| There was one movie where a teacher gave all of | | | | salary by a competitor? |
| her students an initial grade of A. When asked why | | | | 2. You can get a feedback about work-related issues. |
| she did that, she said that it is harder to maintain this | | | | When distributing human resources surveys, be as |
| high grade rather than starting from scratch and | | | | direct and specific as possible. Ask you employees |
| earning it. | | | | what they think of the food in the pantry. |
| The same principle can be applied in the corporate | | | | Are their earning enough money? Do they feel as if |
| world. It is easy enough to hire new employees rather | | | | their requests regarding employee benefits are being |
| than keeping them satisfied in the workplace and | | | | processed on time? How do they feel about their |
| making them stay on their current jobs. | | | | immediate superiors? |
| Take a look at these quick facts: | | | | What do they think of the existing office rules and |
| - Companies find it ten times more costly and | | | | company regulations? How do they rate the overall |
| time-consuming to hire and train a new employee | | | | operations of the company from a scale of one to ten, |
| rather than keeping an existing employee. | | | | ten being the highest? |
| - An employee who leaves a company does not | | | | By asking such important questions, your employees |
| usually voice out his or her exact reason for leaving. | | | | will feel that you care enough to ask them about what |
| Although the most common causes are dissatisfaction | | | | they think and send a message that you are going to |
| with the salary, co-workers or the work environment, | | | | do something about the matters that they find |
| there are real reasons behind the supposed reasons | | | | dissatisfactory. |
| why employees leave their jobs. | | | | 3. You can figure out potential problems. |
| - Most companies fail to hear out the concerns of their | | | | From the feedback and results of the human |
| employees when it comes to compensation and other | | | | resources surveys, you can point out potential problem |
| work-related concerns. | | | | areas about the general operations of your company. |
| Basically, the thrust of these facts is that it is more | | | | If there are a lot of complaints and negative feedback |
| difficult and time consuming to hire new employees | | | | about the slowness of the processing of employee |
| rather than keep the new ones, so why not just keep | | | | benefits, you can take action and see to it that the |
| your existing personnel satisfied and not give them any | | | | process is improved. |
| reason to leave their jobs? | | | | You can further work on the perks and benefits that |
| One of the most effective ways to know your | | | | your employees find satisfactory. |
| employees are thinking is by distributing human | | | | All in all, human resources surveys are the key into the |
| resources surveys. Here are the advantages of | | | | minds of your employees. Your goal as a company is |
| human resource surveys: | | | | to provide the best products and services that you |
| 1. You would have an idea if your employees are | | | | can offer, while maintaining the satisfaction of your |
| satisfied with their current compensation. | | | | local personnel and turning your company into one of |
| The rule is, you will never know unless you ask. You | | | | the best places to work for. |
| might think that a clerk or your receptionist is earning | | | | By having a glimpse of your employee's minds, you |
| enough, but what if she thinks otherwise? | | | | would know what to do about their complaints and |
| Most employees feel that they are overworked and | | | | take measure to improve the things in your company |
| underpaid, and isn't it better to know beforehand what | | | | that they find lacking. Thus, you will have a satisfied |
| exactly they are thinking before they hand you a | | | | work force who will help your company climb its way |
| resignation letter because they were offered a higher | | | | to the top. |