360 degree surveys are very commonly adopted these days by the employers to analyze their employees on various scales. When it comes to measuring and analyzing employees, many companies adopt various software tools. These software tools have a number of built-in features that allow you to analyze your employees.

What qualities do 360 surveys assess?

This method of evaluation comes under the human resource department of the business and is used to analyze the business capabilities of a person's skills and proficiency. 

A 360 survey usually consists of rating of competencies and behaviors, coupled with an opportunity for honest and open-ended feedback.

Confidential, multi-source (360) feedback

360 degree surveys can be very easily implemented to assess challenging issues; even the confidential assessment of an employee can sometimes be evaluated based on the questions raised by his co workers and seniors. With these types of surveys, the subordinate colleagues and other employees get a chance to give a sincere and factual feedback about the performance of the particular individual.

Designing your survey

Programs should be designed by using attributes valuable for your company, and helpful for employee’s development. A good balance of scaled, open-ended and close-ended feedback should be the used while designing the survey. You should also remember that the critical aspect for success is wide participation. Employees should be given adequate opportunity to complete their appraisals.

Benefits

With the help of these surveys, business owners can acquire better feedback and can easily identify the personal development needs. This helps business owners improve the bottom line and customer service.

This survey tool also helps the people to know more about how other employees perceive them and improve communication.