Started in 2003 by Theresa M. Welbourne, with participation from over 9,200 different individuals, the Leadership Pulse™ is conducted in partnership with Mercer and the Center for Effective Organizations (CEO) at the University of Southern California.The research shows that optimal employee energy increases financial performance while too much energy can significantly decrease productivity.
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Research and Insights from the Center for Effective Organizations
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Data-Driven Storytelling, 5/13/13
Data-Driven Storytellers help leaders use HR data to have highly interactive dialogues that lead to decisive action that fuels high-impact and measurable business results.
Making the Business Case for Employee Resource Groups
There has been an evolution and growth of employee resource groups (ERGs) over the last 30 years. In this article, Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) and Lacey Leone McLaughlin (CEO) supplement the work on ERGs through several different data-gathering approaches.
ERG’s and Innovation, 2/26/13, Audio/Slides
Theresa Welbourne and Lacey Leone McLaughlin discussed new learnings from the first Employee Resource Group (ERG) Summit and the research conducted for that program.
Insights and Learning from Data Coaches
Theresa Welbourne along with Omari Maulana and Lacey Leone McLaughlin, discussed what data coaching is, what it can do, and how it has evolved.
Employee Resource Groups as Sources of Innovation
Theresa Welbourne and Ian Ziskin discussed new learnings from the first Employee Resource Group (ERG) Summit and the research conducted for that program. The data focus on what drives success of ERGs, member energy at work, and identity.
Who’s buying the company stock? An investigation into identity and stock purchase plan participation in a newly public firm
Most of the research on employee ownership or employee stock plan participation investigates the effects of such forms of ownership on employee attitudes. In order to supplement that literature, Theresa M. Welbourne’s (CEO) study explores the effect of a set of employee attitudes (work related identity) on the decision to participate in an employee stock purchase plan.
The Role-Based Identity Scale: Towards a Parsimonious Measure of Work-Related Identity
The study of identity has, to date, been primarily in the realm of social psychology, and as a result, little work has been done on work-related identity. Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) introduces a new measure of identity that taps into five work-related roles.
The Promise and Peril of HR Data
CEO Research Professor Theresa Welbourne and Kerrian Bard Fournier, Vice President, Head of Human Capital & Analytics, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc., discussed how to use the data that surrounds us to orchestrate actions that drive measurable business results.
Engaged in What? So What? A Role-Based Perspective for the Future of Employee Engagement
The point made in this chapter by Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) is that employee engagement is an effort worth pursuing . It puts a name on something we know matters to people, society and business. However, in this chapter the suggestion will be made that employee engagement is not a construct at all.
Fast HRM: Confidence, Energy and Engagement
In this particular Leadership Pulse Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) studied a topic we have been doing quite a bit of work on called fast human resource management (HRM). We asked respondents to rate the degree to which HR is fast and also score how accurate the HR group is.
Data Coaching: A Cure for HR Data Analysis Paralysis?, 10/27/2010
Theresa Welbourne, CEO Research Professor, and Denise Avink of Northrop Grumman, spoke on October 27, 2010 on Data Coaching: A Cure for HR Data Analysis Paralysis?