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What is good survey methodology for employee research?
The short answer
Good survey methodology is a real discipline: define the construct, choose validated items and response formats, guard against acquiescence and mode effects, and establish reliability before you trust a number. Most HR surveys skip this and report artifacts as insight.
The problem underneath
Survey design is a discipline with decades of methodological evidence on construct validity, response formats, scale reliability, and mode effects — most HR surveys ignore this literature entirely.
The evidence
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