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Case study: Flight Centre's engagement plan climbs high
Case study: Flight Centre's engagement plan climbs highFlight Centre promotes engagement using team activities and recognition.Fleur Stafford, employee engagement and development manager, explains: "It's important to us that our employees are engaged, that they think Flight Centre is a great place to work, will recommend us to their friends [as ...
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Case study: Camelot aligns reward with company values
Case study: Camelot aligns reward with company valuesCamelot aligns its reward package with company values to boost engagement levels.Steve Thompson, HR director, says: "From day one, it is critical that employees are engaged with our vision [of] serving the nation's dream, and understand they're part of our overall purpose, which ...
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Case study: QVC channels survey data
Case study: QVC channels survey dataHome shopping broadcaster, QVC, began measuring the engagement levels of its 2,300 UK employees last year when it ran a survey to identify the impact of employee engagement on its business performance.Frank Robinson, HR director, explains: "Providing an environment where people want to give their ...
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Case study: Network Rail staff signal change
Case study: Network Rail staff signal changeNetwork Rail, which manages the UK's rail infrastructure, has measured engagement since it took over Railtrack five years ago.Bob Hughes, talent and employee engagement manager, says: "We [effectively] needed to build a new company and change the culture so that we created a safe, ...
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Case study: Mace builds perks despite slowing markets
Case study: Mace builds perks despite slowing marketsConstruction consultancy Mace is continuing to bolster the benefits that it offers for staff, despite the tightening economic conditions.So far this year, it has already increased its employer pension contributions by one percentage point, introduced a cycle-to-work scheme and added one extra day ...
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Case study: FirstGroup drives in-house savings plan for staff
Case study: FirstGroup drives in-house savings plan for staffBus and rail operator FirstGroup hopes its financial education scheme will help employees ride out the credit crunch.The firm encourages its workers to save and borrow through company-sponsored credit unions, which are currently used by a third of its workforce. It also ...
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Case study: Hertfordshire Council cuts unique supplier deals
Hertfordshire Council cuts unique supplier dealsHertfordshire County Council negotiates its voluntary benefits direct with suppliers for strategic reasons.Its voluntary benefits are integrated into its work-life balance initiative rather than standing alone and benefits are only included if they add value to the council's three work-life policy strands of care, health ...
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Case study: Lee Valley Regional Park Authority
Case study: Glide through changeWhen Lee Valley Regional Park Authority introduced flexible working arrangements in 2006, one of the biggest barriers to the change was its management's traditional attitudes to working hours.Claire van der Most, HR manager, explains: "Our objective was to become an employer of choice. Staff turnover was ...
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Case study: Siemens uses modelling tools for pension education
Technology giant Siemens made extensive use of modelling tools last year when it moved from an array of final salary pension schemes to a defined contribution pension plan and took steps to standardise the way pension contributions were calculated.The change affected around 6,000 of Siemens UK's workforce, which numbers over ...
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Expatriate assignment reward policy at Brown-Forman Europe, Beverages
Case study on Brown-Forman Europe, Beverages as presented at the CIPD Seminar on Managing International Assignments on 5 March 2008.Speaker:Kim Miller, HR director – international, Brown-Forman Europe, Beverages.Company notes:One of the 10 largest wine and spirits companies in the world4,200 staff in 55 countries2,000 staff outside the USAOperate as a ...
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Expatriate assignment reward policy at BP
Case study: BP as presented at the CIPD Seminar on Managing International Assignments on 5 March 2008.Speaker:Carole Crossley, VP HR international mobility, BPCompany notes:An oil, gas, petrochemicals and renewable company98,000 staff with operations in over 100 countries3,500 expats in over 60 countries, from 55 different home countrieslarge number of international ...
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Case study: Unilever
Case study: Unilever sets clear objectives for planUnilever UK, which closed its final salary pension scheme to new employees in January 2008, has clear objectives for the plan.At the same time, it also reduced the minimum amount by which it increases pensions in payment from a 5% cap to 3%. ...
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Case study: Travis Perkins Group
Case study: Travis Perkins Group enables staff to build perksThe Travis Perkins Group enables staff to take up childcare vouchers, payroll giving and a cycle-to-work scheme through a salary sacrifice arrangement.However, the firm decided to adopt its own term, 'salary exchange', to describe tax-efficient benefits. Claire Williams, group reward manager, ...
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Case study: KCOM
Case study: Telecoms firm KCOM boosts take up with messagingYorkshire-based IT and communications service provider KCOM Group has just under 3,000 staff based around the UK and, last November, won an ifs ProShare award for the effective communication of its employee share scheme.Having run sharesave schemes and a share incentive ...
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Employer profile: Coors Brewers
Coors Brewers uses employee feedback to revamp perks as it works to evolve the company’s culture, says Debbie LovewellThe public would be forgiven for thinking that alcohol consumption is on the rise amid a flurry of newspaper headlines about teenage binge drinkers and excessive wine consumption among the middle classes. ...
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Case Study: Atkins
Case study: AtkinsEngineering consultancy Atkins is trying to clean up its act by persuading staff to switch to green cars. Last year, the company began rewarding workers who pick cars with carbon dioxide emissions of less than 160g/km.Iain Willetts, head of reward, says "We want to encourage those colleagues entitled ...
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Employee rewards and benefits at Lloyd's
Clare Bettelley speaks to Luke Savage about insurance market Lloyd’s titanic battle to retain employees at the not-for-profit CorporationThe challenge in attracting staff to Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance market formally known as Lloyd’s of London, is compounded by the fact that it is a not-for-profit organisation and lacks the ability ...
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Reducing absence at Virgin is not pie in sky
Case study: Reducing absence at Virgin is not pie in skyWhen looking to demonstrate a return on its benefits investment, Virgin Group looked at absence levels, recording these both before and after new healthcare benefits were introduced.One of the new benefits provided was an on-site physiotherapist to help employees deal ...
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BDO Stoy Hayward offers trust-based salary sacrifice plan
BDO Stoy Hayward offers a trust-based defined contribution (DC) scheme, into which staff can make contributions on a salary sacrifice basis through the company’s flexible benefits scheme.Staff can make additional voluntary contributions on top of those made from their flex allowance. Those who do so also receive a ‘special employer ...
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Punch Taverns' thirst for immediate perks
Case study: Punch Taverns' thirst for immediate perksLast year, Punch Taverns launched an instant reward programme for both its head office and pub employees to encourage staff to demonstrate the organisation's values.Through the scheme called Proud, which is an acronym of the company's values: P - pride, R - respect, ...