All Employee engagement articles – Page 152
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VIDEO: Jackie Buttery: Create a benefits agenda for a diverse workforce
She said: “The challenge is getting the right initiatives first and keeping momentum over the long term, beyond the launch phase and into further years of development.”The biggest challenge facing HR and benefits professionals is creating a sustainable benefits agenda that resonates with a diverse workforce, said Jackie Buttery, head ...
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ArticleAligning benefits to business strategies biggest engagement driver
More than one-third (42%) of employers consider the difficulties of aligning employees’ needs and desires with their organisation’s business objectives to be the biggest threat to future employee engagement, according to Employee Benefits/Lorica 100 Club research 2014, published in June. The next biggest threat is pay constraints, cited by 15% ...
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Key challenges in delivering the EVP of the future
If you read nothing else, read this…The employee value proposition (EVP) of the future must reflect employees’ evolving needs.Learning and development will be a key feature of future EVPs.Line manager performance is one of the biggest challenges facing HR and benefits professionals.Less than a quarter of respondents (22%) to the ...
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Article82% see cost as key barrier to benefits choice
More than two-thirds (82%) of employers in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) cited the increased financial burden on their benefits budget as the key barrier to implementing employee choice programmes.Its 2014 EMEA Employee choice survey in benefits report, which questioned 636 employers across 17 countries, found that 53% ...
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OpinionJenny Davidson: How can a reward strategy drive employee engagement?
In the past, pay and benefits have tended to be described as a ‘hygiene’ factor, with little impact on employee engagement. More emphasis was given to career development and employees’ relationship with their manager (leadership).The employee’s perception of pay and benefits, and how fairly they are rewarded within the organisation, ...
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ArticleDisengagement linked to high stress levels
EXCLUSIVE: Just over half (57%) of respondents who reported high levels of stress at work said they were disengaged, while 8% said they were highly disengaged, according to research by Towers Watson.Its 2013/14 Global benefits attitudes survey: developing a culture of health and wellbeing – UK results questioned 2,030 UK ...
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ArticleMcDonald's motivates staff with World Cup events
EXCLUSIVE: McDonald’s Restaurants is raising employee engagement in the workplace and boosting staff motivation with events based around the 2014 Fifa World Cup.The restaurant chain has held two competitions for employees themed around the football tournament, which kicks off today (12 June), to help bring the event to life in ...
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ArticleM&S to roll out staff wellbeing initiatives
Marks and Spencer is to roll out a series of new health and wellbeing initiatives for employees in 2015.In its Plan A Report 2014, published on 5 June, the retailer stated that it will:Establish measures and report on employee wellness to supplement the more traditional measures of employee engagement.Extend access ...
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ArticleMicrosoft hosts wellbeing week
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft has hosted its annual wellbeing week for 3,000 staff at its campus in Reading.Its Living Well 365 event, took place between 22 April and 2 May, supports the four pillars of the technology organisation’s wellbeing programme: physical wellness, emotional wellness, financial wellbeing and social wellbeing.It held a number ...
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ArticleEmployee engagement and wellbeing go hand in hand
Organisations that are searching for sustainable individual and business performance need to focus on both wellbeing and engagement, according to a white paper by Engage for Success.The evidence: wellbeing and employee engagement report sets out evidence for the link between employee engagement and wellbeing, and the consequential impact on individual ...
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ArticleEmployee wellbeing rises up the corporate agenda
Delegates at the Employee Benefits Summit, held on 14 and 15 May in Alicante, Spain, agreed that staff health and wellbeing is rising on the corporate agenda, with 26% of poll respondents citing a noticeable difference in senior management’s attitude towards employee wellbeing compared with five years ago.Neil Carberry, director ...
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VideoVIDEO: Wendy Cartwright: Leading-edge employers embrace wellbeing
Leading-edge employers are embracing wellbeing as something incredibly important for the business, said Wendy Cartwright, former HR director at the Olympic Delivery Authority, in an interview with Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits.“Organisations are trying to get more upstream, and trying to focus on being more positive and proactive in ...
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VideoVIDEO: Bob Hughes: The new psychological contract to engage employees
A new psychological contract has to come in to engage a developing workforce, said Bob Hughes, director of the Engage for Success Foundation, in an interview with Debbie Lovewell-Tuck, deputy editor of Employee Benefits.He said: ”Things have changed so much in the workplace, the whole world of work is changing.“Companies ...
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ArticleEngagement shapes benefits strategy for 72%
Employers’ desire to improve employee engagement remains the key issue shaping benefits strategies in 2014.Just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents to The Benefits Research 2014, which surveyed 256 respondents in March 2014, said the desire to improve staff engagement was the key issue shaping their organisation’s benefits package.This issue first ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis and Harrods top employers for pay and benefits
Retailers John Lewis, Harrods and Waitrose have been named the top three employers for compensation and benefits packages, according to a report by employer comparison website Glassdoor.com.Its inaugural Top 20 UK Companies for Compensation and Benefits report, which is based on reviews and feedback by UK employees, rated employers on ...
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ArticleCapital One named UK’s best large workplace
Capital One has been named the UK’s best large employer in the Great Place to Work Institute’s ‘UK’s Best Workplaces 2014’ awards.It is the second year running that the credit card organisation has won the award, which is based on an assessment of organisations’ workplace culture, employee engagement and management ...
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ArticleLloyds Banking Group supports staff volunteering
More than 5,000 employees from Lloyds Banking Group are to volunteer in their local communities on 16 May as part of Business in the Community’s (BITC) annual Give and Gain Day.Give and Gain Day is an annual event run by BITC and is the UK’s only national day of employee ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Should CEOs share bonuses with staff?
This month, about 19,400 of the retailer’s staff who have worked for the organisation for at least three years will receive a one-off bonus worth an average of 1.5% of salary after Wolfson announced his intention to share his £4 million payout from a share-matching plan with employees.This is not ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Engagement is driving benefits strategies
This covers issues such as the key trends shaping benefits strategies in 2014, what benefits employers offer and why they do so.At Employee Benefits, we have been carrying out research into this broad topic for more than a decade, so we are able to draw on a vast source of ...
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Barclays and BT lead public reporting on wellbeing
Barclays, British Land Company, BT, GlaxoSmithKline and the Royal Bank of Scotland Group have been identified as the leading FTSE 100 organisations that publicly report on employee wellbeing and engagement, according to research by Business in the Community (BITC).Its second Workwell FTSE 100 benchmark, which analyses information made available by ...