All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 128
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Royal Bank of Canada staff raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital
Staff from the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) have taken part in a five-kilometre fun run in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital.More than 350 of the bank’s employees, friends and families took part in the RBC sponsored Race for the Kids in Battersea Park, London, on 6 June.In total, ...
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Red Letter Days launches corporate events website
Red Letter Days has launched a website offering organisations a range of corporate events, that can be used as a way of rewarding, developing, engaging and entertaining staff.The events are divided into categories such as team building, activity days, incentives, and hospitality and mobile events.Heather Rogers, director of sales at ...
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Inchcape Fleet Solutions’ staff raise money for charity
More than 160 staff and directors at Inchcape Fleet Solutions spent a day fundraising on 28 May, donating more than £2,000 to registered charity Guide Dogs.The vehicle leasing and fleet management organisation manages the charity’s 520-strong fleet and donates a percentage of its annual management fee back to Guide Dogs.The ...
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Case Studies
Case Study: TD Waterhouse
Stockbroker TD Waterhouse International knows the importance of keeping staff in smaller offices motivated. The firm’s headquarters is based in Leeds, but it has smaller offices in Manchester, Birmingham, London and Luxembourg. Just six staff are based in its London office.Ann Broughton, senior manager HR, facilities and procurement, says keeping ...
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Case Study: Bupa
Bupa offers its staff a range of volunteering opportunities, including team-building challenges that highlight causes close to employees' hearts, teaching local schoolchildren about healthy eating, and an international biannual charity project.Bupa's first project in 2007 saw 60 employees travel to northern Thailand to work in an orphanage. Almost all (98%) ...
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Flexible working is most popular benefit
Flexible working is the most valued benefit for employees, ahead of bonuses according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).Its Managing Tomorrow’s People found flexible working arrangements were rated the most important benefit by 47% of respondents, compared to performance-related bonuses which came second (19%).The results come as the new coalition government ...
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Charitable benefits are a good motivator
Charitable perks can do wonders for employee engagement and will enhance an employer’s image as a caring organisation, says Jennifer PatersonApart from their main functions of attracting, engaging and retaining staff, benefits can also be used to support an organisation’s wider strategies, such as corporate social responsibility (CSR). Here, staff ...
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Care UK launches an employee recognition programme for hospital staff
Managers can nominate members of their team who go the extra mile. These staff are given access to an online portal where they can select a gift. They can also bank points to save for a larger gift.Lisa McGill, HR manager at Care UK, said the scheme, provided by Michael ...
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Recognition of employees working remotely
If you read nothing else, read this...Poor communication, physical distance from the employer’s main location and a tendency to be overlooked by managers can lead to a drop in motivation for remotely-located staff.Employees based away from the main workplace may feel detached, and one way to combat this is through ...
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Naked Office TV series raises questions about reward
The return of the television show The Naked Office raises questions about what benefits should be provided for employees that come to work in the buff.Seat warmers, fake tan and dress-up Fridays are just a few perks that may be appreciated by nude staff members.On the other hand, employers might ...
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Microsoft named as the best place to work in Europe
Microsoft has been named as the best place to work in Europe for the third year in a row.The firm won the Best Large Workplace in Europe 2010 award at a gala ceremony at the Great Place to Work Institute's European conference in Madrid.Microsoft caught the eye of the judges ...
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Employers deem work-life initiatives integral to total reward
More than half (59%) of multinational organisations consider work-life initiatives as a staple of total rewards.According to The State of Total Rewards Integration survey by WorldatWork and Mercer, which polled 741 multinational organisations, when asked to define total reward, the majority of respondents included work-life balance, such as flexible work ...
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Half of UK employees are consulted on voucher preferences
More than half (53%) of employees are consulted on which vouchers they would prefer to receive as a reward or incentive, according to a poll by The Voucher Shop.Paul McRae, business development manager at The Voucher Shop, said: “Consulting with employees on which vouchers they would like to receive is ...
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Half of organisations do not carry out annual employee engagement surveys
Only 59% of UK organisations carry out annual or half-annual employee engagement surveys, according to a poll conducted by employee communication consultancy Caburn Hope.Three-quarters (78%) of respondents confirmed they have conducted some form of employee feedback or employee engagement survey, but only 19% of these were on an ad-hoc basis.Chris ...
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Research: Music in the workplace boosts staff morale
Research this week showed that playing music in the workplace is a cost efficient way to improve staff morale.A survey of 1,200 workers conducted by the MusicWorks campaign, which aims to encourage businesses to play more music, found that 71% of employees wanted music played in the workplace. It also ...
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John Lewis celebrates 10 years of community giving
The John Lewis Partnership has donated 181,000 hours of staff (known as 'partners' within the firm) time to charities over the past decade through secondments.To mark the 10th anniversary of its community giving programme, the Golden Jubilee Trust, the retailer is financing ten additional partner secondments at a cost of ...
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Workplace Options offers tips for workplace strategies during the World Cup
Employee benefits provider Workplace Options is offering upon-request packets to both employers and employees containing tips and information for enjoying next month’s World Cup while still maintaining an effective and efficient workplace.The tips include: reiterating company policy on time away from work, and encouraging employees who are able to take ...
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Biscuits more likely to survive cost cutting than pensions
The pulling power of the humble biscuit has not gone unnoticed by cost-conscious employers who are more likely to cut pension contributions than the snack.Research commissioned by Abbey Legal Protection has shown organisations are more likely to preserve their client biscuit budget than core benefits and even staff themselves.Its Protection ...
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Employees plan to use more holiday entitlement in 2010
More than a third of UK workers (38%) did not use up all their holiday allowance in 2009, compared to 81% of staff who intend to take all their annual leave in 2010.The findings, from the Institute of Payroll Professionals’ (IPP) Time for a holiday survey, also revealed 28% of ...
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Case Studies
Case Study: Segro builds up individuals
Commercial property investment and development company Segro spontaneously hands out Red Letter Day experience vouchers worth £250 to individual employees to recognise good work and thank them for a job well done.But the incentives are not one-offs, says Mark Pearce, the company's UK HR director. "There is no limit to ...