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B. Employment and Training
Employee Structure
1.
What percentage of your labor force is unionized?
None
1% to 24%
25% to 49%
50% to 74%
75% to 100%
How many employees currently work at this establishment?
1 to 5
6 to 10
11 to 15
16 to 20
21 to 25
26 to 50
51 or more
2.
Full-time
3.
Part-time
4.
Temporary
How many employees worked at this establishment three years ago?
5.
6.
7.
How many employees (estimated) will work at this establishment three years from now?
8.
9.
10.
If you reported any part-time employees, how many are:
11.
Seasonal
21 or more
12.
Year round
13.
If seasonal, when are your busy seasons?
(Select all that apply.)
Spring
Summer
Fall
Winter
14.
15.
Did your firm's employment change over the past five years?
Yes
No
16.
If yes, please check the three (3) main reasons for the employment change over the past five years.
Technological changes
Change in management
Growth in demand, or lack of demand
Number of contracts
Business did not exist five years ago
Improved or decreased efficiency
Government regulation
Increased competition
Renovation/expansion
New products/services
Entered new markets
Change in subcontracting
Corporate decisions/policies
Other:
17.
What is your current employment hiring state?
Increasing workforce
Downsizing
Stable
How many unpaid family members work at this establishment?
1
2
3
4
5 or more
18.
Currently
19.
Three years ago
20.
Three years from now (estimate)
Management
21.
What is your highest grade of year of school you have completed?
Less than High School Diploma or GED
High School Diploma or GED
Associates or other 2 year college degree
Bachelors degree
Master’s degree or beyond
22.
Prior to opening (joining) this business, had you owned or operated another business?
Recruiting
23.
What resources are you currently using to locate new employees?
Ad in metro-wide papers
Ad in local community papers
Placement office of four-year or two-year colleges
Private search firms
Referrals from existing employees
Job service
Temporary agency
Hire our own apprentices
Promote from within
Local job fair
Internet/World Wide Web
List other:
Wages and Benefits
24.
Does your company provide benefits to its employees?
Yes (please answer questions about benefits)
No (you may skip the rest of benefit questions)
25.
If yes, what percentage of health care premiums do you pay?
Less than 20%
Between 20 and 40%
Between 41 and 60%
Between 61 and 80%
Greater than 80%
26.
Would you be willing to participate in a collective health care plan sponsored by a local organization, such as a Chamber of Commerce?
27.
Please share the reasons for interest or non-interest in a collective health plan.
(Provide up to three responses.)
Training
28.
What types of General Skills training do your current employees need?
Basic math
Reading and writing
Interpersonal communications
Basic accounting
English as a second language
Specialized equipment operations
Other :
29.
What types of Managerial Skills training do your current employees need?
Financial Management
Record keeping
Inventory control
Business planning
Employee management
30.
What types of Professional Skills training do your current employees need?
Sales
Marketing
Customer service
31.
What types of Computer Skills training do your current employees need?
Word-processing
Spreadsheets
Computer-aided design
Graphic design and layout
Database management
Computer system installation and maintenance
Computer programming
32.
What specialized Medical Skills do your employees need, if any?
33.
What other Specialized Skills or Specialized Equipment Skills training do your current employees need?
34.
Do your employees require training in any of the following areas?
Basic workforce skills (e.g., writing, communication skills, team playing, diversity)
Office machine use (e.g., typewriter, calculator, copy machine, Dictaphone)
Computer use (e.g., keyboarding, software)
Management skills
Using new machinery or technology
35.
How do you currently train your employees?
Do not provide any employee training
Self-taught (manuals, videos, training materials)
In-house training (one-on-one by supervisor or co-worker, training department classes, etc.)
Send employees to workshops
Contract with private vendors
Contract with public vendors (technical colleges, etc.)
On-the-job training (a government supported program)
Apprenticeships
Distance learning (correspondence, the Internet, TV)
36.
Please indicate which local schools or training organizations your company uses for employee training.
No outside school or organization is used
School A
School B
School C
Organization A
Organization B
37.
What types of training programs have been outsourced to a school or training organization?
None. All training is internally provided.
General skills
Managerial skills
Professional skills
Computer skills
Specialized skills
38.
In which of the following outreach programs would your firm be interested?
Participating in career exploration or shadowing programs for area high school students
Participating in mentoring programs for area high school students
Participating in mentoring programs for tech college or university students
Serving as an apprenticeship site
Providing summer employment for students and/or teachers
Collaborating with other businesses in training students and/or employees (providing space, equipment, or resource people)
Offering training to members of other organizations, such as schools and companies
Serving on a school advisory committee
39.
Please check which of the following best describes your company's budget, in respect to employee training.
We do not budget for individual employee training
$1 - $49 per year/per employee
$50 - $199 per year/per employee
$200 - $999 per year/per employee
$1,000 - $1999 per year/per employee
$2,000+ per year/per employee
40.
