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Employee attitude survey questions

Use this sample of employee attitude survey questions to understand your employees’ attitude towards their jobs and your company. Employee attitude survey questions are essential for improving your company’s performance, satisfaction and employee retention rate.

survey questions to test employee attitude

How to implement employee attitude surveys?

Employee attitude surveys are highly effective when it comes to taking the temperature of the labor force. These surveys are usually done anonymouslyin bigger groups as this helps employees to stay honest.

These types of surveys are extremely important because they help to identifycurrent problems and issues, they help assess your company’s policies and procedures and theyhelp to boost employeemorale.

Employee attitude surveys should be done on a semi-annual or, at least, annual, basis.

Sample of employee attitude survey questions

Here is a sample of common employee attitude survey questions. We have listed 2 types of survey questions: 5-answer Likert scale and open survey questions.

5-answer Likert scale employee attitude survey questions

From scale 1-5 (5= strongly agree, 1=strongly disagree), to what extent do you agree with these statements?

  • I have asked for an education or training that would help me do my job better
  • Every time when I ask for training, I get it
  • I have all the tools that I need to do my job successfully
  • I always get constructive feedback about my work
  • I always know whenchanges, that affect my job, are conducted
  • I thinkmy work is appreciated
  • I think I get the right amount of money and benefits for the work I do
  • I think [company name], cares about me as an employee

Open survey questions for employee attitude

  • What are the best 3 things about being [company name]’s employee
  • What are the 3 things you would like to change about[company name]
  • Are you a happy employee? Why?

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