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- MAT FPX 2001 Assessment 1 Initial Survey Design
Initial Survey Design
Surveys as an effective instrument used in different fields to collect information, determine people’s attitudes, and make a decision. In this assessment you undertake the first steps in survey design: selection of a topic of interest, definition of variables, and selection of survey population.
This is the first step in defining the study which is also known as the survey design and is an important factor in setting up a study that can give light to an issue that you find interesting in your daily life. The purpose of this assessment is to provide a clear indication of what exactly you want your survey to accomplish, the variables that you want to measure, and the population that you want to investigate.
This way, you will be ready and prepared to design a survey that will gather the right information that will be useful in subsequent evaluations. The knowledge and skills which are needed for designing and evaluating surveys will prove useful in nearly every subject from health and education to business and social sciences.
This assessment outlines the process of survey design and also strongly underscores the goal relevance while designing a survey. Whether you are working with a particular organization or you are interested in a specific area, having the survey that you design will be affirmative to ensure that you get the best data for decision-making.
Study Topic
Importance in Professional Life: Underlying every employee’s job is high levels of satisfaction; especially in the field of health where the level of patient care is determined by the employees’ morale and satisfaction. Since satisfied workers also ensure the morale is high, they care more about teamwork and benefit patient satisfaction hence improving the quality of care and operation as noted by Galleta et al. (2021). So, the levels of employee satisfaction are the information I need as a leader in a healthcare organization.
The result of this survey could be used to act on some of them, for example, extra support for the group could be provided if they report feeling underappreciated or overwhelmed at work; more programs aimed at work-life balance could be organized; and opportunities for training and development could be pursued (Salanova et al., 2020).
For instance, suppose the results of a survey show that many employees believe that the organization does not offer enough promotional chances; in this case, the organization could offer an adequate career map and more training resources. It could lead to better retention levels, lower turnover expenses, and an all-around enhanced and motivated employee persona (Brunetto et al., 2021).
Specific Examples of Usage:
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Improving Retention Rates:
If survey results show that the employees are not content in the positions they hold because of no acknowledgment or promotion, the organization can consider introducing the process of acknowledgement of employees’ work and the creation of new positions with better prospects. This might result in reduced turnover rates hence cutting on costs incurred in the recruitment and training of the staff (Lee et al., 2020).
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Enhancing Patient Care:
Hence, by obtaining factors that may cause tension or burning out within the workers like shortage of personnel or overworking, one can be in a position to make some changes. For instance, implementing new policies such as the adoption of flexible working hours or recruiting more staff in the organization may eliminate the current workers’ workload and therefore result in improved patient experiences because the healthcare providers would be more focused and less stressed (Schwartz et al., 2022).
Potential Variables
To test the hypothesis that there is a positive correlation between the level of employee satisfaction and the level of productivity in the workplace, the following variables have to be taken in the data collection process. These variables will thus give a holistic view of the determinants of the levels of employee satisfaction and how these affect the levels of productivity.
Some of the key variables may include job satisfaction, nature of the working environment, remunerations and other benefits, training and development prospects, flexibility and quality of time employees spend at work and the level of organizational commitment. Job satisfaction refers to the psychological attitude that employees hold towards their jobs and as such is positively linked with retention, productivity, and organizational outcomes (Locke, 2019).
MAT FPX 2001 Assessment 1 Initial Survey Design
Thus, the physical environment such as safety, ergonomics, and favorable social relationships at the workplace, determine the morale and productivity of employees (Sundstrom et al., 2020). Salary and benefits are prominent among them since organizational rewards, including reasonable wages and employee benefits, influence the staff’s motivation and retention (Judge et al., 2020).
Training and development are critical because they meet the needs of the employee for promotions and self-actualization as recommended by Noe et al. (2019). Balancing work and personal life is now a significant facet of promoting the well-being of workers and their effectiveness at work as it defines stress and general satisfaction with the job (Greenhaus, & Allen, 2021). Finally, employee engagement that captures emotional and cognitive involvement in work and the organization is strongly associated with productivity and job satisfaction (Bakker et al., 2020). Thus, incorporating such variables in the survey, the study can offer recommendations for improving the employees’ quality of life and organizational effectiveness.
Specific Population
Selecting healthcare employees as the sample population to investigate the issue of employee satisfaction and its implications on productivity is specifically suitable for several reasons. Healthcare workers are hospital staff that directly contribute to the nature and course of a patient’s treatment process as well as determine the performance of the medical facility in its objectives.
This is important because job satisfaction impacts the worker’s performance and the quality of patient care that they deliver. Focusing on this group can provide an understanding of how the satisfaction of employees contributes to awareness of better satisfaction and improves patient experience and efficiency of the processes (Galleta et al., 2021).
Also, the healthcare sector is considered to have higher stress levels; this brings some other challenges, for example, working long hours, and working under pressure. It is important to understand job satisfaction in this regard in then to establish stressors and ways of dealing with burnout, which is a big problem in the healthcare sector (Salanova et al., 2020).
Furthermore, the healthcare sector has major staffing problems including employee turnover and employee attrition, therefore researchers must focus on this population to ensure that it can aid in the solution to improve employee staffing and stability (Brunetto et al., 2021). The insights gained can assist healthcare organizations put in place tailored interventions that are consistent with organizational objectives of improving service delivery and thus better patient satisfaction (Lee et al., 2020).
Employing healthcare workers proposes information from the particular locator that could not be relevant to different businesses as a result of the character of their survival environment and stress origin (Schwartz et al., 2022). Consequently, data derived from this population are relevant as well as useful in enhancing not only human capital but also organizational performance outcomes.
Conclusion
In conclusion, it is to mention that the development of an initial survey on the topic of satisfaction of the employees having connections to productivity in the healthcare sector is a tactical and informative action. Thus, as the study is devoted to the analysis of healthcare employees, it jointly responds to the need to focus on an essential concern that depends on job satisfaction concerning not only the performance of the employee but overall organizational effectiveness and enhanced quality of patient care.
MAT FPX 2001 Assessment 1 Initial Survey Design
The degree of choice of the execution of the chosen variables, such as job satisfaction, physical and social climate, pay, personal and career development, work/life balance, and staff engagement, is crucial to the recognition of the complexity of the impact of satisfaction of the employees on productivity.
These variables will give a holistic insight into various factors that are associated with job satisfaction and how the latter influences organizational productivity and patient outcomes. The selection of the target group of healthcare employees can be justified by the fact that the job environment commonly human in the clinical sector, often entails several complexities that adversely affect levels of job satisfaction and consequently productivity in this field.
It also guarantees that the suggested strategies will be helpful for healthcare organizations that are interested in improving employee’s quality of life and organizational performance. To enhance job satisfaction as well as prevent burnout, the insights generated from this survey will go a long way to help in formulating better solutions than the currently low rates reported in this survey while at the same time making valuable contributions towards improving patient care and organizational performance.
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