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Business Definition for: Employee Attitude Survey

  • a systematic investigation of the views and opinions of those employed by an organization on issues relating to the work of that organization or their role within it. Employee attitude surveys may be conducted by means of questionnaires or interviews. They may be undertaken occasionally or at regular intervals and may be used to make a general assessment of employee morale or focus on a specific issue such as the introduction of a new policy. Goals may be to identify or gain an understanding of problems so that action to resolve them can be taken, to encourage employee involvement and commitment, or to assist in planning, implementing, and evaluating new initiatives.

Additional Resources

What Is An Employee Attitude Survey?
Often an essential component of organizational training and development, Employee Attitude surveys provide a picture of your organization's needs. These surveys can be used to solicit employee opinions on a variety of issues such as the company's success in communicating its mission to employees, or local issues such as quality...
Tags: Marketing Research, Survey, Human Resources, Marketing
White papers 2003-01-01
Constructive change comes from within: how one association reorganized and improved performance by involving its staff.(Special Libraries Association)(Brief Article)
WHEN MICHELLE SHANDS DECIDED HER ASSOCIATION MIGHT BENEFIT FROM AN EMPLOYEE attitude survey, she had no idea what changes were in store. WHEN MICHELLE SHANDS DECIDED HER ASSOCIATION MIGHT BENEFIT FROM AN EMPLOYEE attitude survey, she had no idea what changes were in store.
Tags: performance, Special Libraries Association
Research articles 2002-09-01
Clear Picture Corp - offers product to analyze employee attitudes - Brief Article
Clear Picture Corp. has developed and released the Apollo Reporting Tool, an automated system that provides customized reports on a company's most recent employee attitude survey. The new reporting tool is designed to reduce the time to generate reports and analyze data from employee surveys. The Apollo tool is part...
Tags: Apollo, Clear
Research articles 2001-08-01
Employee Communication Survey Design
Obtain valuable employee feedback with employee communication surveys from Infosurv. The authors begin the process by designing a customized employee communication survey for the organization, or taking the existing survey and preparing it to be administered via the Internet, telephone, fax, or paper. Infosurv offers questionnaire design consultation services standard...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey, Employee Communication
White papers
Pfizer Japan Announces Results of Attitude Survey on Oral Health
Tokyo, May 30, 2006 - JCN - Pfizer Japan conducted an attitude survey on oral health of 103 dentists, 103 dental hygienists, and 108 people from the general public via the Internet on May 11 and 12.
Tags: Pfizer Inc., survey
Research articles 2006-05-30
Fast-tracking the survey process - Dana Corp.'s employee surveys
A simple but thorough electronically distributed survey provides the feedback management needs to improve programs and employee satisfaction.
Tags: Dana Corp., survey
Research articles 1995-12-01
Omron Healthcare Conducts Attitude Survey on Metabolic Syndrome and
Tokyo, Jan 26, 2006 - JCN - Omron Healthcare announced on January 25 the results of its attitude survey on metabolic syndrome and visceral fat. Metabolic syndrome is a group of risk factors including obesity, hypertension, high lipids and high blood sugar.
Tags: health care, Omron Corp., survey
Research articles 2006-01-26
Commendation On Good Suggestion
Want to commend your employee for providing excellent suggestion? Then use this template to appreciate your employee's enthusiastic attitude.
Tags: Employee, SHBBL
Tools & templates 2007-12-01
Employer Perceptions about Job Satisfaction Factors Do Not Match Employee Reality; Salary.com Survey Reveals Disconnects Between Employers' Perceptions of Employee Job Satisfaction Factors and Why Employees Stay or Leave a Job
NEEDHAM, Mass. -- Salary.com, the compensation solutions experts, today released results from the 2005/2006 Employee Satisfaction and Retention Survey. The survey revealed surprising disparities between what employees value and what human resource HR professionals perceive to be important to overall employee job satisfaction and willingness to stay in or leave...
Tags: job, Salary.com, survey
Research articles 2006-01-30
The Impact of Cultural Values on Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Self-Managing Work Teams: The Mediating Role of Employee Resistance
Using a field survey of 461 self-managing work team SMWT members in four countries, the paper examines: whether employee resistance to SMWTs mediated the relationships between employee cultural values and job attitudes; and the strength of mediation in each country. Results show that resistance mediated the cultural value-job attitude relationships,...
