Whitepapers
A Candid Look at Employee Engagement: Five Global Truths
By Jeffrey Jolton Ph.D.
Despite the brief employment slump at the turn of the millennium, companies have finally woken up to the fact that their people issues are key to their prospects for prosperity in the near, middle and distant future. Employers are seeing that the tal...
An Overview of Employee Confidence
By Anne E. Herman, Ph.D., Kenexa and Jeffrey M. Saltzman, M.A.
Employee Confidence is an action-focused, performance oriented construct that can be used to forecast and enhance the success of the organization by measuring key components of the workplace environment and individual employees within that environmen...
Assessing Applicants’ Value Preferences: Taking the Selection Process One Step Higher
By Tiffany M. Greene, Ph.D., and Jeff A. Weekley, Ph.D., Kenexa
During selection, organizations often assess applicants’ knowledge, skills, abilities and other requirements (KSAOs) to determine the best applicant for the job. In most cases, the assessment is intended to discriminate between candidates who w...
Assessing Corporate Responsibility: Is it Good For Business?
By Brenda Kowske, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute, Anne Herman, Ph.D., Kenexa and Susan D’Mello, Kenexa High Performance Institute
Corporate responsibility (CR) has again become a popular phrase in the wake of recent business scandals, the international mortgage and housing crisis, and the global recession. Indeed, running a business exclusively focused on bottom-line profits ha...
Assessing the Ethical Culture
Doug J. Jondle and Robert C. Shoemake, Center for Ethical Business, and Brenda Kowske, Ph.D.
What makes an organization ethical? Can you measure ethics and, if so, what criteria should you use for assessment? In this white paper, we present a solution for conceptualizing and measuring ethics—a tool we believe will enable organizational...
Associate Engagement in Asia: Does One Size Fit All?
By Kyle Lundby, Ph.D. and Siddartha Parthasarathy, Kenexa
The 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing have been described by observers as a coming-out party for mainland China. As nearly anyone knows today, China is just one of many Asian countries that are rapidly reshaping the global economy.
For organizations see...
Attitude? What Attitude? The Evidence Behind the Work Attitudes of Millennials
By Brenda Kowske, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute, and Rena Rasch, Kenexa High Performance Institute
Are the millennials responsible, dedicated and loyal enough to help your business thrive? As they move up through the ranks, will they be prepared to manage and lead as your business grows? If you listen to the media and a long line of authors, exp...
Barriers to Effective Survey Follow-Up: Execution, Importance, Resources
Jack W. Wiley, Ph.D., Kenexa High Performance Institute
Most large companies today conduct regular employee surveys and use them as a key talent management measurement tool (Kraut, 2006, cited by Wiley, 2010). These survey programs typically are aimed at supporting the overall business strategy and, in pa...
Best Practices for Designing Salary Structures
Organizations develop and implement salary structures to provide a framework for administering their employee compensation programs. Effective administration of a compensation program requires a balance between the pay levels for employees inside the...
Beyond Compliance and Representation: Recruiting a Rich Mix of People Delivers High Performance
While many people often equate equal employment opportunity and affirmative action with diversity recruiting, they may often fail to consider the strategic business case for developing a more diverse and inclusive workforce. With the considerable dem...