All Employee engagement articles – Page 162
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Employers fail to reward staff at Christmas
Two-thirds (65%) of respondents do not expect to receive a Christmas reward from their employer this year, according to research by Edenred.Its Saying thank you at Christmas 2013 survey, which questioned 1,000 employees, found that only 30% received a Christmas reward in 2012 and 35% of respondents have never received ...
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Case StudiesMcDonald's Restaurants built on motivation
McDonald’s incentivises and supports these desired behaviours through two bonus schemes for its 400 company-owned restaurants.Each month, all employees in the top 10% of restaurants, based on mystery shopper scores, receive a bonus. In addition, restaurant managers are eligible for a quarterly bonus based on three equally weighted measures: mystery ...
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Live Nation used merger to increase staff engagement
Live Nation Entertainment has faced a number of challenges in the way it engages employees following the merger between the concert promotion side of its business, Live Nation, and Ticketmaster in 2010.During the keynote session of Employee Benefits Live on 26 September, Brian Newman, vice president of HR at Live ...
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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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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 ...