eePulse’s One-Item Employee Energy Pulse™ Predicts Excellence: According to New Research from HR.com

In his presentation at the 2005 Employer of Excellence Program in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Claude Balthazard, HR.com Director of Research, indicated that eePulse’s single-item, Energy Pulse™ 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. “We expected a relation between excellence as an employer and employee energy, but we were truly surprised at the strength of the relation,” he states.

“These 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,” states Dr. Theresa M. Welbourne, eePulse Founder and CEO and faculty member at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. “The 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 today’s 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 organization. eePulse’s detailed ROI analyses show powerful results (over $1 million in savings) in time frames as short as one month.”

“Enabling 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 effectiveness” states Debbie McGrath, HR.com’s CEO.

About eePulse, Inc.
eePulse, Inc. delivers technology and research-consulting services that support Data and Dialogue Driven Leadership™ processes. Using eePulse’s proprietary, web-based and enterprise-wide software suite called Measurecom™ (measurement and communication), organizations and leaders immediately improve their performance. Productivity enhancement, cost savings and innovation come from action taken in response to real-time stakeholder information. eePulse provides both an enterprise-wide version of the product and a self-service, lower cost option (MyeePulse). For additional information, please call 877-377-8573 or visit www.eepulse.com.

About HR.com
Established in 1999, HR.com Limited is in business to help build great companies by connecting them to the knowledge and resources they need to effectively manage the people side of business. As the global authority, we deliver HR Best Practices to help organizations build great companies through community, collaboration, research, shared best practices, and measurements. HR.com is funded by the leading venture capital firm Ventures West and private investors. HR.com Contact: Debbie McGrath, President, HR.com Limited, dmcgrath@hr.com, 1-877-472-6648, ext. 104.

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