A guide to global employee engagement surveys in multiple languages

Conducting global employee engagement surveys in multiple languages requires the right tools. Let's have a look at how Eletive can help.
Asking your employees about their engagement and employee experience can feel daunting even if your organization is small.
But what if your employees live in different countries and speak different languages? Then you need a tool made for global employee engagement surveys.
Table of contents
Benefits of global employee engagement surveys
Pulse surveys in multiple languages
KIOSK functionality
How Eletive can help
Benefits of global employee engagement surveys
Measuring employee engagement is an important first step in working proactively with employee engagement and employee experience. And the more internationally distributed your workforce is, the more you rely on employee surveys to collect feedback. How else are you going to get an overview of your organisation's temperature and level of engagement?
If you don't take a systematic approach to measuring employee engagement, you will only have the "hunches" and "gut feeling" of different stakeholders to rely on. Not a very solid foundation for strategic business decisions, in other words!
Related reading: Employee engagement survey questions–what to ask and why
Benefits of global employee engagement surveys include:
You get the complete picture. With smart surveys and user-friendly dashboards showing intuitive heatmaps of your whole organisation, you know exactly what is going on – and where you need to focus your attention.
You can leverage benchmark and monitor progress. Using a platform like Eletive, you have access to global employee engagement benchmark data. This means you can use your collected data to compare different segments in your organisations, based on any HR data, to understand what parts are working and where there is room for improvement.
You can make data-driven decisions. Global employee engagement surveys take all guesswork out of the equation. By turning data collected into valuable insights, you can use it to inform your business strategies and action plans.
A better employee experience. Many employees feel most comfortable using their native language. A multilingual survey allows everyone in your organisation to read and answer the surveys in their preferred language.
Pulse surveys in multiple languages

With Eletive, employees can easily choose in what language they prefer to answer the survey.
If your organisation operates in many countries, you need to provide all employees a way to answer the employee engagement surveys in their own language. The Eletive surveys are multi-lingual and support more than 30 different languages.
KIOSK functionality
In some countries and some industries, it's less common for all employees to have access to a company phone, computer, and company email. Therefore, Eletive offers a functionality called Eletive KIOSK, commonly used for employees working in warehouses or production.
When using KIOSK mode, neither phone number nor email is needed. Instead, each employee receives a unique code that they can use to answer the survey on the device of your selection. That device can, for example, be a shared tablet or computer that everyone can access. Employees simply enter their code and answer the survey.
How Eletive can help you measure and increase global employee engagement
Eletive is a modern People Success Platform. We provide all the features you need to build a workplace where people thrive and perform at their best.
SMART SURVEYS
Our adaptive machine-learning algorithm creates smart surveys for maximum impact. Questions and advice are developed by psychologists and based on the latest research.
PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT AND AGILE GOALS
By bringing survey responses, 1-on-1 meetings, OKR planning, and SMART goals into one unified platform, we make it easy for you to align around common processes and goals.
SELF-LEADERSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Our unique emphasis on self-leadership changes the organizational dynamic and empowers everyone to help build a great company culture – together.
Recommended reading: Best practices for employee engagement surveys