Tags: University Of North Carolina, Team, Job, Human Resources, Management, Recruitment & Selection, Team Management, Workforce Management
White papers 2001-01-15
How To Handle Poor Employee Performance
An employee who demonstrates issues with attitude, productivity, attendance or other areas is sometimes easy to ignore. This is especially true if others cover and/or pitch in to ensure that the work gets done. It is much easier to reward those hard workers than it is to address the one...
Tags: Employee, Performance, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-12-01
Referral Programs Cheapest Way to Find Talent: Survey
Each salaried employee hired through an employee-recruitment program costs an organization about $900 in incentives and rewards, while each worker paid hourly costs about $400, according to the survey by the Society for Human Resource Management SHRM and Referral Networks, a company that manages and hosts online employee-referral programs for...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey, CFO Publishing Corp., Talent
White papers 2001-06-26
Planning And Analyzing Employee Surveys
From the executive summary: 'Across the nation, organizations spend innumerable hours asking employees for their opinions. Despite this effort, many companies do not receive all the benefits they could. Organizations often do not know the decisions they should make before handing out a survey.' The management must do a self-analysis...
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Research, Survey
White papers
New Employee Orientation Program
New employee orientation programs are designed to assist new employees in adjusting to their jobs and work environment and to instill a positive work attitude and motivation.
Tags: Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, U.S. Department Of Interior, Recruitment & Selection, Leadership
White papers 1998-11-18
As easy as 123 - Lotus Development Corp.'s electronic employee survey
When Lotus Development Corporation conducted its first worldwide employee survey in four years, it planned and executed the exercise wholly electronically. Not surprising, you might say, given that the company -- originally best known for its 1-2-3 spreadsheet product -- is in the computer industry and has been one of...
Tags: company, employee survey, survey
Research articles 1994-11-01
Consumer Attitude Towards Brand Extensions: An Integrative Model and Research Propositions
The paper proposes an integrative model of the antecedents and consequences of brand extension attitude based on the dominant cognitive paradigm. The four key processes of the model are: the perception of fit, the formation of primary attitudes towards the extension, the link between extension attitude and marketplace behavior and...
Tags: Attitude, Brand, Branding, Marketing
White papers 2002-09-19
Does Employee Attitude Affect the Bottom Line
The case study reveals that smiling staffers can improve financial performance; professionals continue to worry about job security; knowledgeable 401k participants are more satisfied with the investments and more percent can improve financial performance by more than 42%. In a recent survey, employers asked employees how well they thought...
Tags: Case Study, Financial Performance, Financial, Retirement Plans, Benefits, Human Resources, Finance, 401(k), Financial Accounting
Case studies 2003-01-01
Employee Performance Appraisal Process: Honesty Is The Best Policy
Let's face it. Nobody likes to be the bearer of bad news. Sometimes, it can be especially difficult to inform an employee that his work is not up to par, or that she has an attitude or attendance problem that is seriously affecting her future with the company. Often, managers...
Tags: Employee, Performance, Blue Boulder Internet Publishing, Performance Management, Performance Appraisal, Team Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management
White papers 2008-01-01
Employers hold back on captive benefit funding. (captive insurance companies; employee benefits)
Parent companies, stung by last year's U.S. Department of Labor ruling against CSX, are apparently taking a wait-and-see attitude before channeling employee benefits through their captives, according to experts interviewed by the National Underwriter. Parent companies, stung by last year's U.S. Department of Labor ruling against...
Tags: benefit, CSX, employee benefit, U.S. Department of Labor
Research articles 1995-03-20
Corporate Credibility and Employee Communications Survey
This paper talks about a corporate credibility and employee communications survey. HR professionals are typically the primary line of communication between top management and employees. Often, organizational communication is voiced through HR. At a time when organizational ethics are questioned daily, HR professionals need to be aware of how employees...
Tags: Credibility, HR Professional, Survey, Marketing Research, Marketing
White papers 2002-08-01
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