Category Archives: Surveys: Employee Benefits

Employee Survey Best Practices – 11 Lessons Learned

The current economic downturn has changed the world dramatically. It’s a new ball game for every organization. Now, more than any time in the past 60+ years, current feedback from employees and customers is essential for knowing where we are, where we need to be, and for planning our organizations’ futures. Conducting effective surveys provides information and insight for making informed decisions, driving positive change and significantly increasing profit and organizational sustainability. Continue reading

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A review of preferred work culture contributing to employee satisfaction in today’s organizations

The term culture by and large denotes the ideas, customs, and art of a particular society. While referring to work culture or organization culture one would particularly mean the customs, patterns, arts and beliefs followed in various organizations. Edgar Schein, one of the most prominent theorists of organizational culture, gave the following definition: The culture of a group can now be defined as a pattern of shared basic assumptions that the group learned as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration, that has worked well enough to be considered valid and therefore, to be taught to new members as the correct way to perceive, think, and feel in relation to those problems. Continue reading

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Importance of Online Benefits Enrollment

Open enrollment can be an exceptionally complex and involved process, consuming months of valuable time and taxing your resources to the breaking point. Open Enrollment is always a hectic time of year when employees have the opportunity to change their benefit plan. Continue reading

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Survey: Employers say health care reform will not control costs

While health care reform enters a cooling-off period, employers insist that reform must make cost-containment a central theme in order to lower health care costs, reports the National Business Group on Health and Towers Watson. Continue reading

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