Collaboration in FRE questionnaire

From these 4 main categories of issues, which one effect your collaborative effort the most?​

• People cannot collaborate because they lack information of who is doing what, not clear about the direction of their project, that of the company etc.​

• People end up not collaborating because the working style (i.e.. objective settings and evaluation) encourage individuality

• Establishing a collaboration simply takes too long, there many steps and hurdles so people give up​

• People are spread too thin so end up working alone, division of tasks not clear which leads to inefficient team-working​

• Not applicable

Do you agree with the following statement?

People cannot collaborate because they lack information of who is doing what, not clear about the direction of their project, that of the company etc.

• Strongly agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly disagree

Have you previously encountered any of these Information flow issues​?

• No transparency at high-level (top management, strategy, company)​:

  - The message of strategical directions for the company is not straightforward. Lack of transparency sometimes​.

  - There is no transparency​

  - Hard to work with external people if you don't have a clear direction and definition from managers or FRJ. External people can be confused (and also you)​.

• No clarity of information at high-level (top management, strategy, company)​:

  - Not always clear who are the people you can collaborate with in Fujitsu​.

  - It is crucial knowing what other colleagues are doing to take advantage of synergies and not overlap works​.

  -I cannot collaborate with other people because I don't really know what they are working on​

• No transparency or sharing information issues at low-level (divisions, teams, individuals)​:

  - It's not clear what are the responsibilities of each role (manager, principal, senior researcher, researcher), so it's difficult to collab.​

  - Withholding information and lack of transparency in internal collaborations​

  - Disconnected objectives inside a group hider collaboration. Members of a groups should know what the group and others have to achieve​

  - When code is shared for a collaboration, sometimes the commenting or documentation (if any) is poor​

  - Silos​.

• Other issues:

• Not applicable

Do you agree with the following statement?

People end up not collaborating because the working style (i.e.. objective settings and evaluation) encourage individuality​.

• Strongly agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly disagree

Have you previously encountered any of these Company​ related issues​?

• Issue 1

• Issue 2

• Issue 3

• Other issues

• Not applicable.

Do you agree with the following statement?

Establishing a collaboration simply takes too long, there many steps and hurdles so people give up​.

• Strongly agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly disagree

Have you previously encountered any of these Administrative issues​?

• Issue 1

• Issue 2

• Issue 3

• Other issues

• Not applicable.

Do you agree with the following statement?

People are spread too thin so end up working alone, division of tasks not clear which leads to inefficient team-working.

• Strongly agree

• Agree

• Neutral

• Disagree

• Strongly disagree

Have you previously encountered any of these Management issues​?

• Issue 1

• Issue 2

• Issue 3

• Other issues

• Not applicable.