Both in highly challenging and good financial times, organizations need to compete assertively to thrive and grow. Sometimes, business leaders rely totally on their own understanding   to make so many important decisions without having any valuable input from the employees of their company. Your company’s employees and managers have extensive insight and information about your company’s products and services, processes, customers and other important drivers of competitiveness, business performance and profit. Employees know their own performance barriers and what it would take to make the company considerably more profitable and competitive. The most effective and the fastest method to tap the insight and knowledge of your staff is by conducting hr surveys. A survey company can conduct your survey for employees at a portion of the price of the payback that they will provide. Their worth is determined with their knowledge of knowing the right type of question to be asked with the right way of asking them. In addition they know how to optimize employee’s participation in the surveys, they are capable of generating useful results quickly and analyze your findings without bias and provide suggestions for achieving considerable results. Such evaluation surveys or hr surveys should include minimum 40 questions and maximum 70 questions structured in logical topics or sections with the purpose of gathering insight and information about a wide range of issues. Besides asking participants to provide ratings on questions, they should also be able to provide their suggestions and comments after every question. Comprehensive hr surveys typically consist of the following topics: •    The work environment/ work itself/ safety •    Empowerment/ decision making •    Customer service. Quality and work performance •    Innovation •    Procedures •    Reward and recognition •    Training •    Development/opportunity •    Teamwork •    Communications •    Employee engagement •    Senior management effectiveness Conducting hr surveys annually will help in determining that how well is the change being executed and also in identifying new problems that can be changed to bring beneficial solutions for the company.