Rockville, MD - June 17, 2016 - In a ceremony held last night in Washington, DC, the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) was named a top workplace by The Washington Post. This is the third straight year ASHA has earned this recognition.
The Top Workplaces program is based on employee’s opinions of their employers. To assess this, The Washington Post partners with the company WorkplaceDynamics—which gathers feedback through its extensive employee survey. WorkplaceDynamics partners with more than 40 prestigious media partners across the United States to award top workplaces by region. It has surveyed more than 33,000 organizations and 11 million employees to date.
According to WorkplaceDynamics, organizations that score well in these three areas are ‘healthy’:
- Direction, which is about employees being emotionally bought into what the organization is striving to achieve.
- Execution, which is about the company having a high performance culture.
- Connection, which is about employees feeling they are being appreciated and doing something meaningful.
"We are honored to be recognized as a top workplace by The Washington Post for the third straight year," said ASHA CEO Arlene Pietranton, PhD, CAE. "At ASHA, we work hard to maintain a supportive and collaborative workplace that our employees are proud to be a part of—both because of how they are treated and the excellent work that they do on a daily basis to support our 186,000 members in the fields of audiology and speech-language pathology."
ASHA has a long record of fostering an environment that prioritizes work/life balance, wellness, social responsibility, diversity and inclusion, and professional development.
For more information about working at ASHA, visit www.asha.org/Careers/ASHA-jobs/WorkAtASHA/.
About the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 186,000 members and affiliates who are audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology support personnel; and students. Audiologists specialize in preventing and assessing hearing and balance disorders as well as providing audiologic treatment, including hearing aids. Speech-language pathologists identify, assess, and treat speech and language problems, including swallowing disorders. www.asha.org
