Employee Motivation and Performance Assessment

EMPA Inc. president Dr. Palmer Morrel-Samuels is a research psychologist with extensive training and experience in statistical analysis and assessment design. Dr. Morrel-Samuels received a Master of Arts degree in research methodology from the University of Chicago, as well as a Master of Philosophy degree, and a Ph.D. in experimental social psychology from Columbia University. He has conducted research for IBM, the University of Chicago and Yale University, and has been a faculty member at Antioch Graduate School and the University of Michigan Business School. He has lectured extensively on survey design and organizational communication, and has written articles for a broad range of publications that includes The Journal of Experimental Psychology, Behavioral Research Methods, The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Harvard Business Review (in February of 2002 and in July of 2003). He has written patented leadership assessments for Xerox and EDS, and recently designed EMPA's patent-pending web-enabled survey. His work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times, and he was recently invited to brief Congress on employee motivation and performance assessment.