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Survey Structure: Phycological Safety Question Set

Phycological safety question set

Updated over 4 months ago

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We recommend basing surveys on our question sets where possible. They have been developed and tested by People Insight’s organisational psychologists so will provide the most meaningful survey data.

Phycological safety

Included

1. My job makes the best use of my skills and abilities

2. People help and support each other here

3. I am comfortable asking colleagues for help

4. Nobody on my team would deliberately act in a way that undermines my efforts

5. Senior leaders are open and approachable

6. Senior leaders make the effort to listen to staff

Learning

1. We regularly introduce improvements to how we do things here

2. I am encouraged to suggest new ideas for improvements

3. My manager makes me feel that my ideas and opinions matter

4. If I were to make a mistake, my manager would be supportive in helping me learn from it

5. My manager encourages an environment where we can challenge each other to continuously improve quality and standards

Contributing

1. In my team we try to make sure that everyone feels included

2. When something goes wrong, we work together to resolve it

3. My opinion is sought on decisions that affect my work

4. I feel able to bring up problems and concerns at work

Challenging

1. I can voice a contrary opinion without fear of negative consequences

2. It is safe to take an appropriate risk in my team

3. I feel comfortable to speak up and constructively challenge the way things are done

Free response (‘comment’) question

1. What more could we do to create an environment where everyone feels able to contribute?

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