Just remember the Pulse Survey is not Anonymous and will be used against you!
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It’s anonymous.
Usually the salty disgruntled employees are obvious. You don't need a pulse survey to know who they are.
Chances are that, if you've provided negative verbal / ad hoc feedback in a Pulse Survey, that you've probably already voiced that concerns / sentiment to a co-worker or supervisor and people know that you're unhappy and about what so...anonymous or not, anyone familiar with with you will know that it is coming from you. Having been in management for over 20 years, I can say that the only clue to discern source at Director level and below is from geographic data. That said, I wouldn't put it past some leaders to be retaliatory and those would be the egocentric leaders who are not really concerned about the sate of the organization and morale. They are not there for you; you are there for them. You're probably better off.
Doesn't matter to me if anonymous or not. I'm certain nobody in my leadership chain actually reads into the results.
@a5 How does one prove it? Because Pulse survey comments is about the only way RIFing me above certain others on my team would make any sense.
If you can prove that and there was retaliation then you have yourself a lawsuit.
I’m retiring within a few months. Please give me a survey. I’ll put my name in the comments so they won’t get it wrong.
HR can see who submitted the survey. If a Director wants to know, they find out through HR. Regardless, nothing changes with the comments so why even bother? Its a lose - lose. They started the surveys to get feedback on poor leaders, that has now migrated to feedback going upstream and asking about poor investments in other companies and lack of vision and strategy. We have to answer to comments about ourselves as leaders, but the upward feedback is ignored. It is why they scaled back the number of surveys. Pathetic.
@a1 They are 100 percent not anonymous, I know this because twice this year people on my team got called out publicly for comments. I am on a small team part of a much larger team and was told by management that they give directors and managers down to the small team level of the comments. In addition even the site when you do the survey says HR and others have it as needed.
It’s not to VP’s and maybe SD’s who really want to know. Either way, I think it’s better to just say it like it is when the next one rolls around. I have zero confidence in the new leadership just like I did with Hans