Best Companies Group conducts a simple yet thorough company assessment and is assisted by ModernThink, LLC, a workplace excellence consulting firm. You will see their name on the survey instruments and on the Findings Reports.

The assessment is a two-part process designed to gather detailed data about each participating company. In part one, the employer completes a questionnaire and in part two, employees of the company complete an employee survey.

The collected information from the two instruments will be combined to produce a detailed set of data enabling the experts to determine the strengths and opportunities of the participating companies. The workplaces are ranked based on this data and then the Assessment Findings Reports are returned to each participating company.

Part I - ModernThink Infrastructure and Practices Inventory ™ (employer questionnaire)

Each company must complete the ModernThink Infrastructure and Practices Inventory™ (employer questionnaire also known as the IPI). The employer questionnaire is a process by which important information is captured about policies, practices and demographics. This portion of the assessment is sent out shortly after the payment deadline and is due before the employee surveys (Part II) are due. Please refer to the timeline.

The employer questionnaire is sent to the survey coordinator electronically and is completed and submitted online to aid in the functionality and ease of the surveying process.

Part II - ModernThink Insight Survey (employee survey)

The ModernThink Insight Survey (employee survey) consists of approximately 65 statements that employees respond to on a five point Likert scale. The survey also includes 2 open-ended questions and 7 demographic questions.

Online or Traditional Paper? Best Companies Group conducts the majority of the employee surveys online. However, paper based surveys are available to those companies whose employees do not have online capabilities. An additional processing charge will be applied to registration fees that require paper-based surveys. For the online version, each employee will receive a Web-link via email along with a username and password to complete the survey. Companies choosing the online version of the survey will be asked to submit a list of randomly selected employee email address.

Please see our Statement of Confidentiality regarding the security of this sensitive data. All employee data is submitted anonymously.

The employee survey addresses behavioral tendencies rather than company systems. The results are analyzed and categorized according to 3 specific viewpoints.

Viewpoint Categories

1) Organization
2) Team
3) Individual

Number of employees being surveyed

Best Companies Group will survey up to 400 randomly selected employees in a company depending on company size. The chart below lists how many employees will be randomly selected to participate. The chart also lists the fees associated with each company size.

We encourage all companies to use the online survey process. However, if online surveys will not work for your company, we offer a traditional paper based survey option. The chart below lists a "paper fee" that will be charged if you want to utilize the paper survey option (the additional fee is for printing, shipping and processing the paper surveys).

Results

ModernThink, LLC sorts and interprets the data, determines the rankings and produces the Assessment Findings Reports. Best Companies Group packages the Assessment Findings Report and distributes them to each participating company. Click here to learn more about the Assessment Findings Report.

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