Discuss some of the advantages and disadvantages of in-house surveys.

Advantages of in-house surveys include: allowing the organization to select the key jobs,the firm does its own job matching,and the firm has the option of selecting and determining survey participants.Disadvantages include: (a)the fact that firms do not necessarily have qualified researchers, (b)the organization may run up against a lack of cooperation from certain participants because of the large number of surveys they face or the confidential nature of some of the information requested, (c)the time consumption of doing a survey,and (d)employees concerned may challenge the credibility of the survey results because the organization is both referee and player.Many of these disadvantages are eliminated when the organization turns to a consulting firm.