Check each area where your company might use an external training service
Product development processes
Lean manufacturing practices
Workplace skills (comm.., teamwork, decision making, etc.)
Manufacturing techniques
Plant floor management processes
Inventory management practices
Quality programs
Management training
Environmental compliance
IT/e-business fundamentals
41.
Check your three most preferred formats for staff training from outside providers
(Select three.)
Customized off-site training
Customized on-site training
Multi-day conference
Partial-day workshop
One-day seminar
Web-based training
Series of daily classes
Series of weekly classes
Self-study printed material
42.
Please list three training seminars that would benefit your current employees.
Location and Housing
43.
If more than 50% of your employees live outside the COMMUNITY, please indicate why you think this is the case.
44.
If your workforce expanded by 10%, would there be affordable housing for these workers within 30 minutes of your place of business?
Uncertain
From your perspective as a businessperson, please rate housing opportunities in this community for OWNED homes.
Excellent
Above average
Average
Below average
Very poor
45.
Quality
46.
Availability
47.
Affordability
48.
Location
From your perspective as a businessperson, please rate housing opportunities in this community for RENTAL housing.
49.
50.
51.
52.
How many paid employees currently work at this establishment?
53.
Year-round full-time
54.
Year-round part-time
55.
Summer seasonal full-time
56.
Summer seasonal part-time
57.
Winter seasonal full-time
58.
Winter seasonal part-time
How many paid employees worked at this establishment three years ago?
59.
60.
61.
62.
63.
64.
How many paid employees (estimated) will work at this establishment three years from now?
65.
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
How many of your current jobs are held by students?
Specify the number of high school and/or college students.
71.
High school
72.
College
How many of your jobs three years ago were held by students?
73.
74.
How many of your jobs in three years (estimated) will be held by students?
75.
76.
Do you expect the number of employees you have in each of the following categories to increase, stay the same, or decrease over the next three years?
Increase
Stay the Same
Decrease
77.
General labor
78.
General production labor
79.
Precision production/speciality skills
80.
Clerical
81.
82.
Professional/management
83.
Temporary/contract employees
84.
Youth employees
Please estimate the number of your full-time employees by occupation.
85.
86.
Professional or technical
87.
Marketing or sales
88.
Administrative support
89.
Agriculture, forestry or fishing
90.
Service occupations
91.
Precision production
92.
Operator or laborer
Please estimate the average hourly wage of your full-time employees by occupation.
Less than $8.00 per hour
$8.00 to $9.99 per hour
$10.00 to 14.99 per hour
$15.00 to $19.99 per hour
$20.00 to $24.99 per hour
$25.00 to $29.99 per hour
$30.00 or more per hour
93.
94.
95.
96.
97.
98.
99.
100.
Please estimate the number of your part-time employees by occupation.
101.
102.
103.
104.
105.
106.
107.
108.
Overall, how do you rate your employees with respect to their work attitude and quality?
Poor
109.
Attitude toward work
110.
Quality of work
How would you rate the local labor force?
111.
112.
Quantity
113.
114.
Stability
Does your company have problems recruiting employees in the following categories?
Unsure
115.
116.
117.
Maintenance
118.
Janitorial
119.
Technician
120.
121.
Professional
Recruiting (1)
122.
List any other types of employees (not listed above) that your company has difficulty recruiting.
123.
If you answered "yes" above, check the items below that best describe the nature of your recruiting problem.
Poor work attitudes
Inadequate labor skills
High cost of training employees
Competition for seasonal or part-time employees
High wage rates for labor
Workers will not migrate into the area
Benefits
Health insurance
Paid vacation time
Paid sick leave
Profit sharing
Retirement/401K contribution
Uniforms/uniform allowance
Child care/dependent benefits
124.
Which of the following benefits are available to your full-time employees?
125.
Which of the following benefits are available to your part-time employees?
What is the average starting hourly wage paid to full-time employees in each category?
126.
127.
General production
128.
Precision production/specialty skilled
129.
130.
131.
What is the average wage for workers with at least 3-years experience in each category?
132.
133.
134.
135.
136.
137.
What is the average wage for each of the following types of workers?
138.
Full-time year-round
139.
Part-time year-round
140.
Full-time seasonal
141.
Part-time seasonal
Benefits by type of employee
Health plan
Retirement
Vacation
Sick leave
142.
Which of the following benefits do you offer to full-time year-round employees?
143.
Which of the following benefits do you offer to part-time year-round employees?
144.
Which of the following benefits do you offer to full-time seasonal employees?
145.
Which of the following benefits do you offer to part-time seasonal employees?
Please rate the usefulness of the training programs your company has used.
146.
Education/Training Program A
147.
Education/Training Program B
148.
Education/Training Program C
149.
Education/Training Program D
Please indicate where most of your employees live.
150.
Within 5 miles of your business location
151.
Within 5 to 20 miles of your business location
152.
More than 20 miles from your business location
Please estimate the percentage of your employees that live in the following areas.
153.
Area A
154.
Area B
155.
Area C
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