Published by Skills for Justice

Date 16.03.23
Employee engagement surveys measure and analyse how motivated and engaged your staff are to do their job and stay with your organisation. This information is especially important at a time when public sector organisations are facing recruitment and retention challenges.
In this context, HR professionals and workforce development managers put employee engagement as a top priority, and use employee engagement surveys to help guide them in the right direction.
Getting the questions on your employee engagement survey right is an important step towards developing an engagement strategy.
The survey should touch on various elements, including leadership, career development, job satisfaction and alignment. Before you launch into your survey questions it is important to build a profile of each respondent by, for example, asking for their job type, line management responsibilities, department, length of service and location. This will enable you to analyse your employees’ answers with the context of their demographic and position within the business in mind.
If you are new to employee engagement surveys, below is a list of 20 key questions you should consider to help develop an employee survey of your own.
The questions you use on your employee engagement survey matter. Our team of workforce development experts has devised a list of essential questions everyone should consider including when developing their first employee engagement survey.
Don’t be left guessing about how to improve staff engagement. Let your staff tell you through our simple and easy to use tool, Ambit Surveys, and discover what your staff really think.
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