24th January 2013, 12:45 AM
kevin wooldridge Wrote:I also think that you should ask a totally subjective question such as 'Taking everything into consideration, are you happy with your lot?' perhaps with a scale of 1-10...
Kevin - i don't mean this snarkily - but, if this survey is directed at unit managers/directors etc - i strongly suspect that their perceptions of happiness will be at some odds with that of those who are on the trowel edge; and while not necessarily at odds with, certainly not the same as those of freelancers. Would this question in such a case be even appropriate.
It's a bit like going to Davos and asking whether all things considered they feel that we're all in it together.
I hope that the CPD survey to be launched shortly by Diggers' Forum will be the place to ask questions like this and many, many more, and to get answers from a majority of practioners across the discipline rather than just from those who are running units.
After all, the skills loss, the low pay, the employing of people under less than appropriate conditions, the under-training; all these things, and worse have been seen under the watch of those managers and directors. And rarely has anything been said about the failings, apart from by some members of DF and mein host.
We at DF will be looking for a few people to beta-test the survey before it goes online. PM me if you're interested. It will require a dummy run as well as the real thing.
My final words will be to agree with many of the contributors; but to add that to profile the profession we need to find out what the majority are experiencing, not the minority. The latter is nothing more than the Forbes Rich List, or Debrett's or Who's Who. Handy, but unrepresentative.
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