An organization’s strength is primarily predicated upon the quality and capabilities of its staff.  Conducting an employee cultural survey provides companies with the ability to determine their employees’ commitment to the organization.  The survey focuses on identifying the organization’s weaknesses and vulnerabilities to fraudulent behaviour as well its particular indicators. Moreover, the survey serves as a litmus test by pointing out particular attitudes and justifications that could eventually lead to acts of fraud.

The nagel + associates team has developed employee surveys for organizations in a variety of different industries. Our professionals can deliver paper and web-based surveys that are meticulously scrutinized and analyzed in conjunction with your management team. You will also receive thorough recommendations for remedying any identified deficiencies.

When employees feel as though they are an integral part of an organization, the likelihood of them engaging in illicit activity is reduced substantially. After all, to steal from a company where employees feel a sense of ‘belonging’ or ‘ownership’ would be akin to stealing from themselves. It would stand to reason, then, that a committed and valued employee is less prone to engage in illegalities such as fraud and other financial wrongdoings. Employee surveys are also critical to understand the areas within an organization that are most susceptible to fraud and therefore, it becomes vitally important that employees are properly trained to ensure that they possess the necessary tools to identify the “red flags” or indicators of fraud.

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The main objectives of conducting an employee survey are:

  • To create an open and honest dialogue between employees and senior management
  • To acquire insight into the current state of the organization
  • To assess organizational values
  • To recognize organizational successes and to better understand the challenges that it faces
  • To compare industry benchmarks to the overall state of an organization
  • To identifying industry and organizational trends

A retail company, ABC Inc., hired a forensic accounting firm to conduct an employee survey. ABC Inc. was a start-up, nascent organization that wished to acquire definitive, measurable and actionable feedback to guide them through the next stages of their business. Management required all ABC Inc. employees to anonymously take the custom employee survey that was developed by the forensic accounting firm, providing each member of ABC Inc.’s staff an opportunity to share their thoughts with open and honest feedback without the concern of possible negative ramifications to their standing within the organization.

The custom-tailored employee survey that the forensic accountants created for ABC Inc. took respondents an average of 10 minutes to complete and included a total 30 questions. Ensuring confidentiality and privacy for all of ABC Inc.’s employees was critical. In this particular case, the inclusion of a third-party forensic accounting firm allowed the employees to feel at ease with the content of the survey with the knowledge that they remained anonymous. The data was collected with the results subsequently presented to the management team of ABC Inc., providing insight and answers into the following concerns:

  • Establishing how content the employees were with the overall direction of the organization
  • Pinpointing the key issues that are most important to ABC Inc. employees
  • Identifying which aspects of the organization satisfied employees the most
  • Spotting the driving forces and criteria in achieving and realizing employee satisfaction
  • Distinguishing the tangible steps that ABC Inc. can undertake to improve as an organization

After the results of the employee survey were presented and disseminated, ABC Inc. implemented many new internal changes, which led to an increased level of employee morale, and as a direct result, an overall spike in productivity and sales.

To determine whether your organization may benefit from a custom-tailored employee survey, take the following brief survey: