A personal GAIS survey is a well-being survey that you complete based on your own experiences and assessments. Immediately after completing the survey, you receive your personal GAIS report with insights and concrete action recommendations based specifically on your responses.
What is a GAIS report?
In GAIS, every employee receives their own personal report with insights into their individual well-being and tools to improve it. Involving employees through the personal report creates engagement in the process and shared responsibility for well-being.
Your personal GAIS report is based on your responses and consists of two parts.
The first part highlights key insights and selected results and links them to concrete action recommendations. You also gain access to targeted articles and recommendations that can help strengthen your own work engagement. The examples below are taken from a full GAIS survey. In a factor survey, the report follows the same structure but focuses on one factor and its dimensions, and the colours will therefore differ.
The second part of the report provides an overall overview of your scores and responses.
The image below shows that the employee scores highest on the Balance factor, indicating that their work feels important, relevant, and meaningful. This is a strong driver of both motivation and well-being. The focus here is on maintaining these positive patterns by continuously paying attention to what gives the employee energy and a sense of purpose in working life.
The following image shows that Colleagues is the factor on which the employee scores lowest. This factor may affect overall work engagement and is a relevant area to address if the employee wishes to improve. Based on the results, a learning programme is recommended, providing concrete input and tools to strengthen this specific area.
Are my responses anonymous?
Yes. Your responses are anonymous. For company-wide surveys, a minimum of five responses is required before a collective report can be generated. With an anonymity threshold of five responses, GAIS is positioned at the more conservative end compared to other well-being surveys.
Why you should measure employee engagement
There can be several reasons for completing a GAIS survey. For example, you may be:
- invited by your employer because the organisation is focusing on employee well-being
- invited by another party ahead of a conversation about your working life (for example, if you are unemployed)
- motivated by your own initiative and curiosity about your working life – perhaps because you are not thriving optimally, are considering a job change, or simply want a clear picture of what your current level of work engagement looks like
Work engagement refers to well-being at work
It describes a deeper sense of satisfaction, motivation, and energy in your work-life. While engagement at work is experienced individually, it is both concrete and measurable. Research underlying GAIS shows that work engagement is primarily influenced by seven key factors. These factors may not be equally important to everyone, but together they capture the core elements that shape work engagement.
The seven factors are:
Meaning
Colleagues
Influence
Results
Balance
Mastery
Leadership
Read more about work engagement and the seven factors here
Read more about the research model behind GAIS here
Note: If you are invited to a factor survey, the survey focuses in depth on one of the seven factors – for example, the Meaning factor.
What questions will I be asked?
GAIS questions
You will be presented with a series of questions about work engagement and the seven factors. The number of questions depends on the type of survey selected. In a factor survey, all questions relate to the same factor.
Organisation-specific questions
If you are invited by your workplace, the survey may also include questions formulated by the organisation itself.
Free-text comments
You have the opportunity to elaborate on your answers using your own words and reflections. The comments are anonymous, and the organisation decides whether they can be viewed by HR, your immediate manager, or both.
How long does it take?
A full GAIS survey takes approximately 9 minutes
A Quick GAIS survey takes approximately 2 minutes
A factor survey takes approximately 4–6 minutes
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