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2007 Award for Workplace Excellence Winners Announced

Employee Opinion Surveys Help Create Engaged,
Satisfied Employees Who Love to Come to Work

The 2007 winners of the Peter Barron Stark & Associates Award for Workplace Excellence™ have been announced. Many awards that claim to measure workplace excellence are based on responses provided by an administrator in a written questionnaire. The Award for Workplace Excellence is considered especially prestigious as it is solely based on actual employee feedback.

Peter Stark, President of Peter Barron Stark & Associates, shares the purpose of employee opinion surveys, “Through these surveys, employees believe their voice can be heard by management. And, once that voice is heard it can be acted upon to make positive workplace improvements.” Peter also believes that an Employee Opinion Survey “is the best gift an organization can give to its employees and customers.

Winners were selected based on criteria that included exceeding an 80% overall favorable response. The surveys measured employees’ responses in categories such as Communication, Leadership,Values, Work Environment, Motivation, Honesty, Integrity, Ethics, Commitment to Quality and Service, Benefits and Compensation. The winners for 2007 are:

  • American First Credit Union (La Habra, CA)

  • DCI Group (Washington, DC)

  • H.G. Fenton Company (San Diego, CA)

  • La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club (La Jolla, CA)

  • Mission Federal Credit Union (San Diego, CA)

  • Nicholas Applegate (San Diego, CA)

  • Phoenix Suns (Phoenix, AZ)

  • Western Growers (Irvine, CA)

Peter Barron Stark & Associates, a San Diego based Management Consulting firm, administers Employee Opinion Surveys to thousands of employees each year and is recognized as a leader in developing and improving successful corporate cultures where employees love to come to work and customers love to do business. www.employeeopinionsurveys.com

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