During my own career in management I was involved in many employee engagement surveys, both as an employee taking surveys and a member of a management team communicating results and implementing changes that might be forthcoming.

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Those include growth opportunities, compensation, benefits, work-life balance, career advancement, senior management, job security and whether the employee would recommend the company to others.

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Elaine Varelas, managing partner at Keystone Partners, a Boston-based career-management firm, consulted for a company where a young employee strongly voiced her pro-choice views in the lunchroom while talking about the 2008 presidential campaign.

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