Employee Research: Latest Thinking

At Ipsos MORI, we constantly search for new and innovative ways to improve the employer-employee relationship. This leading edge thinking enables our clients to engage employees, know their customers and grow their business. Our latest thinking includes:

	People Management During the Recession People management during the recession presents a whole new set of issues for organisations, particularly those which are used to growing and feeling successful).		Common Sense in a Changing World Ipsos MORI undertakes a vast amount of employee research on behalf of organisations going through significant change.
	Engaging Employees through Corporate Responsibility Companies must understand the impact corporate responsibility has on a most valuable asset — their employees (both existing and potential).		The impact of the economic recession on HR Talent 2 and Ipsos MORI recently joined forces to survey senior HR professionals about how the global recession is affecting their organisations and their people management strategies and practices.
	Achieving Transformational Leadership According to recent media coverage, there is a 'crisis' in the public sector's leadership and management capability. Is this fair criticism or are all public sector organisations being 'tarred with the same brush?' In Ipsos MORI's experience, it's not all bad news.		Employee Wellbeing: New Rules for a Better Workplace A healthy workplace is vital to your success. And to the economy. According to Statistics Canada, the cost of work time lost related to stress in Canada is C$12 billion annually. That was before the economic crisis hit the country.
	Employees and Companies: Towards a Transactional Relationship For many years now, the relationship between the employee and the company has been touted as one of the key pillars of a sustainable economy. Is this not somewhat paradoxical, now that the traditional model of the employee pursuing a life-long career within the company is a thing of the past?		Tapping into your staff’s creativity and experience to help your organization capitalise on the recovery By all accounts, the Recovery is on the way. And now, your management is keen to develop a plan that will help your organization capitalize on the uptick. So, how can you help?
	Customers and Employees: A Complex Relationship This paper explores the complexity and diversity of the employee-customer relationship and how the changing landscape of employee-customer contact may or may not influence customer satisfaction and loyalty.		The Communication Imperative: Dialoguing with Employees in Anxious Times This paper demonstrates that success in communications is not based on a single source of information. Best Performing Organisations find the "right mix” between communication channels, between “official”and “informal” communications, even in an incredibly challenging environment.
	Generation Y: Understanding Attitudes to Work Generation Y has been broadly defined in the US by Howe & Strauss as the ‘high school class of 2000’ and they are also referred to as ‘Millennials’ But, what do we understand about their attitudes to work?		Diversity Challenges in Canada Canada is a changing mosaic. Before 1961, 90%of immigrants had a European background. That number has dropped to only 16% in the past decade. This paper investigates the implications for Diversity in the workplace.