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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 127 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Don't ever engage with culture sensing surveys honestly. The only place they weren't a trap (ironically) was the US Army where they did it on paper, punished people for putting their names on them, and walked right past your entire immediate chain of command to their bosses with the results. And the one time things were truly bad they literally brought in a Sociology expert to study our unit and figure out how things had gone bad, it resulted in all new leadership and team building exercises, in a war zone. (These results do not extend to other branches, I had one done by the Navy and it was corpo trap bullshit, got a lot of the Army guys there by surprise.)

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Or engage with them but expect the repercussions.

I'm very candid when this shit comes around my corp and am extremely nuanced in explaining the culture challenges.

The trick is to not explicitly call anyone out and highlight it's a systemic problem.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a very fine line though. and you're hoping they don't fire you just for being the bent nail.

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh I agree but thing is it's principles for me. I spoke to a coworker recently about this in relation to a bad worker and if they should go to HR. My argument is I can't rely on other people to speak about the challenges so it's beholden on me to do that for those that may not want to take that risk.

It's only a job. I make damn good money but if I got let go because of my principles that's a good reason.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

In our corp, our managers get the answers and results without the names of employees that gave the answers. Did not see anyone regretting being honest on the survey yet.

I am wondering more and more if it is the corp I work for that is unusual, if it is because it is in the EU, not US (even though corp is US based), or if just the people with worst experiences are the most keen to share them...

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There probably is a confirmation bias at work here. People with healthy workplaces are probably less likely to complain online?

Same that they anonymized the data but c'mon I know people writing style I could tell which coworker wrote what if they narrow it down enough like by department.

[–] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yes and no. The survey is always scoring something 1-10 and then a text field on explanation/how to improve it. If you are too worried, you can just give the score. Even so, most people just fill them in normally and as I said, I did not see anyone regret being honest. But that is indeed likely partially because we are not in the US.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 weeks ago

Lesson I learned the hard way: if any study comes around on your satisfaction, don't answer it. If management comes asking why you haven't answered the study, apologize, you've been swamped, you'll get get right on it, and you lie your ass off.

[–] Draedron@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 2 weeks ago

I have always engaged with every one of them and have been negative quite often yet never anything bad came of it. Probably because we have employee rights where I live. So the actual problem is americas lacks of rights.

[–] RestrictedAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I worked for a youuuuuuge international corporation that did a survey in the late 1990s.

They took them extremely seriously and trained and replaced the poor performing leadership.

It led to a big jump in profits.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I'm glad someone is using it correctly then.