Engagement Survey

Employee engagement surveys can be an effective way to measure inclusion. Although inclusion is inherendy more difficult to... 

For the folks who report to them, they are the company. About half the questions in the popular Gallup Employee Engagement survey touch more or less directly on the relationship with the supervisor. Research going back several decades found that first-line supervisors had the most impact on the effectiveness of employee involvement programs, and (paradoxically) were most likely to be left out of the planning and implementation of such programs. 

The first reports of the observation of transient emission and enhanced absorption signals in the H-n.m.r. spectra of solutions in which radical reactions were taking place appeared in 1967. The importance of the phenomenon, named Chemically Induced Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization (CIDNP), in radical chemistry was quickly recognized. Since that time, an explosive growth in the number of publications on the subject has occurred and CIDNP has been detected in H, C, N, and P as well as H-n.m.r. spectra. Nevertheless, the number of groups engaged in research in this area is comparatively small. This may be a consequence of the apparent complexity of the subject. It is the purpose of this review to describe in a quahtative way the origin of CIDNP and to survey the published applications of the phenomenon in... 

Van Hise did not engage in this study alone. In the mid-nineties, using Survey funds, he hired a young physical chemist, A. T. Lincoln, to assist him with calculations and, it appears, to tutor him in the new literature (44, 45). The fruits of these labors appeared in a series of papers during the late 1890s and in his massive Treatise on Metamorphism of 1904, an encyclopedic work that some of his colleagues took to be the last word on the subject (45, 46). 

The lack of a non-competition clause in the agreements derived from the employer survey apparently reflect a concern that such a clause might not be enforceable. In California, for example, the Business and Professions Code 16,600 voids such clauses. This provision was recently upheld by U. S. Supreme Court (4). In other jurisdictions, there is a substantial risk that a clause prohibiting a chemist from engaging in his profession with another employer would be ruled unenforceable as an unconscionable contract of adhesion. It seems the trend of the law is to recognize the doctrine of contracts of adhesion as being unenforceable. 

An 8.5-year morbidity survey of employees engaged in the manufacture of chlorpyrifos did not show any statistically significant differences in illness or prevalence of symptoms between exposed and unexposed groups. Potentially exposed employees did report symptoms of dizziness, malaise, and fatigue relatively more often than did subjects from the comparison group however, there was no relationship of these symptoms to exposure levels. 

Ott MG, Kolsear RC, Scharnweber HC, et al A mortality survey of employees engaged in the development or manufacture of styrene-based products. J Occup Med 22 445-460, 1980... 

A recent survey by Chemical and Engineering News noted that 19 companies account for about 80% of the chemical industry s sales and more than 90% of the entire industry s R D dollars. Therefore, fifteen firms were taken from a universe of 36 large industrial chemical firms. (See section on methodology.) In 1976, these fifteen firms accounted for 71.6% of R D expenditures. Finally, it should be noted that many of these companies are diversified and are engaged in various activities other than chemicals. Financial data presented in annual reports are often aggregate data and, consequently, it is difficult to determine the impact on R D related only to chemical activities. Although many companies have chemicals as one of their products, the companies selected for this project are predominantly involved in the manufacture and sale of industrial chemicals. 

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