The human resources department is usually responsible for hiring skillful employees and making sure their commitment to the company remains for a long time. With job satisfaction surveys, HR can measure employees' satisfaction in various key areas. Most commonly, satisfaction is measure in the following areas:
- Employee compensation
- Health benefits
- Having adequate resources to work effectively
- Retirement benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth
- Communication with management and other staff members
Job satisfaction surveys can help an organization measure loyalty to the company, areas to improve, and hear from employees recommendations on how the workplace can become a better place for them. Many employers also use these surveys to test new initiatives implementing different rewards for good performance and changing the employee handbook.
When conducting a job satisfaction survey ensure the following issues are thought about and addressed by the questionnaire designers:
- Communicate the fact that the responses are confidential.
- Focus only on questions related likes and dislikes, challenges employees face, and workplace recommendations.
- Make the employee satisfaction questionnaire mandatory to avoid response bias.
Mineful has a wide variety of human resources survey templates you can build and edit upon when you sign up to a free account. This one is an job satisfaction survey that can help your identify key areas that can improve employee loyalty.
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