Factors Affecting Employee Performance and Decision Making at Work

[cesh10]

Hi everyone,

I'm currently researching some of the factors which impact upon performance and decision making at work as part of my MSc at Manchester Business School.

I'm taking into account a number of organisational practises as well as employee characteristics and would love to get some info from users of the forum. If you would like to help me out with this research, the link to my online survey is:
http://mbs.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_83cunSp28XBHnFP
It takes about 10 minutes to complete.

Hopefully I'll have some useful information to share with you once I've finished collecting data, and maybe some suggestions for organisational practises.

I don't want to post too much info about the type of employee decision making I'm looking at just yet because I don't want to bias people's responses to the survey but If you'd like any further info after you've completed it feel free to email me (my email address is at the end of the survey).

Thanks for your help with this and I look forward to discussing the findings with you.

In the meantime, does anyone have any thoughts on what characteristics of an employee or an organisation leads to good performance?

 

[Shawn Latham]

I'm taking into account a number of organisational practises as well as employee characteristics

I filled out your survey & don't see how it takes into account any "organisational practises"?

What leads to good performance? Training, ability & motivation would be the main things IMO.

 

[cesh10]

I filled out your survey & don't see how it takes into account any "organisational practises"?

What leads to good performance? Training, ability & motivation would be the main things IMO.

There are actually two organisational practises in there but I don't want to say what they are just yet as that could change how people answer the questions (also, there's a control condition which doesn't include these so you may have been in that group)

Thanks to everyone who has taken part so far. If anyone else could spare the 10 minutes to complete the survey I'd really appreciate it. I think the findings will be really relevant to a lot of users of this forum.

 

[KieranJKerry]

I used to work at a place where it was just endless work, and not even a thank you at the end, Try setting hard Goals but rewarding them with small monthly bonus's and saying thank you and telling them how there doing everyone and again really helps. Or give them small shares in the company so they feel like the more they work the more there shares are worth.

 

[TotallySport]

just watch The Call Center on BBC.

 

[cesh10]

i took the survey but i think Training, determination and talent would be the main thing that enhances the performance

Cheers for completing the survey oneworld, it's really appreciated.

I agree training talent and determination are important. Determination is an interesting point because organisations try so many different methods to increase employees' determination which is one of the things my survey looks at. Goal setting is probably the most widely used but I think Kieran's suggestion of giving a small amount of shares to employees could be a good way to increase motivation and determination.

 

[James Blundell]

I started completing the survey, but stopped half way through as I felt the questions were too vague. I'll happily discuss this with you in more detail if you like, but didn't want to finish the survey and messing up your results.

 

[cesh10]

I started completing the survey, but stopped half way through as I felt the questions were too vague. I'll happily discuss this with you in more detail if you like, but didn't want to finish the survey and messing up your results.

Hi James, thanks for the feedback.

I know some of the questions (Section 2 in particular) can seem quite vague but they're mostly from standardised questionnaires and are designed to illicit a response from limited information so please don't let that put you off the research!

Any other thoughts or feedback are welcome