Offshore Outsourcing and Foreign Employment Questionnaire Analysis

This assignment is a questionnaire designed to gather data on offshore outsourcing practices, specifically focusing on the experiences and perspectives of foreign employees working at a managerial level in the UK. The questionnaire explores various aspects, including the motivations of companies for offshore outsourcing, the skills and qualifications valued in foreign hires, communication challenges, and the impact on productivity and profitability. It also investigates the employees' satisfaction, the problems they face, their reasons for residing in the UK, and their views on the employment system. The questionnaire further examines the contribution of foreign employees to offshore outsourcing, their comfort levels with UK-origin employees, and the overall success of offshore employment for companies. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the benefits, challenges, and implications of offshore outsourcing from the perspective of both employers and employees.

Questionnaire from the
proposal

Primary Source of data collection
The data will be collected from 25 foreign people living in UK since 10 years or above.
These are the people who are working at managerial level in the companies
Questionnaire
Personal information
Name: ______
Age: _______
Factors that motivate firms for offshore outsourcing
Question 1: What are the skills based on which you hire employees from foreign countries
rather than UK? (Mark all that apply)
a) Technical skills
b) Sense of discipline and self-motivation
c) Better than native candidates
d) Any other reason
Question 2: What is the main reason of the companies for hiring people from other
countries? (Mark all that apply)
a) Cheap availability of labour
b) Strong technical know how
c) Better understanding possessed by the person on stated subject
d) When the company is planning expansion in that country
e) Highly or over qualified work force
f) Any other reason
Question 3: Do you find any communication barrier in the employment process?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes
Question 4: Increase in the productivity is the only reason of off shoring preferred by the
employers?
a) Strongly Agree
b) Agree
c) Neutral

d) Disagree
e) Strongly disagree
Question 5: Is the employment from offshore is helping in generating higher profits for the
enterprise?
a) Strongly Agree
b) Agree
c) Neutral
d) Disagree
e) Strongly disagree
Question 6: What are the problems faced by the companies while opting for offshore
employment? (Mark all that apply)
a) They have to be provided with training and development
b) They are taught with the working ethics
c) To provide training regarding foreign languages to mitigate language barrier.
d) The employee may not prove to be that much productive
e) Reimbursement of their travel to the home country on yearly or semi-yearly basis
f) Other
Preference of people to reside in foreign nation
Question 7: Since how many years are you living in UK?
a) 10 Years
b) 10 - 15 years
c) 15 – 20 years
d) 20 or more years
Question 8: What is the purpose of your stay in UK?
a) Employment
b) Business
c) Family
d) Higher educational courses
e) Other
Question 9: What made you shift in UK?

a) Hike in salary
b) Hike in employment environment
c) Living standards
d) Lifestyle
e) Fulfilling ambition to work in foreign country
Question 10: Are you satisfied working with your employer in UK?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Neither satisfied nor dissatisfied
Question 11: Are your studies also going on with the job?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes
Question 12: What was the most difficult task after arriving in UK? (mark all that apply)
a) To find a house for living
b) To adjust with the food habits
c) To understand map of the country
d) Commutation issue
e) Others
Question 13: Was residence provided to you by your employer?
a) Yes
b) No
c) For first 3 months
d) For first six months
e) For one year or more
f) Permanent residence provided by the employer only
Question 14: What difference do you find in the employment system of your country and
UK? (mark all that apply)
a) Growth opportunities
b) Better salary
c) Flexible work environment

d) Better job profile offered
e) Job security
f) Recognition
h) No difference
Question 15: What are the disadvantages of working with the foreign employer?
a) Communication issues due to lack of understanding of the language
b) Difficult to deal with the customers and opt for front end jobs
c) Understanding the procedure of work as it is different from home country
d) Others
Question 16: Do you receive adequate benefit packages from the employer?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Often
d) Not very often
Question 17: What skills you had to inculcate to cope up with the difference in the working
environment?
a) Communication skills
d) Gathering knowledge regarding subject matter
c) Understanding the working environment through peers
d) Other
e) No problem was faced
Question 18: Were you referred by any friend or relative for working in UK?
a) Yes
b) No
Question 19: Do you think the companies must hire employees from their own home
country rather than opting for the professionals and workforce through off – shoring?
a) Yes
b) No
c) To some extent
Question 20: Was adequate training and development programme, offered to you by the
employer?

a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes, when required
Question 21: Have you been provided with adequate time to study if you have arrived in
the country for the purpose of higher study?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes
d) Depends of the work load in the office
Question 22: For how many years more will you be living in UK for your employment?
a) Less than 5 years
b) 5 – 10 years
c) 10 – 15 years
d) 15 – 20 years
e) 20 years or more
Contribution of people in elevating rate of offshore outsourcing
Question 23: Do you think the company must increase offshore employment?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Depend on company’s policy
Question 24: Are you comfortable while working with the employees who are from UK
origin?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Sometimes
Question 25: To what percentage, off shore employment proved successful for the
company?
a) Less than 10%
b) 10 % - 30 %
c) 30 % - 50 %
d) 50 % - 75 %

e) More than 75 %
Question 26: Is off shore employment important for every type of company?
a) Yes
b) No
Question 27: What types of companies must opt for off shore employment? (Mark all that
apply)
a) Manufacturing concern
b) Information Technological entities
c) Marketing related companies
d) Finance related companies
e) Others
Question 28: Is the productivity of the work affected due to increase in the hiring from
foreign countries?
a) Yes
b) No
c) To some extent
Question 29: Do you think, there must be increase in offshore employment for better
functioning of the company?
a) Yes
b) No
c) To some cases when it is required to meet specific needs that can be fulfilled by them