Option 1b: Customised/Sector Benchmark

This option works in the same way as our Standard Benchmarking option, except that you can choose which organisations you want to be in your benchmark group. This enables you to evaluate your results against the consolidated responses of a specified group of organisations (e.g. other organisations from your industry sector).

To maintain the confidentiality of the individual organisations in any sector benchmark, there are two important rules:

• At least 5 organisations MUST be included in the Benchmark Group
• No organisation will be included in a Benchmark Group if the number of respondents from that organisation would account for more than 50% of the total number of respondents in that Benchmark Group.

These conditions are applied in order to ensure our guarantee of confidentiality. Any organisation that takes part in this survey has our guarantee of confidentiality. No other organisation will see, or have access to the data submitted by any other individual organisation, and the responses of individual employees will also remain totally confidential. Data submitted will only be used for the purpose of enabling participating organisations to view the consolidated responses of their employees, and benchmarking will involve the consolidated data of participating organisations only, either as a whole or as part of a benchmark group.

Organisations that select Customised/Sector Benchmarking can either select the organisations they would like to include in their benchmark group(s) from the list of Participating Organisations, or contact us to discuss their preferences. In all cases we will advise whether the selected organisations are available for benchmark comparison purposes.

The reporting available under this option is the same as illustrated for Standard Benchmarking.

An example of Customised/Sector Benchmarking at the Section level:

At the Question level:

You can also compare your High- and Low-Rated Questions to your Customised/Sector Benchmark - for example: