Viva People Science survey templates and items

Microsoft Viva Glint analyzed over 350 million employee survey responses to determine the employee experiences that were most predictive of engagement - happiness at work and willingness to recommend the company. We uncover key driver themes and use these themes to build survey templates.

The result of our examination of the focus of engagement is a modernized framework (early 2022) called People Success Elements. These elements are six constructs: Purpose, Clarity, Growth, Empowerment, Connection, and Wellbeing. The constructs summarize the fundamental needs and expectations that are most critical to a person’s holistic life experience - not only their work experience - and that best shape an environment for high engagement.

People Success Elements

In addition to evidence of a strong linkage between the People Success Elements and engagement, Viva People Science also finds relationships with other important outcomes that become part of our survey templates. Key findings include:

People Success Element	Relationship to employee engagement at work
Purpose	Employees feeling a sense of purpose are 120% more likely to recommend their company as a great place to work.
Clarity	54% of employees lacking role clarity reported burnout in 2021, compared with 38% of employees with role clarity.
Growth	Employees who see opportunities to grow are three times more likely to say they'll remain with the company in two years.
Empowerment	Employees empowered at work are 2.4 times more likely to be happy at work.
Connection	Employees with a strong sense of belonging are six times more likely to be engaged.
Wellbeing	Employees who feel cared for at work are over three times as likely to be happy at work and recommend working for their organization, an increase of over 35% since 2020. Flexible work arrangements, inclusive workplaces, and work-life balance are the fastest growing priorities for job candidates since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

Read The Elements of People Success blog. Using Viva Glint solutions, our customers gain powerful insights on what drives employee engagement and can use those insights to build towards their own People Success culture.

Terminology

This terminology helps you understand the Microsoft Viva People Science methodology for building your survey:

Term	Definition
Core Drivers (also referred to as Recommended Drivers)	Items hand-picked by Viva People Science for customer use are included on templates. These items are the strongest predictors of the key outcome intended for a survey program. We recommend customers to consider these items first when building a survey and to consider them as the best practice “short list.”
Other Drivers	Most Viva Glint programs have “other” drivers, too - items that are strong drivers of engagement that we want customers to be aware of but aren't part of the core/recommended driver selection for that program.
Survey item	A question or statement posed to a survey participant. Search for an item by a driver keyword, such as "manager," "culture," or "change management."
Validated item	An item in the Viva Glint Question Library with added rigor and research behind it. Some Viva Glint templates are composed of all validated items, but there are cases where a nonvalidated survey - a survey with one or more nonvalidated items - is templated.