Please Help Us With Our Important New Employee Research!

I am working with my colleagues Dr. Fran McKee-Ryan from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Dr. Jaron Harvey from the University of Alabama on some new and exciting employee research. Dr. Harvey created our survey instrument, got it approved through the University of Alabama Institutional Review Board, and has now posted it online.

Good science dictates I can’t tell you exactly what we are studying (e.g. motivation), but I can tell you that the things we are interested in learning more about are very relevant given the changes our drastic economic conditions of the last few years have caused in the workplace. Most of the evidence we have about the effect of the economy of employee attitudes and performance is only anecdotal at this point. Your responses to this survey will be combined with and compared to other respondents from different samples (e.g. recent MBA graduates).

Can you help us learn more about your attitudes and beliefs about work? We hope so! We would really appreciate it if you would take about 20 minutes to fill out our online survey. You can access that survey by clicking this link.

Here are the instructions you will find when you click the link:

I am a professor in the Culverhouse College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Alabama. I invite you to participate in a research study. The purpose of this study is to better understand how employees’ skills, education, and experience are related to their work experiences.

Your participation will involve completing these two surveys and should only take about 18-20 minutes for each survey. This is the first survey and the second survey will be sent in about two months. Your involvement in the study is voluntary, and you may choose not to participate or to stop at any time. The results of the research study may be published, but your name will not be used. In fact, the published results will be presented in summary form only. Your identity will not be associated with your responses in any published format.

The findings from this project will provide information about workers’ feelings, opinions, and behaviors with no cost to you other than the time it takes for the survey. However, everyone who completes both surveys will be included in a drawing to win one of several $25 gift cards at a retailer of their choice (e.g., Target, Best Buy, Walmart).

If you have any questions about this research project, please feel free to call me, Jaron Harvey, at (205) 348-8942 or send an e-mail to jharvey@cba.ua.edu. Questions about your rights as a research participant or concerns about the project should be directed to the Office of Human Research Protection at The University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa Campus at (205) 348-8461 or at participantoutreach@ua.edu.

Here again is the link to the survey. I hope you can help! Thanks, Bret

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