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Survey for Decision Making Process at First Level Management

1.

Thank you for agreeing to take part in this survey. It should only take 4-5 minutes to complete. All answers will be kept in the strictest confidentiality. Your feedback is important.

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1.Which industry is your company active in?
2.Which of the following best describes your role?
3.How important are the following types of decisions regularly made by first level managers in your company? Please select one response for each decision type.
Very Important
Somewhat Important
Neutral
Not Very Important
Not At All Important
Preparing / Updating Company Procedures
Time Management and Defining Priorities
Compliance and Risk Management
Identifying the Indicators of Budgeting & Forecasting
Budgeting & Forecasting
Workforce Planning (i.e. as work schedules, annual leaves, absenteeism, work-life balance, succession, etc.)
Hiring
Performance Appraisals
Rewards and Recognition (i.e. wages, promotions, premiums, project bonuses, etc.)
Learning & Development
Employer – Employee Dispute Resolutions
Redundancies / Firings
Operation / Production Planning
Quality Issues
Inventory Optimization
Vendor Selection
Purchase Orders
Prepare and/or Approve Contracts
Choosing Delivery Methods and Execution
Customer Acquisition & Loyalty Programs
Customer Complaint Resolutions
4.How often do first level managers use each of the following decision making techniques?
Very often
Often
Sometimes
Rarely
Never
Not Familiar
Break Even analysis
What If analysis
Pair-wise Comparison analysis
Intuitive analysis
Cash Flow analysis
Pareto analysis (80/20 analysis)
Cost – Benefit analysis
Ishikawa/Fishbone/Root-Cause analysis
5.Which of the following tools, if any, do first level managers in your company utilize for decision making?
6.Which platforms do first level managers use the tools or software on? Please check all that apply
7.What, if anything, do you like most about the tools your first level managers utilize?
8.What, if any, issues or problems exist with any of the tools first level managers in your company utilize?
9.How are the results of first level managers' decisions measured? Please check all that apply.
10.What range of financial decisions are first level managers authorized to take on a sole basis?
Please take a moment to read the following concept regarding a decision making tool that is intended to aid first-level managers:

SafeLink is a mobile/web app providing first-level managers with an interactive toolkit that combines business analytics with management techniques. SafeLink enables these management/analysis techniques for first-level managers' daily operational use by a carefully designed simplification and easy-to-navigate user experience. Using SafeLink, first-level managers get access to exercises that will easily formulate business decisions - otherwise possible only via a rigorous training/education, measure them alongside the historic and live data and share across the organization when desired.
11.Would your company utilize such an app within their decision making process that was just described?
12.What do you like most about the decision making tool described?
13.What do you like least about the decision making tool described?
14.Given the features this decision making tool includes, indicate how important you might find the following features?
Very important
Somewhat important
Neutral
Not very important
Not at all important
Multi-device (accessible via desktop, laptop and mobile)
Mobile-first (mobile device access)
Simplified design (little to no time for getting accustomed)
Direct measuring (visible correlation for savings/profit)
Approval (requesting customized approval across the organization)
BI/data aggregation (feeding historic company data with live data)
15.What other insights would you like to be added in this decision making tool?
16.In which city and state do you work?
17.In which generation do you consider yourself belonging?