Question

Article: Employee Surveys Administered Online: Attitudes towards the Medium, Nonresponse, and Data Representativeness. by Foster, L. and Surface, E.A (2007)

Find the following categories and explain in detail:

Introduction

Description or article objectives

Assumptions

Dependent and independent variables

Diagram of the theory

Areas of application of the theory or Methodology

Discuss an article about some research that has used the theory as a theoretical framework, you must present criticisms that have been made to the theory and / or if the theory has evolved.

Answer 1

INTRODUCTION

This field study of employee Surveys offers a method for studying how people feel to take survey's whether they are dissatisfied with taking computer based surveys, why do we have nonrespondees in the form and what would they feel to fill a form.As per the previous research people are not willing to take web based surveys.There are many issues which discouraged people from taking the online survey.Results will be discussed in the terms of factors driving the non response, attitude towards the medium and data representativeness.

DESCRIPTION

In recent times many organizations have shifted from paper based surveys to web based surveys, and reported a decline in response rates.Some of the people thinks that people who are not intrested and reading the questions are highly skipping the survey.

Although, now a days internet has become major means of service in terms of data collection and storage, research is required to verify its prons and cons.The main purpose of this is to determine how employee feels while taking the survey and why are feeling dissatisfied.In addition to this the consequences of non responses are examined by looking at the data provided by the personnel who choose to complete the whole survey.

ASSUMPTIONS:

Although there are great results in web based surveys people are now focusing to research on non responses.These include a lack of bandwidth, access to particular technology which makes them to complete the survey easily, quality of the data or security to their data.

Many of them assumed that privacy of their data and data security would be the key factor for non responding to the web surveys.Though nearly seventy percent of the people are taking the survey,they noted that technology problems caused some people to dislike webbased surveys.

Variables include total population, response rate,survey method,questions addressed

Date	population	response rate	construct	Method	questions addressed
May 2020	Entire organization	n=297(39%)	climate	webbased	na
July 2020	Entire organization	n=301	survey perceptions	webbased	1
August 2020	Directorate X	86% of n=73	nonresponsive reasons	webbased	1,2
			Climate	paper based	3
			Survey perceptions	paper based	2
			No response reasons	focusgroup discussions	1,2

METHODS:

Climate based information this survey includes to show the results where employees are taken it in different environments.You can observe the change in the different methods from the above table.

Thus about the categories in detail.