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Sometimes, people problems can't be solved by technological means. Sometimes you just have to talk to people. A while back I was contemplating introducing a sma
by hliyan 7y ago
Sometimes, people problems can't be solved by technological means. Sometimes you just have to talk to people. A while back I was contemplating introducing a small app for team members to express sentiments (whether they're feeling stressed, satisfied, unappreciated, worried etc), but I eventually decided that nothing beats a private conversation.
- catalogia 7y agoThe theory behind managers soliciting anonymous comments from workers is that this cuts through preference falsification. Preference falsification is when somebody lies about their beliefs or opinions, often due to perceived social pressure or lack of trust. Preference falsification is a real problem, not just in business settings but throughout the broad domain of human interaction. Unfortunately soliciting anonymous comments is often ineffective at combating preference falsification because when a boss tells their workers that comments are anonymous, the workers simply don't believe it (and often they're right not to.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification
- lobotryas 7y agoI love getting “anonymous” quarterly employee surveys that have a unique ID embedded in the URL. That’s not even trying.
- lawnchair_larry 7y agoThe anonymous ID is fine, and not the way you’re going to be outed. They aren’t lying to you. A manager of a handful of employees generally knows what their employees sound like, what issues are important to them, and knows which ones tend to go against the grain.
- Thorrez 7y agoThey generally want some way to make sure the same person isn't filling out the survey multiple times.
- cousin_it 7y agoThere's a deeper problem: anonymous commenting doesn't prevent tactical commenting, in the same way that anonymous voting doesn't prevent tactical voting (Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem).