an employee survey, you can specify all the questions that should be posted, the order in which they should be posted, the nature of the questions and the dependencies that may exist between questions. If you want, answers can be predefined and linked to the question, allowing the participants to select the most appropriate answer. Such answers are defined in the Answer Options window. When you define answers you can also create scales.
Eg. Employees must answer the question by selecting an appropriate value on a scale of 1 to 10. For some question you can restrict the possible answers to either Yes or No.

The participant list for the survey should also be defined before the survey can be published. The process of selecting the participants allows you to select all employees belonging to a specific organization unit, or assigned to a specific position in an organization. If you want individual employees in the selected group excluded from the survey, you can individually remove them from the list. When the survey is published, it will be open for the participant employees to answer. When the survey is in state Published, an email is automatically sent to all the participants in the participant list informing them that the survey is available online. The link to access the survey online is also included in the email.

Answering and Analyzing a Survey

Participants can directly access the survey by clicking on the link provided in the email. Each question will be answered on a separate web page and only one question can be answered at a time.

If an employee has multiple employments in one company or in separate companies, they will be allowed to answer the survey more than once, using the different employment identities assigned to them. You have the option of blocking this possibility when you define the survey, by specifying that employees can only answer the survey using their master employment.

When employees complete answering all the questions in the survey, the answers given by each participant can be analyzed in the Survey Answers window. You can also analyze answers to questions per survey in the Survey/Answer Analysis tab.