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What
figure 1. Federal-Mogul Employee Survey Results
Bradford - Overall Favourable Rating

14%
Do You

44%
Think

Of It
42%

Favourable Un-favourable Not applicable / Don't
So Far?
know

he summary of the Federal-Mogul Employee Survey
results – see figure 1 - shows an overall favourable Your Views
T rating of 44 per cent across the site.
Taken Into
But what does that mean? Is that good or bad? How do we
compare with the industry norm?
Account
The real question is not so much what do these results tell us about where we’ve
come from but how can we use them to build a better future. In other words - what’s
going to change as a result of understanding and acting upon your views?

What Did
Who’s Bothered? You Say?

First things first. Let’s look at the
size of the sample so that we can un-
derstand just how many people’s views
are being represented. It is just
During October and November of not possible to
last year, everyone on the Bradford site present a full pic-
– that is 306 employees - was given the ture of the results.
opportunity to take part on the Federal- Not because there’s
Mogul employee survey. Disappointingly, anything anyone
only 45% of employees returned their wants to hide but
forms for inclusion in the results. because the full results are contained in
Statistically the results are still valid two massive loose-leaf ring-binders, each
but it does mean that the views of almost about six inches deep.
170 employees cannot be taken into account because we Within those, the results are played back in a variety of ways:
do not know what they are. according to which of the areas of the business you work, as a comparison
Now, does that mean 55% of the workforce just aren’t with the total results from all the Federal-Mogul sites surveyed; as a
interested in making the Bradford site a better place to comparison with the industry norm (a statistical means which surveys
work? Or, does it mean that 170 employees think the whole literally tens of thousands of employees in manufacturing organisations
thing is a waste of time anyway because no matter what throughout the USA to create a norm figure for the industry); a straight
you say, it won’t make a jot of difference? percentage response against each of the 62 questions asked and as a
Unfortunately, we can only guess because so many simple summary gathering each of those 62 questions into each of 16
of you decided to keep your views to yourselves. Well, subject categories.
okay – even when you say nothing, it’s a statement of a Of course, by its very nature a summary provides only an overview
kind and it’s not one we’re going to ignore. So, let’s be which can tend to misinterpret some results - without intending to. But,
bold and say to everyone on site – whether you are actively to go into all the detail would take ten times the space we’ve got, bore
part of the team which wants to play a role in you to distraction and probably leave you none the wiser. So, what follows
2 improving conditions across a whole range of issues tries to steer a course between presenting a reasonably easy-to-
or are happy just to take the benefits – that actions
understand summary but yet pick out those areas of detail which you’ll
speak louder than words.
probably be most interested in.