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Employee Motivation Drivers & Drains Diagnostic
Diagnoses what fuels and what erodes employee motivation across autonomy, mastery, purpose, recognition, and rewards, then uses an AI follow-up to uncover the specific moment motivation dropped and what would restore it.
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14 questions · ~7 min
Q02
Opinion ScaleRequired
Overall, how motivated do you feel at work these days?
Scale: 1 – 10
Min:Not motivated at allMax:Extremely motivated
Q03
MatrixRequired
How much do the following statements reflect your day-to-day experience?
5 rows × 5 columns
- I have real control over how I do my work
- I'm regularly challenged to grow and improve my skills
- I understand how my work connects to a larger purpose
- My contributions are noticed and acknowledged
- I feel fairly rewarded for the effort I put in
Columns: Strongly disagree · Disagree · Neutral · Agree · Strongly agree
Q04
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required
Which of these matter most to your motivation, and which matter least?
- Autonomy over how I do my work
- Opportunities to develop mastery and skills
- A clear sense of purpose in my work
- Recognition from managers or peers
- Fair pay and rewards
- Trust from my manager
- Career growth opportunities
- Positive relationships with coworkers
Pick best & worst per setBest:Matters mostWorst:Matters least
Q05
Multiple ChoiceRequired
In the last 30 days, how often did you feel genuinely energized by your work (not just busy)?
- Never
- A few times
- About weekly
- Most days
- Every day
Q06
Multiple Choice
In the last 3 months, what has most drained your motivation?
- Lack of control over my own decisions
- Repetitive work with no room to grow
- Unclear purpose or shifting priorities
- Feeling invisible or unappreciated
- Pay or rewards that feel unfair
- Poor management or lack of trust
- Nothing has drained my motivation
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired
When you do great work, how consistently is it recognized?
Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Almost neverMax:Almost always
Q08
Rating ScaleRequired
How would you rate your manager's ability to support your motivation day to day?
Range: 1 – 5
Min:Very poorMax:Excellent
Q09
Point AllocationRequired
If you had 100 points to allocate, how would you split them across what would most improve your motivation right now?
- More autonomy/control
- More growth/skill-building opportunities
- Clearer purpose/connection to mission
- More recognition
- Better pay/rewards
Allocate 100 points
Q10
AI Interview
Probe the specific moment or situation in the last month when the respondent's motivation was highest and lowest — anchor on concrete events, not general attitudes. If they flagged recognition or rewards as a drain, ask for a specific example of when they felt under-recognized or unfairly rewarded, and what a fair response would have looked like. If they say nothing drains them, gently test that by asking about a recent frustrating week.
Q11
Long Text
What's one change your manager or company could make that would meaningfully boost your motivation?
Q12
Multiple Choice
How long have you been in your current role?
- Less than 6 months
- 6 months to 2 years
- 2-5 years
- More than 5 years
- Prefer not to say
Q13
Multiple Choice
Which best describes your level?
- Individual contributor
- People manager
- Senior leader
- Prefer not to say
Q14
Message
Thank you for your honesty! Your responses will be combined with others (never attributed to you individually) to shape how we support motivation across the team.
What’s included
AI follow-ups
Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.
Attention checks
Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.
AI-drafted copy
Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.
Auto report
Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.
How it compares
We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.
Why this template
- Goes beyond static rating questions with an AI follow-up interview block that probes the specific moment in the last month when motivation dropped and what would restore it — something no static form can do.
- Combines quantitative diagnostics (rating-scale, matrix, best-worst trade-off, point-allocation, rating) with qualitative depth (open-text, AI follow-up) to cover autonomy, mastery, purpose, recognition, and rewards in one flow.
- Uses a best-worst trade-off and point-allocation allocation to force real trade-offs between motivators, rather than letting every driver score '5/5 important' as flat rating scales tend to do.
- Every response is automatically quality-scored and rolled into an auto-generated report, and respondents are told upfront their answers 'will be combined with others (never attributed)' — building trust that increases honest disclosure.
Jotform
Employee Motivation Survey Form TemplateA ready-to-field form template built on Jotform's drag-and-drop form builder, aimed at quickly collecting motivation-related feedback. It's a static question set you can customize and embed, not a diagnostic instrument with built-in follow-up logic. Good for teams that just need a simple, brandable form fast.
What it does well
- Fast to deploy and customize via a familiar drag-and-drop form builder
- Easy embedding/sharing as part of Jotform's broader forms ecosystem
Where it falls short
- Fixed question set with no adaptive AI follow-up to probe individual answers
- No per-response quality scoring or automated analytical report generation
- No voice-based interview option or guided task/screen-share capability
QuestionPro
Employee motivation survey questions + sample questionnaire templateThis page reads more like a guide/question-bank with a sample questionnaire than a single fielding-ready instrument — it's meant to help you build your own survey from suggested questions. Useful as a reference for question ideas, but you'd still need to assemble and configure the actual survey logic yourself.
What it does well
- Broad library of sample questions to draw from for motivation topics
- Backed by an established enterprise survey platform with reporting/dashboard tools
Where it falls short
- Presented as a question list/guide rather than a turnkey diagnostic flow
- No adaptive AI interviewing to dig into why a specific motivation-driver score is low
- No transparent, published interview-prompt methodology
SurveyMonkey
Employee Motivation Survey Questions & TemplateA pre-built, fielding-ready template from a major survey platform, likely including SurveyMonkey's methodologist-reviewed questions and standard analytics. It covers motivation broadly but relies on fixed multiple-choice/rating questions rather than dynamic probing of individual respondent situations.
What it does well
- Polished, ready-to-send template backed by a well-known survey platform
- Built-in analytics/reporting dashboards typical of SurveyMonkey
Where it falls short
- Static question flow with no AI-driven follow-up to uncover the specific moment motivation dropped
- No voice AI interview mode or guided screen-share tasks
- No automated per-response quality scoring of open-text answers
SurveySparrow
Employee Motivation Survey TemplateA ready-to-use template presented in SurveySparrow's conversational, chat-style survey format, which can feel more engaging than a traditional grid of questions. However, the conversational UI is still a scripted, pre-set question sequence rather than a true adaptive AI interview that reacts to what the respondent says.
What it does well
- Conversational, chat-like format that may increase completion rates
- Ready-made template requiring minimal setup
Where it falls short
- Conversational UI simulates a chat but doesn't dynamically generate new follow-up questions based on responses
- No option for voice-based AI interviews or guided screen-share tasks
- No automated quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology published
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