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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees
WINNERMcDonald’s RestaurantsThis entrant significantly reduced staff turnover and increased sales after successfully linking its reward strategy to the needs of the business. The fast food chain discovered a correlation between employee engagement and business performance. For example, in restaurants where staff were engaged, sales were on average 28% higher and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees
WINNERBarbon Insurance GroupThis business was formed in difficult circumstances in 2008. Not only did it have to deal with the fall-out from the financial collapse of its parent company and a decline in profits, but staff turnover was high and increasing, and low levels of morale were contributing to rising ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective motivation or incentive strategy
WINNERMerlin Entertainments, Merlin Global Recognition Schemes: Star and CEO Award PlanMerlin Entertainments impressed the judges with its introduction of two global motivation and recognition schemes for all staff after rolling out new company values across the business. The new schemes replaced more than 20 previous ones, which were owned at ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Benefits team of the year
WINNERKraft Foods, entered by BenefexThe benefits and reward team at Kraft Foods successfully tackled the huge challenge of harmonising employee terms and conditions in 2011 following the organisation’s high-profile acquisition of Cadbury.For the Cadbury acquisition to be a success, each member of the team was involved in the complex task ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits specialist of the year
WINNERFrancis O’Mahony, head of employee share plans and share registration, BTFrancis O’Mahony was voted this year’s Employee Benefits Specialist of the Year because of his pioneering work on workplace savings and dedication to financial education at BT. This year, BT took the award for ‘Most effective strategy to encourage workplace ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits professional of the year
WINNER Debra Corey, group compensation and benefits director, Merlin EntertainmentsDebra Corey is a much-admired, charismatic and highly respected figure in the employee benefits world. Before joining Merlin Entertainments, she had built up a high profile in reward by taking on the challenges of senior roles at a number of well-known ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Grand Prix
WINNERMcDonald's RestaurantsMcDonald's Restaurants was voted winner of this year's Grand Prix award because of its textbook approach to aligning its reward strategy with the needs of the business and its effective development of an employee brand.The organisation reduced staff turnover and increased sales significantly after discovering a strong correlation between ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Meet the Judges
Panel chairDebi O’Donovan is editor of Employee Benefits and is responsible for editorial strategy across events, web and the magazine.Panel chairDebbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits, is an award-winning journalist who is responsible for news and features across the magazine and website.Panel chairDev Raval is director of reward at ...
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EXCLUSIVE: McDonald's Restaurants wins Grand Prix at Employee Benefits Awards
McDonald’s Restaurants, Merlin Entertainments, BT and Kraft Foods were among the big winners at this year's Employee Benefits Awards, which took place at the Artillery Garden at The HAC on 31 May.McDonald’s Restaurants took the coveted overall Grand Prix prize, plus the category award for ‘Most effective alignment of reward ...
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Winners of the Employee Benefits Awards announced
The 2012 Employee Benefits Awards took place at The Artillery Garden at the HAC in London on 31 May.Hosted by Jason Byrne on behalf of Employee Benefits magazine and celebrating the best in benefits, just 24 winners were selected from 100 finalists.More details and photos will be added to this ...
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GE, Kraft Foods and Virgin Media among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012
GE, Home Retail Group, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s Restaurants and Virgin Media are among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012.Other finalists include:'Benefits team of the year':AvivaCancer Research UKKraft FoodsLinklatersMarks and Spencer'Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees':Everything EverywhereGEGrant ThorntonJLT ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective use of a voluntary benefits plan
WINNERCancer Research UK, CR-UK RewardsThe judges were impressed by this charity organisation’s belief that, if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. When Cancer Research UK’s previous voluntary benefits scheme suffered from very low take-up levels, a lack of promotion and a sign-up process that seemed to discourage staff ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective use of a flexible benefits plan
WINNERCisco, i-Benefit@Cisco entered by Thomson Online BenefitsCisco was the outright winner in this category because of its input from top leadership, the speed at which the new package was delivered to staff, its focus on aligning its employee profile and business brand, and the impressive savings worth more than £1 ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective travel strategy for business and perk car drivers
WINNERInterserve Project Services, Fleet Carbon Reduction Scheme entered by The Miles ConsultancyThis entrant’s UK car strategy is closely aligned with its business needs to provide transport for almost 1,300 drivers, as well as its corporate social responsibility goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Almost all the fleet is classified as ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective pensions strategy
WINNERInstitution of Civil Engineers entered by SecondsightThe Institution of Civil Engineers Group dealt with the closure of its final salary pension scheme in a fair and responsible way, while taking into account employees’ negative reactions to the changes. Generous employer-funded contributions were offered for members to sweeten the pill for ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective sickness absence management strategy
WINNERCisco, i-Benefit@Cisco entered byThomsons Online BenefitsAs winner of this category, Cisco demonstrated the implementation of a sickness absence management scheme that reduced the high number of staff on long-term sick leave and tackled the underlying causes of ill-health.With a high-performing culture and long working hours, Cisco was affected by high ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective motivation or incentive strategy
WINNERThe Pensions Trust, Rewards and Benefits ProgrammeA key part of this entrant’s people strategy is what it describes as the deal between the employer and the employee. This refers to what it means to work for The Pensions Trust and the benefits of the employment relationship for both parties. A ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective benefits strategy for working parents or carers
WINNERUniversity of Lincoln, UOL Total Reward and WellbeingThe clear winner in this category, this entrant proved that public sector funding is not an obstacle to offering a wide scope of benefits to achieve a healthy work-life balance.The diverse workforce at the University of Lincoln includes a number of people with ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 staff
WINNERCA Technologies, Balance Your LifeThis technology firm launched its wellness programme, Balance Your Life, in May 2009 for its 790 UK employees, because it saw a need to introduce a programme to combat steadily increasing healthcare costs resulting from higher-than-average claims for its sector. It also wanted to address the ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2011: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 staff
WINNERAmerican Express Services Europe, Healthy LivingStrategy and ProgrammeThis entrant won this category in recognition of the work it has delivered to employees in promoting health and wellbeing as a global strategy.American Express began implementing its Europe, Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Healthy Living Strategy and Programme in February 2010 and ...