All Employee engagement articles – Page 155
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Article
Employee happiness drives productivity
Employees are more productive when they are happy, rather than happy when they are productive, according to Simon Nash (pictured), HR director at law firm Carey Olsen.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live 2013 on 25 September, Nash claimed that this common employer misconception of motivation is a result of organisations working ...
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Opinion
Stephen Menko: A happy workforce is a productive one
At a time when employees are often faced with increasingly tight deadlines and managers are tasked with getting more from limited budgets or personnel, every aspect of working practice is being evaluated by HR professionals to see what might yield better results.There is certainly a changing perception among HR professionals ...
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Opinion
Peter Nuttall: Happy staff equals happy customers
Yet, employee engagement remains one of the three top challenges facing organisations.It is important that employees are treated as customers, sovereign within an employer’s internal marketing efforts and crucial to the delivery of an organisation’s promise to its external consumers. Underestimating the emotional bonds employees desire to have with the ...
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Article
Debi O'Donovan: You can only motivate staff face-to-face
As I made my way round the conferences, press briefings and employer meetings trying to absorb all things HR and benefits as quickly as possible, I learned that the psychological contract is the unwritten set of mutual beliefs, perceptions and informal obligations between employer and staff.It is all the stuff ...
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Supplier article
Nik Butcher: Communicating with a diverse workforce
Nik Butcher (pictured), total rewards manager, Europe, Middle East and Africa at Kao Group will speak at Employee Benefits Live on 25 September about communicating with a diverse workforce.Employee Benefits asked him a few key questions.1. What has been your biggest challenge in 2013?The biggest challenge this year has been ...
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Supplier article
Jenny Davidson: Proving ROI on reward and benefits spend
Jenny Davidson (pictured), former director of compensation and benefits at CSC, will speak at Employee Benefits Live on 26 September about proving return on investment (ROI) on reward and benefits spend in the current economic environment.Employee Benefits asked her a few key questions.1. What has been your biggest challenge in ...
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Opinion
Catherine Park: How to involve staff in benefits
These should be based on employee research to enable employers to find out what benefits their staff value. Employee surveys can help identify these preferences, but is important for employers not to rely on just one method of communication, such as email surveys, because a proportion of staff will not ...
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Article
Duncan Brown: Good economic growth via staff management
But in a thought-provoking article published on 25 July, City AM’s editor, Allister Heath, questions the nature and sustainability of this recovery and says: “We must urgently improve the quality of our economic growth.”After the last four years, any growth might seem ‘good’.But Heath perceptively distinguishes between ‘good’, sustainable, long-term ...
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Case Studies
RSA involves staff in benefits to boost take up
Ed Airey, UK reward manager, says the journey reflects the organisation’s progression from providing a benefits package that is just there for staff to find, and if they find it, then they use it, to one that better understands what employees want.“Also, it is understanding better some of our different ...
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Analysis
Karen Gaynor: Total reward and the employer value proposition
Karen Gaynor (pictured), head of reward, UK and north-west Europe at Siemens will speak at Employee Benefits Live on 25 September about total reward and the employer value proposition.Employee Benefits asked her a few key questions:1. What has been your biggest challenge in 2013? The readiness for auto-enrolment has taken ...
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UK bucks global trend for wellbeing dip
Employee owners are the happiest workers in the UK, according to research by global workplace provider Regus.Its annual Work-life balance report, which is based on a poll of 26,000 professionals across the globe, reveals a worldwide dip in wellbeing over the last year, but the UK bucks this trend, up ...
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UPS staff donated 1.8m volunteer hours in 2012
UPS employees donated a record 1.8 million volunteer hours in 2012.According to the global logistics organisation’s Corporate sustainability report 2012, which was published in July, employee volunteers logged 309,520 hours in October 2012 during Global Volunteer Month, which took the year’s total number of volunteer hours to a new record ...
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Analysis
Andrew Woolnough: Benefits that drive staff engagement
Aon Hewitt’s latest Global Engagement Trends report revealed that pay, the extent to which employees believe they are fairly paid for their contribution to an organisation’s performance, is the third most important driver of employee engagement. In traditional engagement research, pay is often thought of as a hygiene factor. This ...
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Video
VIDEO: Susan Gee: It is shortsighted not to invest in staff wellbeing
It is shortsighted not to invest in employee health and wellbeing, said Susan Gee, employee health and wellbeing manager at Yorkshire Water, in an interview with Debbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits.She added: “When you employ someone, they have got skills that are going to help you achieve your ...
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VIDEO: Irene Stark: Employee engagement provides commercial advantage
Employee engagement provides employers with a commercial advantage by encouraging high productivity levels and boosting morale, said Irene Stark (pictured), HR director at ATS Euromaster, during an interview with Debbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits.She added: “[A culture of engagement can be created] by looking at the right things ...
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AnalysisReward's role in building trust
If you read nothing else, read this…Organisational trust is based on co-operation, co-ordination and collaboration.Employers should be realistic to staff about their employment proposition.Robust service level agreements are not the only way employers can build trust-based relationships with providers.A desire to rebuild employee and investor trust was clearly at the ...
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Article
Thomsons enhances benefits platform
Thomsons Online Benefits has launched a new version of its Darwin employee benefits platform.The New Darwin Reward Centre tool is aimed at tablet users and provides employees with greater access to information, with the aim of engaging the workforce and enabling employees to make more informed decisions around their benefits, ...
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National Grid aligns global recognition
EXCLUSIVE: National Grid employees have shared more than 13,000 recognition moments globally.It initially launched the pilot recognition programme for 3,000 UK employees in April 2012. In April 2013, the programme was rolled out to the rest of the utilities firm’s 15,000 UK and US employees.Following the merger between its UK ...
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Propellernet rewards staff with dream scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Propellernet has introduced a staff motivation scheme to help employees achieve their dreams.The scheme, Dream Balls, is about ensuring the social media organisation’s 42 employees share in its collective success.Nikki Gatenby (pictured), managing director at Propellernet, said: “Our whole ethos, our whole reason for being, is enjoying the workplace. ...
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BITC enhances engagement and wellbeing guidelines
Business in the Community (BITC) has launched a new version of its public reporting guidelines on employee engagement and wellbeing.The guidelines, which were first launched in May 2011 to help organisations implement consistent reporting on employee engagement and wellbeing, now also include detail informed by the expectations of the investor ...