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I have a project of creating a questionnaire for new hire review kind of doing a follow up on how employees feel after 30, 60 or 90 days of hire. Would you consider using scaled method, open questions
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New Hire Review
posted at 2/8/2006 6:44 AM EST
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I have a project of creating a questionnaire for new hire review kind of doing a follow up on how employees feel after 30, 60 or 90 days of hire. Would you consider using scaled method, open questions or combine both? This would provide data for further analysis on how to improve management. Please give me your ideas.
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New Hire Review
posted at 2/8/2006 8:22 AM EST
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If your organization regularly conducts an employee opinion survey I would pilfer questions from that instrument and/or use the same rating scale.
Consider the volume of data you'd be collecting. If your company hires 100 people a month then you should limit the number of open-ended questions, else you'll be doing nothing but compiling responses. If you hire only a handful then consider one-on-one interviews. |
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New Hire Review
posted at 2/9/2006 3:53 PM EST
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Thank you cynbrandt. That' a good idea to think about the number of hires. My biggest challenge though was to know which method can provide us with valid info. My idea is that sometime rating scale limits EE's ideas; it does not allow them to express their thoughts in their own words. Any ideas please advise. Thank you again.
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New Hire Review
posted at 2/10/2006 4:59 AM EST
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First: 2/9/2006 Last: 4/28/2006 |
"New hire review" -- Nice!
Based on my experience with surveys, it really doesn't matter how many employees you wish to evaluate when you use a web, email or intranet based survey. Just send a email out with the survey or web link and sit back. If you have a high hire rate and plan to use a paper based survey, try sampling your new hire population. I would first identify the core areas you wish to evaluate (e.g., work environment, culture, leadership, co-workers, difficulty with work, pace of work, etc.). Then write questions for each content area. In this type of situation, expectation scales work well (e.g., did the culture meet your expectations?, manager meet your expectations?, co-worker cooperation meet your expectations?, is the work too demanding?, is the pace of work more than you expected?, etc.). Best practice scaling methods would argue for a 5-7 point scale with descriptive anchors. For more info: wwilliams1212@hotmail.com |
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