The Ranking

The Great Place to Work^® Trust Index^© is an employee survey tool that measures the level of trust, pride, and camaraderie within your workplace. Employee responses to this instrument comprise the majority of an organization's score for all of our Best Companies lists. We make this instrument available to accepted applicants for any of our Best Companies lists during the employee survey portion of the application process.

The information that follows will provide you with a sense of the nature of the survey.

The Trust Index^©:

• Consists of 57 statements that cover credibility, respect, fairness, pride, and camaraderie - the five dimensions that correspond with the Great Place to Work® Model©.
• The 57 positively worded statements fall into one of the five dimensions of the Model^©. Some sample statements follow:

Credibility

Management keeps me informed about important issues and changes. People around here are given a lot of responsibility.

Respect

Management involves people in decisions that affect their jobs or work environment. I am offered training and development to further myself professionally.

• Contains two open-ended questions which allow employees to express, in their own words, what makes their company great and what could be done to improve the work place.
• Takes just 15 minutes for employees to complete
• How It Works
• Surveys are conducted on paper or via the web (for organizations that meet our criteria for online participation)
• Employees submit surveys directly to the Great Place to Work® Institute either via postage-paid envelope or the Internet.

What You Get

All organizations who participate in the process (regardless if chosen for the list) will receive a complementary feedback report which contains the following information:

• Summary scores of how your employees responded to each of the 57 statements
• Scores presented by various demographic options (job type, gender, age category, tenure, racial/ethnic identity & work status)

Great Place to Work^® Culture Audit^©

The Great Place to Work^® Culture Audit^© is a management questionnaire that we utilize to gain a better sense of the overall culture of the organization. We only make this instrument available to accepted applicants. However, the information that follows will provide you with a feel for the nature of the questionnaire.

The Culture Audit^©:

There are two parts to this instrument. In Part I, we ask about items such as employee demographics (i.e. number of employees in the U.S., voluntary turnover, ethnic breakdowns, tenure, etc.). We also ask general information about the company (i.e. year founded, revenues), as well as about benefits and perks offered to employees (i.e. on-site fitness center, percentage insurance premium paid by company for employee, number of holiday days).

Part 2 of the Culture Audit^© asks open-ended questions that give the members of the company an opportunity to share with us various aspects of their culture. The questions in Part 2 relate to the Great Place to Work^® Model^© which is the focus of this component of the evaluation.