| I. YOUR ORGANIZATION HAS TWO CHALLENGES NOT SEEN SINCE THE 30's:
#1 The most severe economic slowdown since the Great Depression - resulting in a need to obtain optimum performance from a downsized and possibly demoralized workforce; 66% of the employees in organizations where layoffs have recently occurred said that "morale has suffered and their fellow employees are less motivated"
#2 Likely passage of a version of the Employee Free Choice Act, the most significant pro-union changes to the National Labor Relations Act since it was passed in 1935. This law would make it much easier to organize your employees - in part, by not allowing you sufficient time to react after the union files a petition for an election |
II. A WAY YOU CAN ADDRESS THESE CHALLENGES:
Using the latest employee and organizational performance research, The Focus Group has developed a quick, reasonably priced employee survey that will tell you what your management team can specifically do to:
- Increase your level of employee engagement - thus enhancing employee and organizational performance
- Minimize your organization's chances of being unionized - by addressing the issues that might cause your employees to want a union to represent them
Organizations that fail to find out "where they stand" today are taking a huge risk and potentially "leaving a lot of money on the table" - substantially more than the cost of conducting the survey. |
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III. HOW THIS FIVE-STEP SURVEY PROCESS CAN WORK FOR YOU:
1. A pre-suvey meeting to tailor the survey process to your organization's unique needs
2. Administration of the survey with only 30 closed ended questions - by an HR professional with years of survey experience - in employee meetings taking a maximum of 30 minutes with no limit to the number of employees attending any meeting.
3. A Findings Report is developed providing your organization with comparisons to a database and containing:
Your Employee Engagement Scores by Question
- Company-wide
- By facility
- By department
- By supervisor
Your Union Vulnerability Scores by Question
- Company-wide
- By facility
- By department
- By supervisor
4. A post-survey meeting to interpret your survey results, answer your questions and offer practical suggestions for addressing your results and increasing your scores |
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IV. THE SURVEY'S RESEARCH BASIS:
After extensive research the Hay Group, Gallup, Towers Perin, Kenexa, Quantum and other name organizations have identified:
- The few employee workplace needs and issues that, when met, cause employees to be engaged and also less likely to be interesed in a labor union
- That these core needs are satisfied or not depending primarily upon the actions of each employee's immediate supervisor - each employee's relationship with his/her manager is even more critical than some have thought
- That when these core employee needs are met, employees:
- create over 10% higher customer satisfaction
- are over 15% more productive
- are 50% less likely to leave the organization
- have over 60% fewer accidents
- are much less likely to be interested in joining a union
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V. THE VALUE OF YOUR CONDUCTING THIS SURVEY NOW:
- Your need to obtain optimum performance from your downsized/lean workforce
- Potential passage of the Employee Free Choice Act; 89% of companies recently surveyed believe the EFCA will increase their organization's vulnerability to unions
- The AFL-CIO and Change to Win pushing for passage of the Employee
Free Choice Act saying the new President and Congress "owe" them for their estimated $1 billion in campaign contributions
- A more pro-labor congress and two recent pro-labor appointments to the NLRB Unions having won over two-thirds of the recent organizing elections
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