Samples & examples for employee surveys
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Employee surveys play a crucial role in increasing employee engagement, improving job satisfaction and ultimately boosting company performance and productivity.
Through these surveys, companies can gain a deeper insight into the needs, concerns and opinions of their employees and respond accordingly.
The topics that can be addressed in employee surveys are diverse and can vary depending on the specific needs and goals of the organization.
This includes areas such as:
- Job satisfaction
- Leadership and management
- Workload and stress
- Development and career communication
- Working conditions and environment
- Diversity and inclusion
Values and company goals By specifically addressing these topics, companies can better understand the needs of their employees and drive positive change
Discover various survey templates below that contain suitable questions for the survey topics. Use our examples and adopt the complete template for your employee survey.
- Template: Employee motivation
- Template: Employee satisfaction
- Template: Pulse check
- Template: Internal communication
- Template: Company culture
- Template: Sample questionnaire for employee surveys
Employee motivation
Motivated employees make a significant contribution to your company’s success. But what happens when employees are not motivated? The work performance decreases. Demotivation is transferred to other employees. This leads to absenteeism due to illness and even to dismissal.
Content:
• Recognizing the current state
• Find out what really motivates your staff members
• Measuring employee motivation
• Finding opportunities for improvement
• Identification with the employer
Goals:
• Improve staff motivation
• Intensify employee loyalty
• Perceive employee wishes and needs
• Reduce fluctuation
• Avoid disruption of processes
• Reduce costs
• More stability in the company
Employee satisfaction
High employee satisfaction is a competitive advantage of innovative companies. Satisfied and motivated employees are more creative and innovative. Employee satisfaction, creates space for ideas and promotes the future development of the company.
Content:
• Surveys on general employee satisfaction
• Identifying opportunities and providing targeted training
• Transparency of internal communication
• Assessment of management and supervisors
• Demographic data on length of service
Goals:
• Increase employee satisfaction and employee motivation
• Identifying weaknesses in communication
• Strengthening team spirit
• Innovation through better collaboration
• Strengthen attractiveness for the talents of the future
Pulse check
Simple, brief feedback gives you continuous insight into the workload of your employees. Recognize whether the workload is high or too high.
Content:
• General well-being and satisfaction
• Emotional workload
• Workload and time management
• Recognizing emerging overload
Goals:
• Simple, brief feedback on day-to-day work life
• Observing the workload
• Observation of satisfaction in projects
• Connections between project status and workloads
Internal communication
How does the information find its way into your company? Is internal communication targeted and efficient? Are all recipients consistently involved in the flow of information? Internal communication can be a decisive factor for the success of a company.
Content:
• Query on departmental affiliation
• Information flow from management & supervisors to employees
• Review formal communication channels
• Identify informal communication in hallway conversations
Goals:
• Improve internal communication by identifying weaknesses
• Strengthening team spirit
• Integration of employees in decision-making processes
• Constructive communication instead of rumor mongering
• Efficient flow of information
Company culture
Success and corporate culture go hand in hand. Many companies have recognized this and have given corporate culture an increasingly important role.
Content:
• Asking for willingness to recommend
• Job satisfaction questions
• Feedback on corporate tasks
• Evaluation of internal communication
• Feedback on superiors
• Feedback on work atmosphere
• Questions about working conditions
• Questions about work-life balance
• Question on willingness to recommend the company as an employer
Goals:
• Measure current status
• Discover optimization potential
• Retain employees in the long term
• Increase motivation
• Increase job satisfaction
Below we present a sample questionnaire for a possible employee survey. This serves as a source of inspiration for how an employee survey can be designed.
1. Welcome page:
Dear employees,
We are pleased to invite you to participate in our employee survey on satisfaction and possible improvements.
This survey aims to get valuable feedback from you in order to continuously improve our working environment and ensure that you feel comfortable and supported in your working environment.
Please note that all your responses will be treated anonymously and no conclusions can be drawn about you personally.
Thank you in advance for your participation in this survey.
Yours sincerely, The HR team
2. Questionnaire:
1. How satisfied are you overall with your current work situation?
a) Very satisfied
b) Satisfied
c) Neutral
d) Dissatisfied
e) Very dissatisfied
2. What do you particularly like about your job?
(open question)
3. What could be improved to increase your satisfaction at work?
(open question)
4. On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely is it that you would recommend our company as an employer? (eNPS scale)
a) 0-6: Unlikely
b) 7-8: Neutral
c) 9-10: Very likely
5) How well do you feel supported by your line manager?
a) Very good
b) Good
c) Average
d) Poor
e) Very poor
6) How well do you feel supported by your colleagues?
a) Very good
b) Good
c) Average
d) Poor
e) Very poor
7) How satisfied are you with the training opportunities in our company?
a) Very satisfied
b) Satisfied
c) Neutral
d) Dissatisfied
e) Very dissatisfied
3. Final page:
Thank you for taking the time to participate in our survey.
Your opinion is extremely valuable to us and will help us
make our company even better.
We will carefully analyze the results and take appropriate measures to further improve employee satisfaction.
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