Nonprofit organizations are companies that claim to serve the public interest of society in some way without distributing profits to owners or investors. In other words, nonprofit organizations employ paid workers, but all otherwise available funds are utilized to accomplish the nonprofit's goals and objectives. Although they are not organized for the purpose of creating wealth, nonprofits are big…
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It's commonly said that there's no such thing as a dumb question, and this is probably true. However, there is certainly such thing as a bad survey question. A bad survey question is one that contains confusing construction, poorly phrased language, or other elements that leads respondents to answer in ways that are less than helpful. Bad survey questions can skew your dataset or even make the…
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On March 24, U.S. President Joe Biden announced that the United States would accept up to 100,000 refugees from war-torn Ukraine. He also announced that the United States would donate $1 billion to assist European countries that are also accepting Ukrainian refugees and the associated humanitarian needs. President Biden stated, “This is not something that Poland or Romania or Germany should carry…
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Regardless of the type or purpose of your organization, you probably collect data such as employee performance, post-project assessments, product reviews, and customer/client feedback. These kinds of feedback data are among the most important ways (and in some cases the only ways) to improve an organization's staff, teams, products, services, and the organization itself. In fact, if you've been in…
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##How many Ukrainian refugees are there now? Ukraine boasts a population of more than 43 million. As of early March, about two weeks into the invasion, about 2 million people had fled, mostly into Poland. In just two additional weeks, the number has grown to nearly 3.9 million, according to the BBC. Additionally, about 10 million people have been displaced. This means that more than one third of…
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When General Electric announced in 2016 the elimination of their rather infamously intense annual evaluations, 300,000 G.E. employees breathed what must have been one of the largest collective sighs of relief in the history of corporate America. That's because for four decades, under the management of CEO Jack Welch, G.E. evaluated their massive workforce by ranking each employee according to a…
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