eePulses One-Item Employee Energy Pulse Predicts Excellence

In his presentation at the 2005 Employer of Excellence Program in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Claude Balthazard, HR.com Director of Research, indicated that eePulseís single-item, Energy Pulse(TM) question alone could be used to differentiate levels of employer excellence. Using a more sophisticated, overall leadership model than employed in most other best employer or similar excellence programs, the detailed data analysis done by the HR.com research team showed that the one-question, Energy metric was uniquely comprehensive in capturing the multiple aspects of employer excellence.

The HR.com Employers of Excellence program provides scorecards and comparative data for companies committed to measuring the effectiveness of their human capital, and now, it can shed additional validation data on employee energy at work. Their findings suggest that Energy Pulse can be used as a proactive diagnostic tool for companies that want to learn to be excellent and maintain their competitive advantage through their employees.

Dr. Balthazard analyzed the data from the Employer of Excellence programs conducted in San Francisco, Phoenix and Tampa. ìWe expected a relation between excellence as an employer and employee energy, but we were truly surprised at the strength of the relation,î he states.

ìThese results provide additional validation for the research on employee energy, which started over 14 years ago with a series of studies on thousands of firms,î states Dr. Theresa M. Welbourne, eePulse Founder and CEO and faculty member at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. ìThe research findings indicated that high-energy cultures predicted long-term stock price growth, earnings growth and firm survival. The work was further validated with research done with hundreds of thousands of employees, indicating that employee energy predicts outcomes such as turnover, absenteeism, 360 ratings of performance, productivity, and customer satisfaction. The simplicity of using one question powers a user experience that meets the time requirements of todayís busy employees. Not only is the Energy Pulse-taking process quick and simple for the user, but also, the complex and patent-pending technology supporting the system gives immediate alerts to all managers in an org! anization. eePulseís detailed ROI analyses show powerful results (over $1 million in savings) in time frames as short as one month.î

ìEnabling firms to measure individual energy levels in their organization can provide invaluable data in determining which areas may require intervention and immediate attention to improve overall business effectivenessî states Debbie McGrath, HR.comís CEO.

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