Meaning of Work Barometer for larger communities (10 people or more)

Benefits

• The Meaning of Work Barometer gives you a clear overview of which factors contributing to meaningful, engaging and fulfilling work are in good shape in your community and where there is room for improvement.
• The tool also provides insight into the factors that influence work motivation and work wellbeing more generally, which can help you support a work atmosphere that reinforces them.
• The tool boosts not just the understanding of the community lead (e.g. supervisor, HR specialist) of their staff, but also the mutual understanding among the community (e.g. employees). Both factors are important for inclusive, community-based development work.
• The tool includes clear interpretation guidelines that help you reflect on the thoughts the community’s Vocational Meaning and Fulfilment profile evokes and consider what kinds of actions it may call for.

Note that this community tool requires at least 10 respondents to protect individual privacy. If you have less than 10 members in your community, check out the barometer for small groups and communities. 

1. Getting started: Activate the tool via the link below. Activation means sending the survey link to your community, monitoring the response rate, reminding your community about the survey, and downloading the report for the community to use.

2. Request links: As the person activating the tool, you must communicate it to your community. You will receive an email with your community-specific survey link and a report link to your community’s Vocational Meaning and Fulfilment profile, which includes its interpretation guidelines. 

   Request the survey and report links

3. Share the survey: Before sending the survey link to others, complete the survey yourself using the link you received. This is a core requirement for using the tool. Then share the survey link with the message template to your chosen response group (e.g. personnel, team, coaching group). The survey link remains valid for 21 days after you receive it. However, you can set a separate deadline for completing the survey in the message that you send to the respondents.
4. Monitor the response rate: Make sure that anyone who you intend to share the result report with (management, supervisors) also completes the survey. This enables them to grasp the results and the accompanying interpretation guidelines more quickly and clearly. Each respondent should take the survey on their own. This must be done in one session, as the survey cannot be returned to later. It takes 5–15 minutes to take the survey. After completing the survey, the respondents will see their own Vocational Meaning and Fulfilment profile and its interpretation guide on their device’s screen. Personal profiles are not delivered to anyone else. The tool asks respondents to download the profile on their device, as it cannot be retrieved later.
5. Review the results:  Once enough responses has been received, you can review your community’s Vocational Meaning and Fulfilment profile through the report link that you received earlier. The results report includes both interpretation guidelines and a ready made PowerPoint slide set that you can use to review the results together with the members of your community. The report link is valid for 60 days, during which you must download the result report, interpretation guidelines, and the PowerPoint slide set. After the time limit, the material is permanently deleted and is not recoverable.
6. Discuss the results in the group: The tool’s supplementary materials allow you to review the profile with the community and see which dimensions of the profile show a poor, good, or above‑expectation meaning–fulfilment fit — in other words, how well what the members of your community expect from work aligns with what they experience in their current job.

Responding to the survey takes place anonymously. Your answers are collected in the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health’s Louhin service. The Institute cannot identify individual respondents.