Robert Thomas Consulting Services, LLC.       

205 Prospect Ave.

Waterloo, IA 50703

(319) 504-3029

Toll Free: 1-877-663-1183

"Pointing You In The Right Direction"

Our Approach to Survey Development

We offer a unique approach to customizable survey design, implementation, and analysis, based on the specific needs of your organization. No matter if you organization consists of only a few employees or several thousand, we have a survey package designed to fit your needs. Using our select-a-scale survey approach, we work with your organization to create a custom designed survey to meet your needs. Robert Thomas Consulting Services uses only those measurement scales whose reliability and validity has been established. We offer several survey package options sure to fit the needs of your organization (see below). You can also choose to develop a fully customized survey where all of the survey items are tailored specifically to the needs of your organization.

Using our select-a-scale approach you can select only those work attitude and behavior scales you are specifically interested in examining. You can choose from a large selection of organizational attitude and behavior assessment scales (1). You select which assessment instruments you feel are most important to your organizations needs and we do the rest: from survey creation to electronic survey administration to data analysis to producing a professional executive summary report for your organization.  

Available survey options include (but not limited to):

• Single choice drop down boxes

• Multiple choice drop down boxes

• Single line text field

• Multi-line text field

• Rank order/Required fields

• Respondent comments

• Matrix presentation style in web surveys

• User defined fields

• Conditional branching

• Optimal response scoring

• Multiple page forms

• Optional multiple response blocking

• Survey data can be collected via web surveys, email, phone, or paper and pencil

Our database of Assessment Scales Includes (Partial Listing):

Job Satisfaction

• Overall job satisfaction

• Job stress

• Job facet satisfaction (coworkers, supervisors, job, work, pay and benefits)

• Career satisfaction

• Satisfaction with work schedule flexibility

Organizational Commitment

• Psychological attachment

• Affective commitment

• Normative commitment

• Continuance commitment

• Career commitment

• Commitment to a parent company

• Supervisor-related commitment

Job Characteristics

• Job demands

• Decision latitude

• Job complexity

• Job cognitions

• Job overload

• Job routinization

• Subjective monotony

• Work control

• Job control

• Job uncertainty

• Job complexity

• Job autonomy

• Production responsibility

• Job interdependence

• Extent of computer use

• Supportive supervision

• Performance appraisal system knowledge

• Developmental experiences

• Empowerment

• Perceived organizational support

• Perceived exclusion

• Perceptions of organizational politics

Job Stress

• Work tension

• Job-related tention

• Burnout

• Work-related depression

• Work-related anxiety

• Work-related irritation

• Frustration with work

• Stress

• Inventory of stressful events

• Commute strain

• Work-specific control

• Industrial relations

Job Roles

• Role conflict

• Role ambiguity

• Role hassles

• Role overload

• Cross-cultural role conflict

• Inter-role conflict

• Goal clarity

• Job role discretion

• Role innovation

Organizational Justice

• Distributive justice

• Procedural justice

• Interactive justice

• Procedural fairness

• Fairness in skill-based pay

• Procedural justice in performance appraisals

• Perceived fairness in goal setting

• Fairness of organizational policy

Work-Family Conflict

• Work interference with family

• Family interference with work

• Job-Family strain

• Career family attitudes

• Job and non-work conflict

• Control over family and work issues

Person-Organization Fit

• Organizational culture profile

• Goal congruence

• Person-organization fit

• Person-environment fit

• Perceived ability job fit

Workplace Behaviors

• Organizational citizenship behaviors

• Ingratiatory behaviors

• Taking charge

• Helping and voice behaviors

• On-the-job behaviors

• Antisocial behaviors

• Victimization in the Workplace

• Workplace bullying

• Deviant behaviors

• Influence tactics

Workplace Values

• Value attainment

• Work values

• Ethical viewpoints

• Individual beliefs in organizational ethics

• Importance of workplace values

Non-Clinical Personality Assessment

Internal and External Wage Surveys

Marketing Research Surveys

(1) The use of copyrighted material will result in additional fees

Basic Survey Package

Price: $3500

services included in package:

• Up to 50 Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (up to 75 questions)

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• One half day (4hrs) on site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives by a consulting professional(1.5 hours)

Bronze Survey Package

Price $6700

services included in package:

• Up to 100 Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (up to 100 questions)

• Up to 10 custom designed questions to answer organizational-specific research questions

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• One full day (8hrs) on site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives about the survey findings by a consulting professional (1.5 hours)

Silver Survey Package

Price $9900

services included in package:

• Up to 200 Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (up to 150 questions)

• Up to 15 custom designed questions to answer organizational-specific research questions

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• One and one-half days (12hrs) on site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives about the survey findings by a consulting professional (1.5 hours)

Gold Survey Package

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services included in package:

• Up to 500 Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (up to 200 questions)

• Up to 25 custom designed questions to answer organizational-specific research questions

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• Use of archival organizational data to assess the relations between existing employee performance levels and work-related attitudes and behaviors.

• On-site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives about the survey findings by a consulting professional (2.5 hours)

Platinum Survey Package

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services included in package:

• On-site Needs Assessment

• Up to 1000 Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (unlimited questions)

• Up to 50 custom designed questions to answer organizational-specific research questions

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• Use of archival organizational data to assess the relations between existing employee performance levels and work-related attitudes and behaviors.

• Time series design (survey administered to employees across 2 organizationally determined time intervals)

• On-site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives about the survey findings by a consulting professional (2.5 hours)

Platinum Elite Survey Package

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services included in package:

• On-site Needs Assessment

• Unlimited Survey Administrations

• Phone/email consultation

• Professional Survey Design (unlimited questions)

• Up to 100 custom designed questions to answer organizational-specific research questions

• Professional Survey Creation

• Professional Survey Administration

• Internet Hosting Service

• Secure database storage

• Raw data CD (without employee identification information)

• Use of archival organizational data to assess the relations between existing employee performance levels and work-related attitudes and behaviors.

• Time series design (survey administered to employees across 2+ organizationally determined time intervals)

• On-site professional consultation (travel expenses not included)

• Written executive summary professionally prepared by Robert Thomas Consulting Services professionals

• Oral presentation to managers/executives about the survey findings by a consulting professional (2.5 hours)

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