All articles by Amanda Wilkinson – Page 4
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Employee Benefits Conference news: Communication should be two-way
Employers have been urged to embrace face-to-face communication in order to deliver key messages to staff.Speaking at the Employee Benefits Exhibition and Conference 2007, leadership and people management consultant, Jeff Grout, said communication should be a two-way process in order for employees to feel sufficiently engaged.He branded email as a ...
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Grab a soapbox and shout about your achievements
Amanda Wilkinson, Editor, Employee Benefits: The hard work of compensation and benefits practitioners often goes unnoticed in an organisation. Employees expect perks by right, finance perceives them to be a cost burden, and senior management often fail to understand the contribution that benefits can make.This lack of recognition can be ...
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Why should employers offer financial education?
reditEmployers may not always see the value in offering financial education but it can have quantifiable returns on investment, says Amanda WilkinsonFor employees, the benefits of employer provided financial education are clear as they become better equipped to make crucial decisions about their long-term future. However, some employers may well ...
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How to motivate high salaried staff without alienating others
Amid spiralling top-level pay and remuneration, there's much to consider in motivating talent without alienating the rest of the workforce, says Amanda WilkinsonThe impact of globalisation and an ageing population means it will become more difficult to recruit and retain talented staff in a tight labour market. An increasing number ...
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Data mining may vex HR, but it can unearth valuable insight
Amanda Wilkinson, editor of Employee Benefits: Do you ever get that feeling that you are drowning in data and don't know what to do with it?The use of technology has developed so much in the field of compensation and benefits that practitioners are potentially awash with information. The key is ...
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To continue to take perks' lead HR needs to raise its game
Amanda Wilkinson, editor Employee Benefits: The median cost of providing pensions and other benefits now stands at a significant 15% of the total pay bill, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's 2007 Reward Management Survey. Yet for many organisations, employee benefits do not warrant their own standalone ...
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Interview with Julie Osman: director of pensions and benefits at Eli Lilly and Company
The prospect of partnership at Ernst & Young was not enough to keep Julie Osman, director of pensions and benefits at Eli Lilly and Company, working for the firm as a chartered accountant. Instead, she was more interested in being involved in running a business and, as luck would have ...
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GNER launches holiday pay fund
GNER is launching a holiday pay fund scheme that will produce national insurance savings for both the rail operator and staff, having first had to obtain clearance from the Department for Transport.GNER joins a growing list of companies signing up to such schemes, although the rules behind them are currently ...
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Total Reward is helping to define a new era of benefits
'Total reward' may be a mis-used term but HR commentator Michael Armstrong believes the less obvious non-financial or intrinsic rewards, such as opportunities for growth, are of vital consideration, says Amanda WilkinsonTotal reward may be flavour of the month, but although the term first emerged in the US around ten ...
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Future benefits planning must meet the needs of all generations
Predicting the future is virtually an impossible task. However, compensation and benefits professionals will be expected to do just that in order to help their organisations win the global battle for talent in the future. Gaining insight and understanding into demographic and social trends such as the ageing population, globalisation ...
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Summit news: Employers face global battle for talent
HR and reward specialists at the Employee Benefits Summit were told that they face a global war for talent and will have to revise reward strategies to help recruit and retain employees in this group.Opening the summit in Jerez, Adrian Wooldridge, Washington Bureau Chief for The Economist, warned: “We are ...
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Cancer Research opts for cashless cafe culture
Cancer Research UK has made its staff cafés and restaurants cashless as a precursor to introducing salary sacrifice on food.The charity will have five sites in and around London with cashless restaurants or cafés, serving around 1,000 staff. Tom Russell, director of strategic resourcing and reward, said: "We have an ...
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Employee engagement
Employee engagement: an overviewEmployee engagement: flexible benefitsEmployee engagement: healthcareSponsor's comment: Staff aching for wellness schemesEmployee engagement: total rewardEmployee Engagement: pensionsSponsor's comment: Pensions need a keen specialist eyeEmployee engagement: company carsSponsor's comment: Reverse declining take-up of fleet perksEmployee engagement: financial educationEmployee engagement; rehabilitationSponsor's comment: Provider proximity is key to staff rehabilitation ...
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To create well-targeted benefits get to grips with behaviour
Understanding human behaviour has been an ongoing challenge for many of the world's greatest minds. While marketers, desperate to understand what makes consumers tick, have historically claimed ownership of behavioural science in the world of commerce, it can also be applied by HR in industrial relations through to benefits selection.But ...
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Summit news: Employers split on offering financial education
Employers were split fifty-fifty over whether it is their responsibility to offer financial education or advice to staff in a poll at the Employee Benefits Summit in Jerez.Only 37% of employers at the summit currently offer financial education or advice to employees.Harper Wright, financial capability manager for Bank of America ...
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HR has crucial role to play in future of organisations
Human resources has a crucial role to play in helping UK organisations adapt to key demographic trends and to compete with the emerging economic superpowers of China and India, Professor Richard Scase said at the HR Solutions & Employee Benefits Exhibition & Conference 2007.“HR is still not being taken seriously ...
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Employers should ensure occupational drivers are fully sight tested
Regulations force employers to provide eye tests for VDU users but there are still woeful shortcomings in checking the sight of occupational drivers, says Amanda WilkinsonEmployers may think they have all their legal obligations covered when it comes to optical care by providing eye tests to staff who habitually use ...
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Microsoft reviews perks
Microsoft UK is reviewing its benefits to ensure that it is targeting funds to achieve maximum impact. The software giant, which operates a flexible benefits scheme, is also extending its benefits statements to include sales bonuses and shares as part of a global initiative.Its benefits package ranges from an on-site ...
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Interview with Mary Giles, compensation and benefits manager at Microsoft
Mary Giles, compensation and benefits manager at Microsoft, tells Amanda Wilkinson that volunteering for new work opportunities helps career progressionArticle in fullFrom walking the Cumbrian Way to scaling Mount Kilimanjaro, Mary Giles, compensation and benefits manager at Microsoft, is up for a challenge. Not the type of person to be ...
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Smart managers learn the true value of staff training
Training isn't the first benefit that springs to mind when compiling a list of perks that are offered to staff. But employers are missing a trick if they fail to communicate the value of structured employee development as part of the total reward package, says Amanda Wilkinson, editor of Employee ...