Research
Sirota is committed to the sharing of industry best practices. Use this Research Centre to download white papers, recent presentations, articles, podcasts, and case studies. We have included research and findings from our leading business psychologists who are active in both professional research and client work.
June 2010
Engagement Isn't Always the Best Indicator of Employee Attitudes
by Douglas Klein, Maura Mills, and Justin Black
May 2010
HR in the Brave New World
by Patrick Hyland
December 2009
Resetting the HR Agenda
by Patrick Hyland
November 2009
Out of Crisis: Engaging Employees After the Recession
by Patrick Hyland
October 2009
Engaging the Business To Build The Nation
by Nick Starritt, Managing Director and Megan Connolly, Senior Consultant
October 2009
The HR Agenda for a Jobless Recovery
by Douglas Klein, President
August 2009
Practical Guidance On Building a Solid Engagement Survey
by Douglas Klein, President and Craig Ramsay of Intuit
June 2009
Out of Crisis: Engaging Employees Amidst a Recession
by Patrick Hyland, Vice President & Senior Consultant
April 2009
Assessing & Shaping a Culture of Ethical Conduct
by Michael Meltzer, Chief Executive Officer
March 2009
Measuring the Impact of Recessionary Times on Survivor Engagement
by Douglas Klein, President
October 2008 Briefing
Reinventing Manager Reports: The Key to Driving Action and Achieving Results
by Douglas Klein, President and Jacki Bassani, Vice President
2008 Briefing
How to Avoid Critical Mistakes When Conducting Surveys
by Douglas Klein, President and MJ Farrar, Director of Project Management
2008 Briefing
Managing Employee Loyalty & Motivation During Anxious Times
by Patrick Hyland, Vice President
June 2008
Top 10 CSR Trends
by Douglas Klein, President
In the wake of the Great Recession, the global workforce is de‐motivated, disengaged, and demoralized. Right? Not necessarily. Read the Sirota Report to learn more.
Understanding Post-Recession Employee Attitudes August 2010 Sirota Report
Academy of Management 2010 Conference Symposium
August 6 - 10, 2010, in Montreal, Canada
A Team Level Analysis of Mergers: The Impact of Restructuring and Managerial Support on Role Stressors and Work-Life Outcomes, by J.K Andreassi and A.R. Grotto
Sirota Symposia at SIOP 2010
April 8 - 10, 2010, in Atlanta, Georgia
Building Organizational Resiliance during Financial Crisis
Employee Survey Participation Rates
To Share or Not To Share Survey Data with Employees
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Sirota Science Employee Engagement
This summary describes Sirota’s perspective on Employee Engagement. It provides a detailed definition of the concept, an explanation of why we believe it is important, the factors that foster it, how to properly measure it, and how to sustain engagement over time within an organization.To Survey or Not to Survey? Survey Utilization During a Troubling Market by Peter Rutigliano, Ph.D.
In this 2009 web article, Peter Rutigliano, Ph.D., Vice President, Sirota, examines how an employee feels as a direct result of behavior by the senior leadership, their immediate supervisor and their job. The paper addresses how the economy impacts employee survey processes and results.
The Impact of Layoffs by David Sirota
In this 2009 white paper, Sirota's Founder and Chairman Emeritus extends our basic "stakeholder" partnership concept to companies and their workers in extremely difficult economic times.
A Field Guide to Corporate Social Responsibility by Michael Irwin Meltzer
In this article for the April, 2008 issue of ACC Docket, Sirota's CEO Michael Meltzer provides guidelines for the in-house counsel in the emerging CSR arena. The article also provides a broad overview of CSR trends - why it has taken on such importance now and the role of metrics in measuring CSR impact.
Book from Wharton School Publishing Exposes as Myths 33 Beliefs About Work and Workers by the Staff of Sirota
This paper brings the research data and conclusions from The Enthusiastic Employee: How Companies Profit by Giving Workers What They Want, on commonly-held beliefs in management. These beliefs can be either traditional or the "latest." As the paper's title says, large numbers of these beliefs are found to be little more than myths.
BBA Aviation and Sirota - Read about how Sirota helped BBA Aviation quickly uncover whether different businesses were working in a unified way under the corporate brand
Read about how - armed with a new strategic direction from the leadership team - NATIONAL GRID asked Sirota to help them realign and revampe their employee survey process to develop a stronger and more effective business tool
Read about how Sirota partnered with SmithBucklin on a new survey process and vastly improved data utilization to deepen understanding of customer perceptions and behavior
