Survey for Employees

As I, Paul, conducted a survey for employees to take, I have noticed some areas of needs improvement. The areas of improvement will increase employee morale, safety, employee retention, and employee satisfaction. I have arranged the employees' results based on least to most expensive in which Utiliscan should work to improve and make the appropriate accommodations.

Based on the survey results, 78% of employees said they were satisfied with their working conditions and they enjoyed their freedom and flexibility to perform their jobs without strict supervision. I am glad to see employees are still motivated to perform well and not because their supervisor has them under the radar. Managers should manage and develop their employees' skill level well enough to know they will always perform their job duties without being micromanaged. Employees do not want to feel their manager is always hovering over them to make sure work is completed. For the 22% of employees who feel the opposite, I would look into why employees are not satisfied with their working conditions. I would create a job design for each position so employees will know exactly what is expected from them at all times. If employees know what is expected as their job duties and what their manager expects from them, employees are likely to perform better. It is important each employee knows their job design because it can influence performance, job satisfaction, and both mental and physical health.

By developing an adequate job design, employees will be able to maintain their duties with effective time management. Time management will reduce the workloads for all employees especially the 30% that felt their workload was too heavy or too light. Once HR has a clear description what each position duties entails, HR will be able to accurately distribute work. This will create equilibrium for all employees, which minimizes stress levels from rising. HR can perform a job analysis in which will gather and analyze information about the content, context, and human requirements of jobs. Job analysis is useful in identifying job factors and duties that may contribute to workplace health/safety and employee/labor relation issues.

During my analysis of the survey, I noticed 87% of employees felt there were no promotions opportunities available. We are a small company that has been successful in growing 15%-20% and in hopes to continue to grow. As we expand our company, jobs will be created which will allow for more opportunities for employees to be promoted. We are a small company and employees have to understand it takes time and every employee will not have the opportunity to be promoted as often as they would like. I looked at it from the position of "why spend money when we do not have to?" As we expand, we will spend money to promote and train employees for new positions. Growth equals new opportunities.

In order for employees to grow and be successful in their current positions in order to move forward, they need to understand what they are excellent at and what areas can be improved upon. We as managers and HR staff need to make sure we are in compliance with performance evaluations. Performance reviews are mandatory and need to be performed on a yearly basis and correctly noted in each employees file. We can also implement a process where the employee evaluates himself or herself along with the manager's evaluations so employees will have an opportunity to say what they think they are good at and where they need help with. This double process will also be beneficial for managers so they can provide training the employee wants and needs. Generally, a performance evaluation will determine an employees pay raise amount. We can analyze the budget to determine