Business Practice: Data Collection, Analysis, and Report Writing

This report focuses on the application of data collection methods to evaluate business practices, specifically examining employee perspectives on pay structures and other workplace factors. The report begins with an introduction highlighting the importance of employee satisfaction and the role of managers in addressing employee concerns. The main body of the report discusses the suitability of data collection methods, with a strong emphasis on the use of questionnaires as a primary data gathering tool. The questionnaire itself, comprising both open-ended and multiple-choice questions, is presented, targeting employee feedback on job roles, pay satisfaction, management practices, and potential areas of improvement within the organization. The justification section explains the rationale behind the chosen questions, emphasizing the importance of understanding employee sentiments regarding pay, potential discrimination, and overall job satisfaction. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of data-driven insights for retaining employees and fostering organizational growth. References to relevant academic sources are provided to support the analysis and findings presented in the report.

Using Data to build
business practice

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Main body..................................................................................................................................3
Suitability of the data collection............................................................................................3
Questionnaire.........................................................................................................................4
Justification............................................................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
In this report, a review is analysed to make a review for the pay’s structure of the
company. Here all the information is collected from the employees in the organisation and try
to know more about the issues which are facing by their employees. In a successful
organisation it is important that their employee’s feel satisfy and happy (Bocken and Ritala,
2021). It is the duty of the manager to make sure about the employee’s behaviour and attitude
towards the company so that within the time period they can easily find out the solutions for
the problem arises. In this report, some information about data collection and suitability
analysis in completed. In order to collect the data the chosen form of method for data
collection is questionnaire.
Main body
Suitability of the data collection
In today’s world this is very important to collect the data to analysis the situation of
company. Data of the company can tell the story which is related to relationship of their
employees, and their way to complete operations. Some of the methods are quantitative
which are deal in numbers means have some numerical values. Whereas another one is
qualitative method, which are used for some large amount of population, such as survey and
large scale benchmark (Data Collection Methods, 2021). Quantitative and qualitative
methods are very interesting and useful for the evaluation and analysis of the data collection
process within the organisation. There are various methods from which data can be collected;
Interview, questionnaire, observations, documents, focus group and oral history.
Among all the methods, the best suitable methods which are used by organisations is
questionnaire. In this report the questionnaire is conducted in between 100 group of people.
The suitability of the questionnaire contain effectiveness which means having some attractive
and positive questions for the respondent so that they feel safe while answering the questions.
While having some major advantages from the questionnaire as it is inexpensive and easy to
afford by different organisation (Heisler, 2021). Questionnaire examples are more practical in
order to collect the data in an ethical manner. There are different type of questionnaire like
open-ended, multiple choice questions (The Suitability Questionnaire and Underlying
Methodology, 2020). Furthermore, another advantage for conducting questions are as it is
helpful in order to access the result as fast as possible and it show the fact which they wanted
to know within or outside the organisation. This help the company to provide a large

scalability which allow the large scale information from a large number of audience (Weber
and Haseki, 2021). The managers of the company can easily evaluate the performance and
result of the questionnaire form their own company or with some another company. This
create an actionable data, which are helpful for organisation to perform and evaluate the
company present situation with past situations. Also, questionnaire consist more than one
topic in a single time which are time saving and cost saving method for the company. With
the help of above suitability of questionnaires which are related to the growth of company.
So, for conducting this data collection in report, questionnaire is chosen as it is best suitable
for the company’s survey and conduct a review for analysing the growth and employee’s
thinking ability towards the company (Gutnik, 2021).
Questionnaire
Questionnaire
Ques1. What are the major job roles which are assigned to you within an organisation?
Ans.
Ques2. Are you happy with the current pay structure for the position you work?
a) Low
b) Medium
c) High
Ques3. How often you experience the turnover in this position?
Ans.
Ques4. How is the implementation of payroll organised i.e. who are giving the power to
start or stop the payroll structure within the organisation?
Ans.
Ques5. Is there any suggestions do you have in considering overall improvement within the
department?
a) Yes
b) No
c) If yes, please explain….
Ques6. What you think about the top management are they treated staff fairly?
a) Strongly agree
b) Agree
c) Disagree
d) Strongly disagree

e) Undecided
Ques7. How many time top management team reach to you for discussing job related
issues?
a) Strongly agree
b) Agree
c) Disagree
d) Strongly disagree
Ques8. What are the factors which are affected to the employees to look up for new
employment?
a) Workload
b) Relationship with co-workers
c) salary
d) Quality of management
e) any other (Please specify)
Ques9. Have to ever fill discomfort or illegal misconduct in the organisation?
a) Yes
b) No
Ques10. What are the major issues which are you faced within the organisation?
a) Gender discrimination
b) Age distribution
c) Different pay scale
d) Any other (Please specify in detail)
Justification
From the above questionnaire, different type of questions are choose in regards to
know more about the employee’s feeling and their own prospective towards the company.
As the top management can feel that there are some dispute or irregularity happens in
between their lower employees. So, in order to find out the different aspects of employee’s
these questions are designed and analysis their outcomes for effective growth of company.
Most of the employees have issues in their pay roll and gender discrimination within an
organisation. With the help of this information company can choose different strategies and
programme which are helpful in satisfying their needs which are not completing in an
organisation (Ikävalko and Kohvakka, 2021). In this questionnaire, the questions are mainly

related to payroll schemes and factors which may affect the employee’s decision in regards to
shift the job position. Furthermore, the need is arises to know in detail about the management
misbalance and misconduct within an organisation.
Conclusion
From the above report it is concluded that it is very important to retain an employee in
the organisation for the longer period. If an employee feel safe and progress in their future
then they stay longer in the organisation and help the organisation for the growth. In this
report some major effective use of data collection is used in order to analysis the situation of
the company, the managers can use the questionnaire format to collect the information from
the employee it may be in form of electronic or some physical form.

References
Books and Journals
Bocken, N. and Ritala, P., 2021. Six ways to build circular business models. Journal of
Business Strategy.
Gutnik, S., 2021. Application of Data Mining and Machine Learning Methods to Enhance the
Effectiveness of Digital Marketing Strategies. In Digital Strategies in a Global
Market (pp. 131-144). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Heisler, W., 2021. Increasing pay transparency: A guide for change. Business
Horizons, 64(1), pp.73-81.
Ikävalko, H. and Kohvakka, R., 2021. The role of work orientation and gender on feelings
toward pay. Gender in Management: An International Journal.
Weber, M.S. and Haseki, M., 2021. Social Media Affordances to Engage Clients During the
Sales Process: Sequential versus Multiplex Media Use. International Journal of
Electronic Commerce, 25(1), pp.73-98.
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Data Collection Methods, 2021. [Online]. Available through:<
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The Suitability Questionnaire and Underlying Methodology, 2020. [Online]. Available
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