All Employee engagement articles – Page 162
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AnalysisTop five long-service awards for employees
The days of carriage clocks and gold watches as long-service awards are fast disappearing, replaced by gift vouchers and electrical goods as the top gift choices for loyal employees. If you read nothing else, read this… Long-service awards vary across different organisations. The most common long-service awards tend to be ...
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Opinion
Suzanne Hughes: Embedding wellbeing and engagement in the workplace
EXCLUSIVE: As a major employer in the UK, understanding levels of employee engagement and wellbeing at Santander is critical. It’s well known that better engaged people are happier people, and the bonus is that the research tells us happier people are more productive too.To help us continue to track and ...
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Article
Effective employee value propositions engage staff
Global organisations that use an employee value proposition (EVP) most effectively are five times more likely to report that their employees are highly engaged, according to research by Towers Watson.Its Change and communication ROI survey, which questioned 207 large and mid-sized organisations in Asia, Europe and North America, found that ...
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Article
Britvic recognised for employee engagement
Britvic Soft Drinks has been recognised for its employee engagement excellence with the Good Employer Award at the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) Awards.The awards celebrate organisations across the food and drink industry that make an extra effort to create a positive working environment for employees.Britvic was recognised for its ...
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AnalysisHow to identify motivation cold spots
If you read nothing else, read this…Organisational change can create unrest in a workforce.Line managers can play an important role in identifying any engagement and motivation issues.Recognition schemes with clear objectives can help to re-engage and re-motivate staff.Management changes, office relocations and restructuring exercises have been common occurrences during the ...
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OpinionDavid Webb: Make the most of change
Yet mention change and often the initial reaction is hostile. We can still be locked into a primeval fear of the unknown.Many employers recognise the need to manage change effectively to keep staff working at their best. Handling change badly can have a wider, damaging impact on how an employer ...
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Case Studies
ATS Euromaster re-engages staff through change programme
Five years ago, the organisation was making a financial loss, so newly-appointed group HR director Irene Stark was tasked with helping the business return to profit. “We decided that the best way to do this, and to make sure that any sort of change was sustainable, was to do it ...
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Article
Debbie Lovewell: Rethink motivation approach
Last month, the Global employee engagement trends report 2013, by management consultancy Hay Group, found that, in the UK, almost half (44%) of employees included in its sample do not believe their employer plays its part in motivating them. Also, 41% said conditions in their job do not allow them ...
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Article
Keynote speakers inspired at Employee Benefits Live
During two packed days of top-level conference sessions, numerous leading employers and industry experts shared their experiences and expertise on a wide range of topics from pensions auto-enrolment, healthcare and wellbeing, flexible benefits and tax-efficient benefits to name but a few.Closing the first day of the conference, seven previous Employee ...
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Analysis
Motivational sporting events to follow in 2014
In fact, more than one-third (34%) of delegates at the Employee Benefits Summit in 2012 offered themed events for staff during the games.If you read nothing else, read this…An employee motivation scheme can be themed around a major national or international event, such as the Winter Olympics.A scheme should have ...
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AnalysisThe motivational impact of sports and social clubs
If you read nothing else, read this…Sports and social clubs help build employee engagement and motivation.Clubs can help employers support employees’ emotional and physical wellbeing.Clubs are typically created and run by employees, but often funded by employers.Clubs are typically initiated and run by employees, but they are owned and ...
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Article
Google named best multinational workplace
Google has been named the best global company to work for by The Great Place to Work Institute.Its 2013 Top 25 World’s best multinational workplaces list, which recognises employers with high trust and high engagement cultures, ranked Google at number one, followed by business analytics software organisation SAS Institute, data ...
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Article
44% do not feel motivated at work
Almost half (44%) of respondents do not feel motivated in the workplace, according to research by management consultancy Hay Group.Its research is based on its Insight database, which includes information from more than 400 organisations across 46 countries, representing 6.7 million employees.The research found that levels of engagement in the ...
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Article
Employee recognition more important than ever
The first, a survey conducted among 3,000 employees by Research Now on behalf of Capita Employee Benefits, found that being thanked or recognised for work is the second most popular employee benefit, after a pay rise.Michael Rose, director at Rewards Consulting, said: “Because the economy is tight and pay increase ...
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Article
Debbie Lovewell: Publicising benefits is key
Despite investing significant amounts of money developing a benefits package to suit their workforce’s needs, often including a wide range of perks, some organisations then fail to communicate these to their employees properly.When you think of the work that goes into developing a benefits strategy, communication may seem like a ...
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Case Studies
John Lewis Partnership offers staff sports and social activities
And so a sailing club was set up to enable the average employee to sail a boat.The sailing club still operates today and is the most popular club offered by the retailer. The partnership owns its own yachts and pays for their upkeep, an investment the organisation has made as ...
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Article
Sickness absence levels up slightly
Sickness absence is back up to the levels observed in 2010 and 2011, at an average of 7.6 days per employee per year, following a small decrease in 2012, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).The annual CIPD/Simplyhealth Absence management survey, which was completed by ...
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Article
RCN awarded for focus on staff wellbeing
Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has been awarded for its workplace health programme.The Royal Society of Public Health (RSPH) Health and Wellbeing Awards, which highlight achievement in the development and implementation of health promotion and community wellbeing, presented the award to RCN for its commitment to the health and wellbeing ...
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Video
VIDEO: Brian Newman: Substitute engagement for involvement
Employers should substitute the word ‘engagement’ for ‘involvement’, said Brian Newman, vice president of HR at Live Nation International, during an interview with Debbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits.He added: “To me, it’s about using every opportunities to engage our employees in strategic direction, social events, with learning activites ...
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Article
BITC launches 2014 Workwell benchmark
EXCLUSIVE: Business in the Community (BITC) has launched its 2014 Workwell benchmark, which aims to measure organisations’ management of employee wellbeing and engagement in the workplace.The benchmark, which is based on a questionnaire, also aims to help employers create healthy, engaged and flexible workforces.BITC will publish the results in April ...