I work for a rather large organization who does an annual survey on employee engagement to gather feedback about supervisors, management, the organization and policies. The survey is allegedly anonymous, yet somehow they (HR and leadership) seem to know who has and hasn’t completed the survey. The whole thing is absurd and nothing ever comes from the results. At best managers spend significant time trying to identify who writes what comments and then blaming that individual for their negativity. At worse teams are labeled complainers who need a culture change.
Today, our state level leadership told us in a meeting told us that they would really appreciate us completing the survey. As a “incentive,” leadership told us that if 100% of employees filled out the survey, they would throw each one of our offices a pizza party and we would all login to a conference call and talk about how great our state team is.
Needless to say I’ll not be filling out the survey. Bribery for a tool that can only be used against me is just stupid. And trying to bribe adults with a pizza party is childish.