Today marks National Employee Health and Fitness day! This annual event occurs the third Wednesday of every May and is dedicated to encourage physical activity in the workplace. Though it’s only recognized once a year, it’s important for businesses to realize that instituting health and wellness...read more

In the course of survey research several topics have developed a reputation for being ‘sensitive’. In short this means the topical areas are perceived to be just short of off limits by the culture we live in. Examples include cultural diversity, recreational drug use, sexual activity, alcohol use,...read more

Testing 1,2,3, test, test.  Consumer and B2B market researchers, well actually researchers of all stripes and disciplines, are tasked with collecting data. Said data can be from transactions, a customer satisfaction survey, brand awareness tracker, or some other data collection method (e.g. analysis...read more

Gretchen Rubin, author of the bestselling book The Happiness Project, recently sat down with OPEN Forum contributor Barry Moltz to talk about her experience learning to make her own happiness. While Rubin's book explores many methods of achieving personal happiness, her findings can also be applied...read more

Many organizations are big fans of publicizing slogans about how their people are their number one priority, yet constantly increasing shareholder value is more often their biggest concern. Luckily for most of the workforce, recent studies have found that actively engaging (and not just satisfying)...read more

The workplace can seem like such a serious place, and sometimes it should be. Research from fall 2011 that was conducted for Accountemps found that nearly 60 percent of chief financial officers thought that having a sense of humor helped an employee fit in with the companies' culture. That's right,...read more

Inc., a website dedicated to helping small businesses flourish, recently published the top qualities great bosses have that can motivate their employees to work hard and grow their business. Jeff Haden cites these five characteristics that a remarkable boss should embody: Develop every employee:...read more

Dan Ariely: Beware Conflicts of Interest I love this story. Towards the end Dan says "The most difficult thing, of course, is to recognize that sometimes we are too blinded by our own incentives... When I was doing these experiments, I was helping science. I was eliminating the data to get the true...read more

According to a recent LinkedIn poll, 44% of respondents said the top priority for their HR department over the next 12 months is employee engagement and loyalty. In my opinion, this is a pretty big deal—and quite the mentality shift! I'm encouraged by these poll results. But it certainly leads to...read more

I have recently been working with a client who is seeking to change the way they do business and, as such, my team advised them that part of what we need to understand and what this client needs to do is change the corporate culture.  They then sent a corporate culture survey to my team to review...read more