All Employee engagement articles – Page 142
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Looking forward and looking back
It may be a sign that I’m getting older, but time seems to fly past scarily quickly these days.It certainly doesn’t seem like a year, for example, since our last Employee Benefits Live.Reaching milestones in the year such as this always seem like a good time to stop and take ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: TalkTalk to discuss benefits engagement at Employee Benefits Live
TalkTalk will discuss benefits engagement strategies at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Sam Kirk, reward director at TalkTalk, will present the session titled Making employees fall in love with their benefits, alongside Dr Neil Lancaster, people and social responsibility director at Gamestec Leisure, on Tuesday 11 October.During the session, Kirk will provide ...
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ArticleCIPD and Engage for Success collaborate to progress engagement agenda
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and Engage for Success are to collaborate with the aim of progressing the employee engagement agenda.The CIPD will become the prime sponsor of Engage for Success, a not-for-profit, voluntary movement dedicated to increasing understanding of employee engagement in the workplace.The collaboration seeks ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Frontier Agriculture to discuss employer branding at Employee Benefits Live 2016
Frontier Agriculture will discuss the role of HR in reinforcing an organisation’s values and employer brand at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Jon Berry (pictured), head of human resources at Frontier Agriculture, will speak alongside Tim Kensey, HR director at Birds Eye Iglo Group, and Rebecca Seymour, head of HR at Peugeot ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Lawn Tennis Association to deliver keynote address at Employee Benefits Live
The Lawn Tennis Association will present the closing keynote address on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2016, highlighting how people and performance strategy can help an organisation to achieve its goals.Vicky Williams (pictured), director of people at the Lawn Tennis Association, will discuss the importance of having an ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Glassdoor to open Employee Benefits Live 2016
EXCLUSIVE: Diarmuid Russell, head of international at Glassdoor, will deliver the opening keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2016, when he will provide insight into how organisations can become known as the ‘best place to work’.Opening the conference on Tuesday 11 October 2016, Russell will discuss the themes and trends ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Work-life balance takes centre stage
How well does your organisation support employees’ work-life balance?This week, Glassdoor revealed the top 20 organisations providing employees with a good work-life balance, based on staff ratings submitted to the jobs and recruitment site. The list comprises employers from a wide variety of industry sectors, including Goodman Masson, Cisco Systems, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Samsung to discuss employee engagement at Employee Benefits Live
Joanna Bean, head of reward at Samsung, will discuss benefits communication and employee engagement at Employee Benefits Live 2016.She will deliver a session titled How to improve staff understanding of reward and benefits as part of the employee engagement conference stream on Tuesday 11 October.During the session, Bean will focus ...
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ArticleClassic Motor Cars launches employee ownership trust
Classic Motor Cars (CMC) has launched an employee ownership trust.Peter Neumark, chairman of the Shropshire-based car restoration organisation, transferred his majority shareholding into a new entity, the Classic Motor Cars Employee Shareholder Trust, on 26 August 2016, passing control for the business to a trust set up for its 60 ...
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ArticleDO NOT PUT ON WEBSITE: 9: ppl move: Attley moves to Epson
John Attley is moving to Epson in September 2016, where he will take on an HR specialist role that focuses on employee engagement, retention and recognition for Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA).Attley joins from the National House Building Council (NHBC), where he held a number of roles, including communications ...
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ArticlePaycare introduces paid volunteering leave
Paycare has given its employees two additional days of paid leave so that they can undertake charity and volunteering work.The Wolverhampton-based health cash plan organisation launched the initiative in June to enable staff to support worthwhile causes of their choice.A number of employees, including senior management, have taken up the ...
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ArticleChiswick Park holds Olympics-themed event for employees
Chiswick Park Enjoy-Work hosted an Olympics-themed ‘Winner Takes It All’ event on Friday 5 August 2016 as part of its summer activity programme.The event was open to employees from the 45 organisations on site, which include Ericsson, Halliburton, Swarovski, and the Walt Disney Company.The lunchtime event, which ran between 12pm ...
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ArticleHow to motivate Whitehall's feline employees
Something for the weekend: UK government officials are adding chin rubs, belly strokes, and plenty of cuddles to their employee motivation and reward strategies as they welcome new hire Gladstone, the latest cat to join Whitehall's mouse-catching team.Based at the Treasury, the one-year-old, short-haired black cat has been named after ...
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The top 10 ways to hang on to your staff – and attract new ones
With competition for top talent increasing, companies with the best reputations for people management will win. But what does it take to be a great people leader? Leah Reynolds, a principal within Xerox engagement practice, shares her expertise.1. Show respectMany leaders say their people are their greatest asset, but their ...
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ArticleRoyal College of Nursing celebrates centenary with year-long staff activity programme
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is running a year-long programme of engagement activities for its staff to mark its 100th birthday, including a reward scheme, walks and runs, and a number of charity initiatives.In recognition of the role employees have played over its 100-year history, the RCN introduced a ...
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Benefits in action: how Advent took a fresh look at its benefits
In September 2014, Advent conducted an employee survey that highlighted a number of areas where the benefits package was overlooked or was not fully valued by the workforce. Benefits were not regularly promoted impacting on overall awareness. In response to the feedback, Advent appointed Xerox HR Services early in 2015 ...
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OpinionBenjamin Fletcher: Benefits that recognise the diversity of employees’ lives can aid engagement
The world of work today is very different to even 10 years ago, and so too are employee expectations. Traditional work and home life divides have diminished as a generation grew up connected by and accustomed to sharing their lives on social media. Work and home-life separation has also come ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Benefex and EY partner on employee engagement
EXCLUSIVE: Professional services organisation EY has partnered with employee benefits provider Benefex to offer employee engagement solutions.The organisations will work together to provide employee benefits and engagement technology alongside consulting services with the aim of enhancing people performance, staff engagement, and talent attraction and retention.The collaboration will see EY deliver ...
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ArticlePartick Thistle Football Club recruits for ‘best job in the world’
Something for the weekend: Scouring online sites for a dream job could be at an end, as Partick Thistle Football Club advertises for what it describes as the best job in the world: taking on the role of club mascot Kingsley, a large yellow thistle.Looking for a candidate who is ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 69% use annual employee surveys to measure engagement
EXCLUSIVE: More than two-thirds (69%) of employer respondents who measure employee engagement use annual employee surveys to do so, according to research by Employee Benefits and Xerox HR Services.The Benefits research 2016, which surveyed a total of 338 employer respondents, also found that 21% use pulse-style surveys to measure staff ...