All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 120
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Payroll-giving donations fall
The proportion of employees donating to a payroll-giving scheme has seen a 12% decline, according to a report from Equiniti ICS.The HR and payroll services provider also found there has been a decline in donations of up to 50% since September 2008, coinciding with the recession.Alan Foley, director of Equiniti ...
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Smiths News extends payroll giving scheme
Smiths News is extending its payroll-giving scheme to its 400 Bertram Books employees.The scheme, provided by Workplace Giving UK, is now available to 5,300 staff at the newspaper and magazine wholesaler. Kerrie Colford, community programme manager at Smiths News, said: "We wanted to provide staff with a way to give ...
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Fair care portal offers charity giving option
Fair Care is to add a payroll-giving scheme to its voluntary benefits portal, Benefit Select, early next year once it has been granted HM Revenue and Customs’ approval.Staff will be able to save to a charity bank by making regular or ad-hoc payments to charities of their choice. The payments ...
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The Big Question: What festive rewards are you offering employees this year?
Louise McCabe, head of corporate responsibility at Asos.com:The weeks leading up to Christmas are a critical trading period for Asos, with many departments working atpeak capacity.As we near the holidays, the pressure in head office eases off and we are able to treat and thank our staff with some traditional ...
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Buyer's guide to long-service awards
Key factsWhat are long-service awards?These are awards designed to recognise an employee's loyalty and commitment over anything from one to 40-plus years. Awards can be in the form of cash, but non-cash gifts receive more favourable tax treatment.Where can employers get more information?More information about the tax treatment of long-service ...
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Staff should not expect lavish festive workplace celebrations
In this age of austerity employees may be wise not to expect much from festive workplace traditions such as the Christmas party.Research conducted by shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk found that despite all their hard work, less than half (46%) of employees will be treated to a work Christmas shindig this year.The ...
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Staff engagement linked to growing reward perception gap
Employee engagement levels have slipped back to lower than pre-recession levels due to a growing ‘reward perception gap’.Mercer's Employee Rewards, Benefits and Savings survey, which compiled responses from 79 UK organisations and 1,000 employees, found a striking disconnect between employers and employees on the perception and value of their organisation’s ...
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The Work Foundation research: Align employees' priorities with benefits
A deeper understanding of individual employee's priorities and needs may afford employers a degree of scope to change formal employee benefits arrangements as long as these do not alter the core component of the employment deal.Understanding the Deal, the fourth report in the Future of HR series by The Work ...
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Tesco gives staff Christmas perks worth £55 million
Tesco is giving its 280,000 UK staff Christmas benefits worth £55 million as a thank you.Each employee will receive up to £20 in vouchers as well as a booklet containing exclusive money-off vouchers worth a further £120.The retailer is also giving an additional day’s holiday to all employees which represents ...
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Siemens rewards employees with one-off special payment
Siemens intends to award its employees for their performance during the financial and economic crisis with a one-off special payment.A total of €310 million (£267 million) will be paid out to the company’s worldwide workforce.Peter Loscher, president and chief executive officer at Siemens, said: “The company came through the crisis ...
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Employers forecast average pay increases of 2.5%
Nearly half (46%) of private sector and 13% of public sector employers reported pay freezes last year.The Personnel Rewards Survey by Croner Reward, which polled 400 organisations and 250 personnel professionals, also revealed that, of those that did see an increase, the average award was 2%. For the coming year, ...
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Asda staff to receive £16m festive bonus
Asda is to present employees with a £16 million festive bonus to thank them for their hard work throughout 2010.The ‘Christmas Thank You’ package includes a £20 Asda gift card, a free festive meal and a 20% discount on a range of Asda products.The package will be available to each ...
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Dinamiks launches online employee performance management system
Dinamiks has launched an online employee performance management system.The system, called Dinamiks, includes two modules: competencies and values.The competencies module highlights where training is required, while values aligns staff, through behaviour change, to what the brand of their employer organisation represents and how it is perceived.Shirley Barnes, client relationship director ...
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Killing classes to take place this weekend
‘Killing classes’ will take place in Slough this weekend for civilians who want to learn military and police close combat techniques.Reality fighting expert Tim Larkin has spent 20 years running close combat training programmes and has trained senior executives at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse.The Target Focus Training ...
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CIPD Conference 2010: RSA increases employee engagement
Levels of employee engagement are up to 58% in 2010 at RSA Insurance Group, according to an internal survey conducted by Gallup.This is up from 45% in 2009 and 33% in 2008.During a session ‘Reinventing leadership to drive a culture of engagement’ at the 2010 CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition, ...
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Ethical incentives help meet Christmas business targets
A water powered calculator, a grow your own strawberries kit, an electric bike and white water rafting have been added to the eco-incentive scheme, Compliments Green, which is run by Edenred in partnership with Green Rewards.The range, has been extended to tie in with the festive season because this is ...
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Police Service of Nothern Ireland awarded best payroll giving scheme
The Police Service of Northern Ireland was awarded best overall payroll giving campaign at the National Payroll Giving Excellence Awards 2010.The service, which employs 10,060 staff and increased its payroll giving take up, while reducing staff numbers, was also awarded best campaign by a public sector employer.Other winners included: TNT ...
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Leisure Vouchers partners with Planet Hollywood
Leisure Vouchers has signed a partnership with Planet Hollywood.Organisations that offer Leisure Vouchers, which is part of Acorne, to their employees will now be able to offer access to Planet Hollywood’s new London restaurant, after it moved from its original location in the City's Trocadero centre to nearby Haymarket in ...
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Vinci Construction UK launches employee engagement initiative
Vinci Construction UK has launched an employee engagement initiative called ‘Stand Out, Make a Difference’.The initiative, which is a partnership agreement with the Construction Youth Trust, The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award and The Prince’s Trust, will allow the construction firm to engage with local communities, create chances for young people ...
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Sellafield links safety to reward and incentives
Nuclear plant Sellafield has given more than 5,000 rewards to employees since launching a reward scheme to encourage behavioural safety in the workplace at the beginning of April.Its Peer-to-Peer Observation programme and VIP (Virtual Incentive Points) reward account, which is provided by Love2reward, is available to more than 12,500 employees ...