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Measuring well-being provides a deeper understanding of the challenges and opportunities that affect humanity’s life experience. There have been numerous initiatives to measure the well-being of nations by complementing income with other country-level factors that are considered important in peoples’ lives. Those measures indicate that people in developed countries enjoy higher levels of well-being than those in emerging economies. In this paper we measure well-being with Kenexa’s Workforce Quality of Life Index (WQLI)...
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Beyond Engagement: The Definitive Guide to Employee Surveys and Organizational Performance
Jack W. Wiley, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute
Employee engagement surveys have grown in acceptance in the last 10 years because organizations believe they can leverage employee engagement for higher employee retention, greater customer satisfaction and improved financial performance (Harter, Sch...
Bringing Home the Bacon, Not To Mention the Eggs: Women and Work Stress
Brenda Kowske, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute
It’s time to update our picture of household economics. In 2000, U.S. Census data estimated that 70.1 percent of women between the ages 25 and 54 were working; that’s only 10 percent fewer than men. Not only do women in the U.S. serve egg...
Communication Strategies to Ensure Your Employee Survey is a Success
By Anne E. Herman, Ph.D., Kenexa Research Institute, Nancy DeLay, Ph.D. and Ritu Mohanka, Kenexa
Once the decision has been made to conduct an employee survey, it is important for the organization to begin building momentum. A well-done employee survey will rely on participation from the members of the organization on its design, administration,...
Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts Are Recognized By Employees
Research conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute (KRI), evaluated UK workers’ perceptions of their organizations with regard to corporate social responsibility.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR), a strategic corporate initiative that ha...
Corporate Social Responsibility Efforts Are Recognized By Employees in Australia
Research conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute (KRI) evaluated Australia workers’ perceptions of their organizations with regard to corporate social responsibility.
Corporate social responsibility (CSR)—a strategic corporate initiat...
Creating an Ethical Culture...Looking Beyond Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Research conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute (KRI), evaluated how workers view their organizations with regard to ethical practices and conduct.
After the code of conduct is agreed upon and distributed, can a company stop worrying about the e...
Despite the Proclamations of Doom & Gloom on Economic News, the Kenexa Research Institute Finds that Workers Have Confidence in Their Organizations and Feel a Sense of Job Security
A new study conducted by the Kenexa Research Institute (KRI) measured workers’ confidence. Despite the latest proclamations of doom and gloom in the United States associated with a potential recession, sky-high energy costs and a collapsing hou...
Developing and Validating a Global Model of Employee Engagement
By Jack W. Wiley, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute, Brenda J. Kowske, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute, and Anne E. Herman, Ph.D., Kenexa
Most organizations today conducting employee surveys refer to their programs as “engagement surveys,” or they measure employee engagement as one of their survey topics. We estimate 90 percent of our current global survey clients conduct e...
Disciplined Action Planning Drives Employee Engagement
By Jack W. Wiley, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute and Marilou Legge, Arbitron
Human Resource departments can maximize the value of an employee survey by designing survey instruments that align with business goals and paying careful attention to follow-up action plans. The experience of Arbitron, an international media and mark...
Does Money Motivate?
By Brenda Kowske, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute
Some say money can’t buy happiness, but data from the Kenexa High Performance Institute shows that for those who can barely pay the monthly bills, it certainly can—at least in terms of happiness on the job.
According to the Burea...