05/08/2019
Banish Office Politics – Survey Questions
The goal is to identify root causes of politics. Please message me your additions to these questions. I will give credit. I will then create Google forms and we can do survey. Final survey data will be open sourced.
Questions
1) Name
2) Profession
3) Industry experience
4) Education
5) Location, City
6) Largest company size you have worked in
7) Type of industry- IT, manufacturing
8) Have you seen co-workers who speak the same language form groups and boost each others ratings unfairly?
9) Have you seen co-workers of similar castes form groups and boost each others ratings?
10) Have you seen co-workers talk highly about their friends on knowledgebility and not do this type of thing on timeliness?
11) Do you think helping others will be more if the one who gives help is also rewarded if the peer does well?
12) Do you believe finding names by managment of people who systematically do politics will help banish politics?
13) Have you seen workers take excessive time to do tasks because they feel like having fun?
14) Have you seen co-workers fight over credit?
15) Have you seen employees pull each other down so that they can go up?
16) Have you seen middle managers misusing their authority because they are not strongly attached to company name?
17) Do you believe some people are inherently problematic or there are reasons originating from money for politics – Linkedin comment from Pankaj Sali.
18) Do you believe companies as a policy like to increase work load, which hurts employees, and avoid costs of hiring employees – Linkedin comment from Pranav Agashe.
19) Is politics more in bad markets?
20) Are employees with better communciation skills but not nessesarily technical skills preferred by management? - Modified based on Karim Khan’s comment
21) Do only few people get bonus even if everyone has worked in the team? - Karim Khan comment, also studied by Manish Gupte in 2003.
22) Do you believe object online test is better than students’ project marks for recruitment?
