Motivation - engineers

Thank you for taking the time to fill in this survey!

It won't take more than 15 minutes of your time - it's a sacrifice worth doing for the sake of the better understanding of the role that motivation plays in the software development process. After the questions there is a field you can use to leave some details that will be used ONLY to send you the final results, along with an elaborate study on the subject.

The company field is for statistical purposes only and is optional but it will help if you fill it in. Total anonymity is guaranteed, it will be used only to calculate metrics like number of companies involved in the study.

Your name Company

What is your job title?

What's the total number of people employed by your company?

What motivatational practices does your management employ

1. Training based on your preferences for personal development path

2. Taking your preference into account when assigning tasks

3. Systematic feedback of your satisfaction with the working conditions in the form of surveys, interviews and the like

4. Financial rewards based on individual performance (bonuses for outstanding personal achivements)

5. Financial rewards based on team performance (bonuses for outstanding team achievements)

6. Financial rewards not based on performance (bonuses for holidays or when the company is doing well)

7. Non-financial rewards (some formal praise for achievement or any other form of recognition)

8. Establishing and encouraging team identity (team slogans, mugs, t-shirts, plaques and other items with team name, logo or slogan)

9. Team-building excercises focusing on group problem solving

10. Team events, focusing on pastime and entertainment

11. Granting enough time for addressing technical challenges and entertaining new technologies that are not directly related to the current tasks

12. Formal performance reviews

13. On-site entertainment, like table tennis, pool, foosball, darts and the like

14. Involvement in determining schedules

15. Involvement in making decisions that affect you, like choosing projects, deciding on equipment ot be bought, etc.

Which of these practices do you consider the most efficient? List the top five in order of perceived efficiency

Rate your understanding of how your task fits in the larger landscape, and the purpose of the project in general

No idea

Vague understanding

Some understanding

Fair understanding

Familiarity

Rate your understanding of the reasons behind the deadlines that you are supposed to hit

No idea

Vague understanding

Some understanding

Fair understanding

Familiarity

How often do you have firm priorities over the project's primary objectives (e.g. usability, quick development, performance, design)

Never

Occasionally

Often

Most times

Always

Please pick the top 3 factors that you consider most motivating for you

Responsibility

Work itself (to be challenging, interesting)

Recognition (to receive praises if you do exceptionally good)

Possibility for growth

Interpersonal relations

Achievement (to define goals, to attend them, then to define new, even more ambitious ones)

Salary

Job security

Status (as in social status)

Work conditions

Have you worked overtime?

Yes

If so, did you get extra payment?

Yes

How did this affect your motivation?

Terribly

Bad

No effect

Well

Have you ever had any superstars in your team?

Yes

Please write a few benefits that the superstars bring to the organization (you can leave the field blank if you can't think of any, or just enter a single one)

What could make you leave a company

Excesive pressure

Unchallenging work

Lack of recognition

Not being allowed to use latest technologies

No opportunity for growth

Improper workplace conditions (e.g. inadequate lighting, too much noise)

Poor equipment, management ignoring calls to upgrade it

Insufficient sallary

Sallary delayed grossly or repeatedly

Request for a deserved raise being rejected

Getting a harsh reproach when you feel you've done your job right

A number of co-workers that you used to get along well with left

Desire to change the atmosphere

How many days of training (or whole day equivalents for part-time trainings) did your company sponsor for you for the past year?

How many days a year do you suggest will be appropriate?

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