This spotlight looks at aspects most important to HR professionals’ job satisfaction in 2011. It also examined level of satisfaction with conditions of engagement and aspects they find most important to job satisfaction.
According to the SHRM 2011 Employee Job Satisfaction Survey Report, employee job satisfaction reached its peak in 2009 and has been dropping slightly each year.
When employee attitude surveys generate less-than-ideal results, leaders need to “accept the reality of that data” and share the results widely with employees at all levels of the organization.
Engaged employees are more likely than their disengaged counterparts to participate enthusiastically and productively in work-related activities that further their company’s interests.
To be sure employee attitude surveys meet their goal of fine-tuning the overall workplace—and individual employees—companies must take the surveys seriously and follow up on what survey-takers convey.
