Workplace attitude: How to assess?

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Workplace attitude is as important as skills for productivity. Employers can assess attitudes through surveys, performance reviews, and informal assessments. To determine attitude, identify the aspect to be assessed, look for existing instruments, and prepare employees before administering a survey.

A person’s attitude is their way of thinking and underlying assumptions. Workplace attitude is a productivity factor, as are skills. In fact, at least one survey has shown that most organizations rate workplace attitude as being of greater concern than skills and competencies. For an employer, keeping an eye on attitudes in the workplace – before and after hiring – can help with decisions about choices to be made in terms of benefits, compensation and other workplace resources to help the company be more productive and not having that. information makes it difficult to align decisions with employee preferences. There are several methods available to assess attitude in the workplace.

The standard way of assessing workplace attitude is to use a survey instrument, and it is important to know that while some surveys are concerned with workplace attitude in general, a survey may be specially designed to address a specific question. related to employee attitudes. Tracking employee attitudes over time is the best way to get a sense of the interaction between employment circumstances and attitude. It is also important that searches evolve as the organization evolves. Another approach is to use existing data in the company’s human resources files, including performance reviews, perhaps in conjunction with a survey. Informal attitude assessment also helps to get a complete picture of employee attitudes.

To determine the attitude in your workplace, follow these steps. First, determine what aspect of the employee’s attitude you want to know about, for example, the response to a change in the phone system, whether it would be significantly beneficial to add another personal day, or the overall, general attitude towards management. Second, look at the information on existing attitude instruments and ask your human resources team for recommendations. Third, look for an existing instrument, hire a consultant to build it, or talk to the human resources department about developing an in-house tool.

Finally, prepare your employees before administering a survey for the first time. Let employees know what benefits or positive outcomes you hope to gain from this additional task. Make arrangements so that information gathering does not interfere with work or unnecessarily burden them.

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