Developing a Questionnaire for Employee Dissatisfaction with Pay Structure

This report focuses on developing a questionnaire to gather data on employee dissatisfaction with pay structure. It discusses the suitability of using a questionnaire as a data collection method and justifies the types of questions asked. The questionnaire includes questions on employee tenure, understanding of pay structure, satisfaction with the working environment, discrimination at the workplace, reasons for job dissatisfaction, and more. The report concludes with insights on the challenges faced by the company regarding age discrimination.

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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK...............................................................................................................................................1
Suitability of a questionnaire..................................................................................................1
What data need to collect.......................................................................................................1
Justification for the types of questions asked.........................................................................1
Questionnaire..........................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
The present report is concerned with developing the questionnaire about employee
dissatisfaction with their pay structure. Questionnaire will be developing to gather the needed
data and information with proper justification. There will be discussing about the suitability of
questionnaire as data collection method for project (Bouman, Steg and Kiers, 2018).
TASK
Suitability of a questionnaire
For collection of information, there has been primary method of data collect used. Questionnaire
will be developing as data collected method for this current project. The suitability of developing
the questionnaire is that each respondent received identical set of the questions. The
questionnaire is easier to generate the quantitative data and easier to be analyse. Through using
the questionnaire, it is easier to collect the more information from large number of respondents
within short time period in cost effective manner. Outcomes of questionnaire can be easily and
quickly quantified through an investigator (Brace, 2018).
What data need to collect
In this, data will be collecting regarding dissatisfaction of staff members with pay structure
within an organisation. Other than this, there are some issues faced by employees at workplace
such as gender mix, pay scale, age distribution in various roles (Gonzalez-Franco and Peck,
2018).
Justification for the types of questions asked
For collection of information, there will be close ended type of questions asked. This kind of
questions can be answered through choosing from limited number of the options mainly multiple
choice. Close ended questions provide the limited insights but can be analysed in an easy manner
for quantitative data (Krosnick, 2018).
For collection of information, there will be random sampling method using and 40
sample size chosen. The selected respondents are employees of company as they have
understanding about company operations and face many issues at workplace (Nordhoff and et.
al., 2018).

Questionnaire
QUESTIONNAIRE
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Q1) How long have you been employed at your present organisation?
a) Less than 1 year
b) 1-3 years
c) 3-5 years
d) More than 5 years
Q2) Do you have appropriate understanding about the concept of pay structure?
a) Yes
b) No
Q3) Are you satisfied from the working environment of an organisation?
a) Yes
b) No
Q4) According to you, on which basis company make discrimination among staff members
at workplace?
a) Age
b) Gender
c) Religion
Q5) Have you ever been faced any kind of discrimination at workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q6) What are the different reasons of your job dissatisfaction from an organisation?
a) Negative working environment
b) Discrimination
c) Low level of pay scale
Q7) Have you ever been facing any issues regarding with the pay structure of company?
a) Yes
b) No

Q8) What do you think, does salary impact the job satisfaction of employees?
a) Yes
b) No
Q9) According to your opinion, does senior management make the differentiation on the
basis of gender?
a) Yes
b) No
Q10) What are the different issues fueling the gender inequality at workplace
environment?
a) Unequal pay
b) Sexual harassment
c) Women are promoted less often than men
d) Racism
Q11) Have you ever experienced the gender discrimination at
workplace?
a) Yes
b) No
Q12) As per your viewpoint, does company promoted the women less than the men?
a) Yes
b) No
Q13) In which manner, age discrimination impact on your performance level?
a) Positive manner
b) Negative manner
Q14) What makes you to be sustained at workplace?
a) Giving them responsibilities
b) Motivation
c) Promotion
Q15) What do you think, which challenges are faced by the company regarding the age
discrimination?
a) Businesses lose workers
b) Businesses have legal liabilities

c) Older workers experience mental health issues
d) Not prepared for future needs
Q16) According to you, what measures company should be adopted to prevent workplace
from discrimination?
a) Provide training
b) Enforce the policy
c) Understand key obligations
Q17) Recommend ways company needs to opt for improving employees pay structure.
Frequency Table
Q1) How long have you been employed at your present organisation? Frequency
a) Less than 1 year 10
b) 1-3 years 12
c) 3-5 years 15
d) More than 5 years 3
Q2) Do you have appropriate understanding about the concept of pay
structure?
Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10
Q3) Are you satisfied from the working environment of an
organisation?
Frequency
a) Yes 28
b) No 12
Q4) According to you, on which basis company make discrimination
among staff members at workplace?
Frequency
a) Age 15
b) Gender 10
c) Religion 15
Q5) Have you ever been faced any kind of discrimination at
workplace?
Frequency
a) Yes 18

b) No 22
Q6) What are the different reasons of your job dissatisfaction from an
organisation?
Frequency
a) Negative working environment 12
b) Discrimination 18
c) Low level of pay scale 10
Q7) Have you ever been facing any issues regarding with the pay
structure of company?
Frequency
a) Yes 25
b) No 15
Q8) What do you think, does salary impact the job satisfaction of
employees?
Frequency
a) Yes 30
b) No 10
Q9) According to your opinion, does senior management make the
differentiation on the basis of gender?
Frequency
a) Yes 22
b) No 18
Q10) What are the different issues fueling the gender inequality at
workplace environment?
Frequency
a) Unequal pay 10
b) Sexual harassment 10
c) Women are promoted less often than men 10
d) Racism 10
Q11) Have you ever experienced the gender
discrimination at workplace?
a) Yes 8
b) No 32

Q12) As per your viewpoint, does company promoted the women less
than the men?
Frequency
a) Yes 22
b) No 18
Q13) In which manner, age discrimination impact on your
performance level?
Frequency
a) Positive manner 12
b) Negative manner 28
Q14) What makes you to be sustained at workplace? Frequency
a) Giving them responsibilities 18
b) Motivation 14
c) Promotion 8
Q15) What do you think, which challenges are faced by the company
regarding the age discrimination?
Frequency
a) Businesses lose workers 10
b) Businesses have legal liabilities 10
c) Older workers experience mental health issues 10
d) Not prepared for future needs 10
Q16) According to you, what measures company should be adopted to
prevent workplace from discrimination?
Frequency
a) Provide training 12
b) Enforce the policy 18
c) Understand key obligations 10
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from above mention information that questionnaire developed on the
basis of different subject areas and issues faced by employees at workplace. There has been
discussed about the suitability of using questionnaire as it can able to gather more information.
To collect the data, there has been close ended questions mentioned in questionnaire.

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Nordhoff, S. and et. al., 2018. User acceptance of automated shuttles in Berlin-Schöneberg: A
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