Chapter 5. SELECTING CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT TO SURVEY

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

—IRIS MURDOCH, The Times of London, April 15, 1983

In Chapter 4, an initial selection of areas to survey was completed as part of the planning process. This chapter describes techniques for identifying the conditions of employment applicable to your company. They then become the dimensions in which you will survey, but you also need to identify the subareas within each dimension.

At this point, you are ready to start gathering the information required for designing the survey, and that will require contact with employees. Before initiating such contact, the employees should be informed of the plan ...

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