All Employee engagement articles – Page 163
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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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Article
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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Article
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
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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Article
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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Article
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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Article
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 ...
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Opinion
Lynne Graham: How healthy eating is tied to employee engagement
Showing that you care about every aspect of the work experience is the bedrock of employee engagement. It provides the foundation of trust from which employees are prepared to work harder and smarter.We know that diet can have a massive impact on a person’s ability to do their job. We’re ...
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Article
Work-life balance policies crucial for talent
Individualisation is driving work-life balance strategies and HR policies, which is crucial if organisations are to achieve the talent they require to grow.Speaking at the Employee Benefits Summit in Alicante, Spain, in a session looking at ‘Workplace flexibility as a tool to boost productivity’, Dr Steven Poelmans, professor and director ...
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Article
Yorkshire Water engages staff in wellbeing strategy
Involving employees in health and wellbeing strategies is the best way for employers to see a return on investment.Speaking in a session titled ‘Are health and wellbeing solutions worth investing in?’ at the Employee Benefits Summit in Alicante, Spain on 26 June, Susan Gee, employee health and wellbeing manager at ...
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Article
ATS Euromaster invests in engagement
Tyre manufacturer ATS Euromaster has increased employee engagement, reduced absenteeism and decreased staff turnover following a three-year business turnaround programme.Speaking at the Employee Benefits Summit in Alicante, Spain on 25 June, Irene Stark, HR director at ATS Euromaster, described its programme in a session titled ‘How can engagement drive a ...
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Article
Duncan Brown: Fear not the key for motivation
Aon Hewitt has contributed, with its annual HR barometer of director priorities in organisations with more than two million staff in Europe, and the Global engagement trends study drawn from its database of five million employees.Although the economic indicators are, at last, suggesting the UK is spluttering into recovery, the ...