AER™ Employee Engagement Survey | Scarlett Surveys International

Associate Engagement Research (AER™) is an empirically validated employee engagement survey that measures all 15 drivers of employee engagement which directly affect employee on-the-job effort. Unlike any other survey, AER is based on Dr. Frederick Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Studies and calibrated for global use. This behavior-based instrument has been thoroughly researched, applied and developed over many years by Dr. Robert Brown, Dr. Lester Zerfoss and Ken Scarlett to directly connect 15 employee experiences (drivers) to behavior and the accomplishing of business outcomes. AER has been used by thousands of organizations to pro-actively and successfully manage their human resources long term.

Leaders and organizations are often distracted from managing the real drivers of employee engagement. Our research has shown that survey sampling and short opinion questionnaires do little to improve employee engagement or quality of leadership because these surveys usually focus on generalized quick fixes that employees view as disingenuous and uncaring. Scarlett Surveys unique AER Engagement Index™ and Ratio is compiled by surveying all employees with the complete set of engagement drivers. You get the full picture: quality engagement metrics you can trust to improve relationships while improving business performance and strengthening leadership skill – by group and overall. Our AER Engagement Index™ and Ratios accurately describe the engagement level of each group while the in-depth drill downs into the 15 engagement drivers reveal what interactions or events need to change to improve engagement intensity. Thus, your organization is able to sustainably manage employee engagement.

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Global Norms and Comparison Ranges
Scarlett Surveys has conducted over 15 million surveys. From this empirical data, we construct and maintain our comparison ranges. This means that you can rely on a correct context of comparison with your survey results. You will know exactly what is good and what needs to be improved in your report of results.

Instrument and Administrative Flexibility
AER questionnaires are scalable allowing for the addition of questions and dimensions in our inventory to custom-tailor your survey while preserving measurement integrity.
Web-based or paper survey methodologies are available and managed in-house by Scarlett Surveys to ensure employee anonymity and promote respondent trust. In-house handling ensures the quality of the data collection and the protection of your sensitive employee data. Most importantly, you are working with a privately owned company that cares.

Survey and Consulting Support
Scarlett Surveys can assist with administrative, proctoring, consulting and post-survey training support so your survey process is seamless, high value, and sustainable. Dashboard report summaries and in-depth engagement profiles provide you and your management team with a complete picture of prioritized opportunities for improvement, root cause and effect metrics by group and overall. This means you can begin fully engaging your employees quickly and precisely upon receipt of your AER Report of Results. These results can be used with the Scarlett Survey’s action planning and improvement system which is an assisted or unassisted process for tracking and improving employee engagement and business performance by leader and group. Many clients utilize our Engagement Leadership workshop to kick-start effective long term engagement leadership. Our process guide and coaching assistance ensures your survey roll out is smooth and professional.

AER™ – The Gold Standard of Employee Engagement Surveys
AER provides organizations like yours with proven and complete engagement metric profiles for proactively engaging and managing your human resources companywide. It is the only empirically validated employee engagement survey instrument composed of all 15 drivers of engagement which can be compared to a 15 million person data base. AER is fully supported and conducted by one of the most experienced and trusted names in consulting for over 48 years: Scarlett Surveys – The Survey Company ®.
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We provide…

Multi-million dollar survey software and processing system
Customizable and copyrighted survey instruments
Online, paper, telephone or face-to-face survey methodology
Data collection in over 19 languages
World-wide normative data
Professional project management
Pre/post survey communication tools
Automated action planning system
High security survey processing facility
In-house data libraries

Employee Survey Technology
Scarlett’s engagement surveys use the latest technology to compile well-organized and meaningful reports in a variety of different languages. Our entire product line is developed with cutting-edge Unicode capability to accommodate a substantial number of languages and character sets.

Enhance your business performance by choosing Scarlett Surveys. Our 45 years of experience have provided us with an extensive library of data and a wealth of industry wisdom. Become one of the leading industries that continue to use our surveys to guide their business.

The Survey Company® is the only provider of AER™ Employee Engagement Surveys and the 15 drivers of engagement.