1. The Great Place to Work® Survey
Project presentation
English translation of the German terms: innovation, design, trust, benchmarking, workplace culture, location, purpose, employer attractiveness
Great Place to Work® Deutschland
2016/17

2. What is the survey about?
leadership
health
internal information
identification
workplace culture
appreciation
celebrations
pay
English translation of the German terms: health, leadership, internal information, identification, workplace culture, acknowledgement, celebrating, pay, dialogue, teamwork, development opportunities
dialogue
cooperation
opportunities for development

3. The Great Place to Work® Model
Defines the work of Great Place to Work® in over 40 countries
Developed on the basis of research
Content: all topics which are important for a company to be seen as a very good employer by its employees
Basis for the questionnaire used in the employee survey
The Great Place to Work® Model
Credibility – transparent communication, competent leadership, managers behave with integrity
Respect – employees are encouraged and valued, working as a team,
caring about and respecting each other
Fairness – balanced pay, neutrality – no preferential treatment, just - no discrimination
Pride – proud of your own work, proud of your team’s work, proud of the company’s performance
Camaraderie – sense of belonging and familiarity, friendly working atmosphere, all pulling in the same direction
A ‘great place to work’ is a workplace where you trust who you are working for, are proud of what you do and enjoy working with your fellow staff.
TRUST

4. The questionnaire
Standard for companies or organisations from all sectors sized 50 EE upwards
63 characteristics, demographic questions and three open questions
Takes around 15 minutes to complete

5. Focus on workplace culture
“Managers make their expectations clear.”
“We have a friendly working atmosphere here.”
When deciding on your answer please think of all the managers you encounter in your work – from your line manager all the way to the senior managers.
When answering please think of your experiences in your immediate working area and equally your experiences above and beyond this.

6. Who takes part?
Employees who have worked fewer than three months at the company at the start of the Great Place to Work® survey
Those working a “mini job”
Must: all active employees including trainees, dual degree students or working students if they do not meet the aforementioned criteria
Can: Employees on long-term absence (parental leave, long-term sickness, secondments, early retirement – participation is at the discretion of the company.
Special provision: temps, freelance staff, freelance sales agents, employees abroad

7. << Enter date of survey>>
How the survey works
ONLINE
For all employees with a valid company address
CODE LETTERS
Employees without a company address are given a printed invitation with an individual code
PAPER-PENCIL
Provision of printed questionnaires to be returned directly to Great Place to Work®
<< Enter date of survey>>

8. How does the online survey work?
How does the online survey work?
Invitation
Answer questionnaire
Finish questionnaire
Invitation with link to questionnaire is sent by GPtW to all participants
Employees are given enough time and space to answer the online questionnaire during working hours in peace and quiet at their place of work
Online questionnaire is sent to GPtW by clicking on ”Send off questionnaire”

9. How does the code letter survey work?
How does the code letter survey work?
Enter link & individual access code
Answer & send off survey
Code letter
Code letters are provided by GPtW
Project manager or manger at the company distributes the code letters
Employees call up the link to the survey portal contained in the code brief manually
Enter their individual access code to launch the survey
Employees are given enough time and space to answer the online questionnaire in peace at the workplace during working hours
Online questionnaire is sent to GPtW by clicking “Send off questionnaire”

10. How does the printed survey work?
Questionnaires
Complete questionnaire
Send off questionnaire
Questionnaires and return envelopes are provided by GPtW
Distributed at the company by project managers or managers
Employees are given enough time and space to complete the questionnaire in peace at the workplace during working hours
Sent by letter (recipient pays postage) or
Employees put the completed questionnaire into a dedicated collection box

11. Survey rules Participating in the survey is voluntary!
Anyone who does not wish to take part does not have to.
But we are of course pleased if there is a high participation rate.
Participating in the survey is anonymous!
Data privacy provisions are strictly adhered to.
No one in your company – apart from the participant in question – can look at the individual questionnaires.
Please tell what you honestly think of your company as an employer!
You have questions you‘d like to ask a Great Place to Work®?
No problem!
(Mo – Fr., 9.00 am – 5.00 pm)

12. Data privacy at Great Place to Work®
Great Place to Work® is subject to the particularly high professional conduct requirements relating to data privacy that apply to market and opinion researchers.
Questionnaires are not analysed inside the company but only by Great Place to Work®
No one can view the questionnaires outside of Great Place to Work®.
The company is only provided with the reports of the results.
There is a strict ban on results based on the answers of fewer than 5 employees when calculating results.
No combinations of socio-demographic characteristics.

13. Organisational units receiving a result
Results for:
<< enter areas>>
Break down according to:
Position
Occupational group
Gender ….
Information printed on the questionnaire or link to the address
Prerequisite: at least five respondents per group

14. After the survey the work continues!
<< Please provide a look ahead to the steps following a survey here>>
The aim: To identify the rights conclusions and aims resulting from the survey and to permanently improve the workplace culture.

15. Your role as a manager
Advertise and promote the survey and invite staff to participate.
Create the organisational prerequisites for your employees to be able to take part.
Observe the rules – anonymity, voluntary participation, honesty.
Lead by example and take part in the survey yourself.
Be open to the feedback you will get.
Prepare yourself for the dialogue and work on improvements together as a team.

16. Contact Great Place to Work® Deutschland T +49 (0) 221 933 35-113
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Great Place to Work® Deutschland l Hardefuststraße 7 l D Köln