Do surveys encourage unproductive thinking? It’s not surprising that most people feel a wave of boredom wash over them when they hear the term ‘employee engagement survey’, particularly because many organisations are now requiring employees to answer the same questions on a frequent basis, sometimes more than once per year. These surveys seek to provide

• In Innovation, Research, Social Media, Technology

The Social Media Garden is an innovative open-access research project that will provide insight into the barriers that organisations face in embracing social media practices – and solutions to overcome them. The project will be open until the end of March 2012 and can be accessed here. You can watch a video walk through here: The Social

• In Innovation, Research, Social Media, Social Media Garden, Technology, Unilever

Silverman Research has won two industry awards for its research with Unilever. You can download the full case study for this project as reported in Strategic Communications Magazine here. In October 2011, Silverman Research and Unilever received the CIPD People Management Award for Excellence in Technology. The Awards are the UK’s most prestigious for recognising

• In Awards, Innovation, Social Media, Technology, Unilever

Silverman Research has won the CIPD People Management Award for “Excellence Through Technology”. The CIPD Awards are the UK’s most prestigious awards for recognising outstanding achievement in HR and people management. We won the award together with Unilever, for our research with their ex-pat employee community. The judging panel, comprised of industry experts, concluded: “…we

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