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The story of each manager profiled in the book is interrupted mid-chapter to describe the psychology behind the particular question Gallup asks in its employee surveys. The most controversial of the statements, write Wagner and Harter, is the tenth: "I have best friend at work."
George Horace Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American pioneer of survey sampling techniques and inventor of the Gallup poll, a statistically-based survey sampled measure of public opinion.
The book is a result of observations based on 80,000 interviews with managers [3] as conducted by the Gallup Organization in the last 25 years. [when?] The book goes into detail on debunking old myths about management, and gives advice to employers on how to obtain and keep talented people in their organization. [4] Key ideas from the book include:
A record-high 80 percent of U.S. adults say Americans are “greatly divided” on the most important values, according to a recent Gallup poll. The survey does not define “most important values ...
A recent Gallup poll regarding American views on creation and evolution returned some unprecedented results. Poll: Beliefs in divine creation over evolution hit all-time low in US Skip to main content
The Gallup Poll Cumulative Index: Public Opinion, 1935–1997 (1999) lists 10,000+ questions, but no results. Gallup, George Horace, ed. The Gallup Poll; Public Opinion, 1935–1971 3 vol (1972) summarizes results of each poll. Geer, John Gray. Public opinion and polling around the world: a historical encyclopedia (2 vol. Abc-clio, 2004)
The American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is a professional organization of more than 2,000 public opinion and survey research professionals in the United States and from around the world, with members from academia, media, government, the non-profit sector and private industry.
The accuracy of Gallup's forecasts indicated the value of modern statistical methods; according to data collected in the Gallup poll, the Literary Digest poll failed primarily due to non-response bias (Roosevelt won 69 percent of Literary Digest readers who did not participate in the poll) rather than selection bias as commonly believed.