Employee Turnover Is Increasing at Your Company

Multiple Choice

Employee turnover is increasing at your company. Morale is low and the situation is becoming costlier every day. The company is unsure as to the causes of this dissatisfaction, but wants to determine them so they can be remedied before things get worse. Upper management decides to do a survey to assess employee satisfaction and determine the areas that are most in need of change. The early thinking is to survey all 10,000 of its employees, including those overseas, to demonstrate how serious the company is about its commitment to improving the satisfaction of all its employees.
-You are part of the team working to create the survey. The recommendation to your team is that the surveys be conducted face-to-face or over the phone to increase the likelihood that participants will respond. Your team finds this approach problematic for your situation for a number of reasons. Which of the following is likely NOT one of these reasons?

A) Participants will be unable to ask clarifying questions during the survey.
B) The geographic distribution of employees could make this difficult to achieve.
C) Conducting these surveys for all the employees in the company would be time-consuming.
D) Researchers would have to manually record the results of surveys or enter them in spreadsheets.
E) Dedicated researchers would be needed to administer these types of surveys.