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Management & Leadership vocabulary · Motivation and Feedback

Pulse survey

Meaning in management & leadership, with examples

nounCommon term

In management & leadership, pulse survey means: A brief survey repeated regularly to track employees' views or experiences on selected issues.

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How it is used

Use for frequent focused checks; it is usually narrower than a comprehensive annual engagement survey.

Example sentences

  1. A monthly pulse survey tracked whether staff understood the new reporting arrangements.

    Repeated short checks reveal how views change during implementation.

  2. The pulse survey used the same three questions so teams could compare results over time.

    Consistent questions support comparison across successive survey rounds.

Common collocations

  • run a pulse survey
  • monthly pulse survey
  • employee engagementHow committed, involved and enthusiastic employees feel about their work and their organisation, which affects how much effort they put in and whether they stay.
  • feedbackComments on how well someone has done a piece of work or behaved, given so that they can keep doing what works and improve what does not.

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