All Employee engagement articles – Page 165
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Holiday Extras and Roche UK shortlisted for engaging benefits
Holiday Extras and Roche UK are among the employers that have been shortlisted for the award ‘Most engaging benefits package’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2013.This award focuses on how an employer used benefits within its wider strategy to engage employees with the organisation. The winner will have demonstrated how ...
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Engagement is leading focus for employers
Almost three-quarters (74%) of respondents to The Benefits Research 2013 cited this as the top issue shaping their organisation’s benefits package. This figure has risen since 2009, when just under two-thirds (62%) said the same.But, when asked what action they plan to take in the next 12 months in response ...
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Employers ranked by CSR criteria
Diversity and inclusion were scored as the highest corporate social responsibility (CSR) indicators in the FTSE 100, according to research by Towers Watson and Business in the Community (BITC).The first Workwell FTSE 100 benchmark scored FTSE 100 companies against BITC’s Workwell criteria, which includes a total of 25 indicators across ...
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Emerging technology aids health strategies
Most organisations have a health engagement strategy in place, however, many do not take advantage of emerging technology to communicate this to employees, according to research by Buck Consultants and WorldatWork.The Emerging technology in health engagement research, which polled 400 multinational organisations, looked at the use and effectiveness of emerging ...
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Opinion
Viki Holton: How to motivate staff
They offer the right salary, more or less, they appreciate staff and make them feel valued; and extra effort is not taken for granted. Compare that to a business where staff feel overworked and underpaid, are micro-managed, unappreciated and, worst of all, the goals keep changing.The principles of employee engagement ...
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Employers plan to evolve health strategies
EXCLUSIVE: Almost two-thirds (69%) of employer respondents plan to develop their health and wellbeing strategies over the next two or three years, according to research by Towers Watson.Its Health, wellbeing and productivity survey 2012-2013 found that 15% of respondents plan to significantly increase their support over the next two or ...
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Employee Benefits Connect: Work environment will change radically
During the closing keynote presentation at Employee Benefits Connect, Millard (pictured) said: “Choice and control are two major themes we are looking at into the future.”Work is no longer constrained to the hours of nine to five because of globalisation and the need for staff to work across different time ...
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Employees want government to incentivise flexible working policies
The majority (82%) of employee respondents said the government must do more to incentivise organisations to implement flexible working policies, according to research commissioned by Plantronics and conducted by OnePoll.The research, The state of the flexible working nation, surveyed 2,000 UK employees to gain understanding of the UK’s changing working ...
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Engagement vital for business transformation
EB Connect 2013: The key to transforming a business and achieving maximum success is to motivate and engage all employees with the organisation and its objectives, according to Kevin Gaskell, former managing director of Porsche and BMW.Speaking in the opening keynote session ‘Turbulence and recession: the perfect opportunity’ at Employee ...
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Employers do not monitor wellness strategies' outcomes
Only 9% of employer respondents actively monitor and measure specific outcomes of their workplace wellness strategy against original objectives, according to research by Buck Consultants.Its Working well: a global survey of health promotion and workplace wellness strategies report, found that 74% of respondents do not measure the impact of their ...
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Engagement biggest priority for HR
More than half (62%) of organisations surveyed say employee engagement is their top HR priotity in 2013, according to research by law firm Speechly Bircham and King’s College London.However, the State of HR survey 2013: recovery in sight?, which polled more than 300 HR professionals across 13 industry sectors, also ...
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Case StudiesPeer 1 Hosting offers perks to attract top talent
A benefits package that attracts and retains the most talented staff while reducing employee costs is at the core of web hosting provider Peer 1 Hosting’s reward strategy.Designed primarily by managing director Dominic Monkhouse, the package has remained the same since the organisation’s UK operations started up in 2009.“I think ...
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Debbie Lovewell: Engaged staff can promote benefits value
I was speaking to a family friend recently who described the fantastic range of bene?ts they were offered by their employer. This friend had joined their current employer later in their working life from a completely different industry, where they had been offered little in the way of bene?ts. So ...
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Opinion
Karen Reid: Staff wellness plays role in engagement
When planning our wellness week, as well as being a ‘fun week’, we were conscious of the important role it should play in employee engagement. Our objective was to encourage staff to take steps towards a healthier lifestyle and set personal goals for the whole year.The week proved extremely successful. ...
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Mitie staff to participate in charity bike ride
Mitie employees are participating in the London Revolution cycle challenge to raise money for its charity partner City Gateway.More than 350 staff are taking part in the event, which will see up to 2,500 cyclists ride 180 miles around London over two days.The charity helps young people in London by ...
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Engineering partnership launches EBT
Marine Engineering Partnership (Mepship) has established an employee benefit trust (EBT) to become a wholly employee-owned organisation.The engineering consultancy was advised by Field Fisher Waterhouse in the establishment of the trust. The project team was led by Graham Nuttall, employee ownership and mutuals partner, and author of the Nuttall Review ...
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Verbal praise motivates employees
EXCLUSIVE: Giving staff verbal praise can have a significant impact on employees motivation, especially in a year when pay rises may be off the agenda, according to research by employee engagement organisation People Insight.Its research, How cash-strapped businesses can motivate staff without the need for a pay rise, was compiled ...
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Younger employees shun payroll giving
The research also found that only 1.9% of under-30s in employment gave through payroll, compared with 4.5% of staff aged between 30 and 49, and 3.9% of those between the ages of 50 and 64.Chantell Mills, senior company relations manager at CAF, said: “The generation gap was pretty big. Older ...
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Zenith boosts CSR strategy
Zenith is boosting its corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy by helping its employees to volunteer in the local community.This includes working with Leeds Ahead, an employee volunteering organisation, to allow staff from the leasing and fleet management firm to attend the Make the Grade event at Cranshaw School in Leeds. ...
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M&S boosts engagement via ideas scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Marks and Spencer (M&S) has seen participation levels in its latest employee suggestion scheme rise after the scheme was extended to 500 staff in its international sourcing offices.Its Big Idea scheme, which is jointly managed by the retailer and its employee representative network, was introduced in 2010 when an ...