Employee engagement. Most business owners and Human Resource personnel know they need to have engaged employees, satisfied employees, and loyal employees to operate a team successfully. In order to truly gauge whether or not your organization promotes a healthy and positive culture for its employees, an organization must use quantitative metrics gained through employee surveying efforts. Read more

Employee surveys are one of the most eye-opening yet underutilized studies among organizations. There are many studies that reference the impact that employee satisfaction has on customer satisfaction. In fact, most human resource consultants would argue you should start with fixing the culture inside of your organization before pursuing an external research focus. Even though valuable feedback Read more

The 2014 CNY’s Best Places to Work awards marked the 2nd year in a row Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS) partnered with BizEventz and the Business Journal News Network (BJNN) to manage the employee surveying process. RMS managed all of the data and analysis portions of the project leading up to the event held at Read more

This article was featured in the Winter 2013/2014 edition of RMS News – a publication of Research & Marketing Strategies, Inc. (RMS). Here are five tips and tricks to having more effective employees in 2014: (1) Right Roles for the Right People – Understanding your employee’s strengths and weaknesses, and likes and dislikes can go a long way in employee Read more

Background: In 2013, BizEventz, the Central New York Business Journal (CNYBJ), and AmeriCU Credit Union partnered with Research & Marketing Strategies Inc. (RMS) to conduct the CNY’s Best Places to Work survey. The study identified and recognized the best places of employment in Central New York (based upon the RMS employee survey instrument). The RMS tool Read more

This blog post was written by our guest blogger, Marc Bovenzi, Business Development Associate at Research & Marketing Strategies (RMS), an employee survey vendor. All companies want their employees to be productive, work well with customers, work well with each other, and to do excellent work, but figuring out ways to improve in all of Read more

Background: For this study, RMS was engaged to conduct a survey among a healthcare facility’s employees to obtain primary research information regarding its employees’ satisfaction, loyalty and unmet needs. The objectives of the market research included measuring employee perception and satisfaction around several changes regarding policy and scheduling. The client also wanted to identify areas of dissatisfaction Read more

When people think about market research, they often think of it in terms of an organization looking outside itself for insights into their customers or markets. That is a large part of it, but an often overlooked (and sometimes feared) application of market research involves turning the lens around and looking inside your own organization. Read more

Looking for some tips on topics to cover in your employee survey? Thinking about doing employee satisfaction surveys? You already see the value in it, so you’re on the right track. Here is a blog post on why you should use a third-party like RMS to administer it.