Why the Best Companies to Work for are Likely the Worst

Being labelled one of the Best Companies to Work For  is great public and employee relations. It is also bad management.  

It is a sign that the company is more concerned with image than with reality. That’s not a good thing for either employees or the company. Among other things, it means the company will sacrifice real and meaningful improvements to the working environment, in favour of a positive press release.  

Most employees see through the public relations spin. The disconnect between employees experience and the stellar results required of being labelled one of the Best Companies to Work For, does not cause employees to suddenly change their experiences. Though it does cause them to question  the credibility of the Executive team and Human Resources.

As much as employees may be aware of the disconnect between public relations and reality, they may not be aware of how and why it occurs. Here are three big reasons: Read More

Statistically Significant Nonsense

If you don’t believe it, why are you using it?

Almost all employee survey research, probably the research you are using now, assumes that what is important to people can be determined by the formula for standard error – significance testing. Read More

Voice of the Employee: A Whole New World for the HR Professional

Voice of the Employee (VoE) offers a whole new world for the HR Professional because only VoE can identify what really matters to your employees.

VoE replaces meaningless statistical significance tests with tests of real world or practical significance. Rather than produce an endless list of statistically significant issues, VoE identifies a clear and concrete set of priorities that can be used to drive sustainable change aligned with business priorities.

There is no statistical gobbledygook. Only hard science applied to the problem of identifying issues of real and practical importance to your employees.

That’s the new world of VoE. Developing sustainable, practical improvement solutions for business. Your business.

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VoE: Supporting Meaningful Change

Interested in employee research that actually makes a difference? Voice of the Employee (VoE)  is a research methodology designed to support employee driven change — where hard evidence is used to drive improvement. Read More