Pre-Thesis

Surveys & Questionnaires

This is a practice activity – here are a few questions for you to work with. You need to re-write the questions and create the scales for each.

You will have to do a similar activity for the exam, so take the time to understand the principles.

The following are “bad” survey questions. What is wrong with the question and suggest a way to improve them. In addition, once you reword the question and create response categories for the questions. These should all be scaled responses – do not create open-ended questions only. If you were actually creating a survey you may want to leave room for comments on some, do not do that for this activity.

Bad question	Why?/Reworded question WITH Scale
1. I can always talk to my supervisor.
2. Training and career planning are available to me.
3. Communication at work is good
4. The pace at our company is hectic.
5. Information is widely shared at [Company] so that those who make decisions have access to all available data.