Assess Your Workforce with Employee Engagement Surveys

In today’s competitive business landscape, understanding the pulse of your workforce is crucial for fostering a thriving organizational culture. Employee Engagement Surveys serve as an invaluable tool for employers to measure employee engagement levels, uncovering insights into staff commitment, enthusiasm, and motivation.

What are Employee Engagement Surveys?

Employee Engagement Surveys are questionnaires given to staff members to measure employee engagement levels and assess overall commitment, enthusiasm, and employee motivation towards their job and their company. These survey questions help gauge employee satisfaction and overall feelings towards the workplace, such as company culture and senior management.

These survey results give leadership actionable insights into staff morale and help them determine if employee sentiment is aligned with the company’s mission and organizational goals.

How do Employee Engagement Surveys Benefit Employers?

Studies show that when employees have an outlet for honest communication and the ability to share their opinions, morale, team performance, and productivity increase, and staff turnover

decreases. Employers gain valuable insights into the employee experience at the company and employee perceptions towards their jobs, work environment, and company culture.

Organizational leaders can also assess how their employees feel about certain prospects provided by the organization such as career development, long term career advancement, and whether the company cares about their career goals or if they feel as though they’re accomplishing meaningful work.

These engagement questions serve as pulse surveys as asking the right questions on an further help point out key areas of improvement for both the company and leadership, and provide a starting point to increase employee engagement.

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When Should You Consider Conducting a Survey?

  • When turnover is high and/or morale is low
  • When you want to assess areas of strength and/or weakness in workplace culture
  • When you want to improve your operations or service quality

What You Can Expect from this Exercise?

  • A comprehensive view of your workforce and its engagement and/or satisfaction
  • A comparison to national benchmarks in 10 categories to assess where you stand
  • Highlight opportunities to improve service, quality, and productivity
  • Recommendations for corrective or preventative actions

Employee Engagement Surveys are facilitated by NAE’s survey specialists—at your premises or online. Because the employee engagement survey is conducted by an objective third party, your employees can be assured confidentiality in their responses. NAE’s survey specialists compile the results and provide your company with a report and recommendations for corrective actions, if any.

What Gets Surveyed?

The Employee Engagement Survey consists of 62 survey statements in the following categories:

  1. Benefits → Employees are asked about their satisfaction with benefits, and whether or not they perceive them to be competitive with those offered by other organizations.
  2. Communication → Employees’ freedom to express their ideas, feelings, and opportunity they have to receive timely information measure the effectiveness of top-down communication.
  3. Employee Commitment → Employees are asked to assess their relationship with the overall organization and their commitment to the organization (i.e. how their work relates to the success of the organization, whether they would recommend the organization to others, and whether they intend to stay in the organization).
  4. Employee Development & Recognition → Employees assess their contentment in terms of advancement, promotions, and learning opportunities.
  5. Executive Leadership Effectiveness → Employee’s evaluate executive leadership’s reputation for integrity, fairness, openness, and concern for team members(i.e. employees’ belief in the organization’s willingness to make changes when issues are raised).
  6. Operational Effectiveness → Employees appraise the general efficiency of operations, internal systems, and senior managements’ efforts to work effectively.
  7. Organizational Practices → Employees evaluate the reasonableness and consistent enforcement of organizational policies.
  8. Pay → Employees assess the equity of pay—internal and external to the organization—and whether they perceive it to be competitive with pay offered by other organizations.
  9. Supervisory Management Effectiveness →Employees appraise their supervisor’s management skills, responsiveness to employee feedback, and ability to provide guidance, direction, training, and above all, leadership (i.e. how well the supervisor communicates, follows up on questions and suggestions, and gives staff the freedom to do their jobs).
  10. Work/Life Satisfaction → Employees are asked about their work schedule and workload, job satisfaction, and if they are able to balance work with their personal life.

Why Should You Turn to NAE for Assistance with Your Employee Engagement Survey

Employee Engagement Surveys are facilitated by NAE’s survey specialists—at your premises or online. The Nevada Association of Employers has several decades of experience conducting employee engagement surveys for Nevada businesses. You can rely on our survey specialists to provide you with an accurate assessment of your business.

Because the employee engagement survey is conducted by an objective third party, your employees can be assured confidentiality in their responses. NAE’s survey specialists compile the results and provide your company with a report and recommendations for corrective actions, if any. To learn more about Employee Engagement Surveys, please contact us at 888.398.8092 or surveys@nevadaemployers.org.