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Customer satisfaction index
Helps managers answer: How well are we satisfying our customers?
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Customer satisfaction index vs Employee satisfaction index
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Employee satisfaction index
Helps managers answer: To what extent are our employees happy in their jobs?
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Answer the key performance question: “How well are we satisfying our customers?”
Answer the key performance question: “To what extent are our employees happy in their jobs?”
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Customer satisfaction index
- Balance satisfaction with the economics of delivering it. Exceptional service that costs more than the relationship can support is not sustainable; define which improvements matter to customers and how they affect cost, retention and value.
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- Do not treat a satisfied customer as a guaranteed loyal customer. A competing technology or more attractive offer can make the current product obsolete even when users remain happy with it.
Employee satisfaction index
- Judge survey success by participation, representativeness and visible follow through—not response rate alone. Protect anonymity, publish the main findings, assign actions and report progress. Preserve core questions for trend analysis, while replacing items only when they are ambiguous, misunderstood or no longer useful, and document every change.
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- Do not interpret satisfaction as engagement or performance. Someone may like an easy, well paid job without contributing discretionary effort, while a highly committed employee may express dissatisfaction with barriers to good work. Examine the underlying items and qualitative evidence before deciding what the score means or how to respond.
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