All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 134
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Asda offers Christmas perks to staff
Asda is to launch festive instant reward scratch cards to boost employee morale and motivation during the Christmas period.The scheme, called 'Thanks for going the extra mile', will allow line managers to nominate members of Asda's 4,500 store-based workforce to receive a card which, when scratched, will reveal a prize. ...
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Case Studies
Case Study: Liverpool Women’s NHS Trust uses vouchers to reward staff
When the Liverpool Women's NHS Financial Trust achieved a high performance rating for its services in a report published last year by the Healthcare Commission, the trust's board of directors decided to show staff their appreciation by providing them with a Christmas gift.The board recognised that the trust's outstanding performance ...
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Cracking Christmas ideas to motivate staff
A cheap and cheerful Christmas may be the best many employers can afford to offer their staff this year, says Sarah ColesChristmas is traditionally a time for overindulging on food and letting out the waistband. Un- fortunately, this year there will be an unseasonable amount of belt-tightening as the economic ...
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Richard Tyler, compensation, benefits and HRIS manager at Alcatel-Lucent: Benefits play key role in successful mergers
Companies have long used mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a way of strengthening their market position, increasing their global footprint and, or, bringing together the talent and resources of employees in order to challenge competitors. One of the most important aspects of any M&A activity is to ensure all staff ...
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Employee Benefits Live: Creating a positive environment crucial in a downturn
Employers have been warned that the current economic turmoil made it more important than ever to create a positive working environment built on trust otherwise they will risk loosing key talent once the downturn is over.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live, Judith Leary-Joyce, chief executive of Great Companies Consulting, told delegates ...
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Responsibletravel.com launches ethical travel vouchers
Ethical online travel company responsibletravel.com has launched a corporate voucher scheme to enable employers to offer staff discounts on ethical holidays.The bespoke travel vouchers, which start from £50, are designed to suit a range of employee benefit schemes, long service incentives, performance based rewards. Employers can brand e-vouchers for staff ...
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Analysis
Special report: total reward
EXECUTIVE SUMMARYTotal reward plays an important part in employee engagement, which in turn can make a big difference to productivity. It is about all the ways in which people are rewarded when they come to work: pay, benefits and the other non-financial rewards put together to make a coherent ...
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The role of reward during a recession
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Benefits are an obvious target for a cost review, with many employers still not maximising the savings on benefits. It is better to be innovative about adjusting existing policies than removing benefits that are contractual. Most employee contracts are structured with enough flexibility to enable companies to tweak ...
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Linking incentive schemes with business strategy
Linking incentive schemes with business strategy can prove highly effective in boosting employee motivation levels, says Sarah ColesIn the early 1990s, US-based Continental Airlines had a real image problem: years of cost-cutting had left employees often demotivated, and flights were frequently late or cancelled. The company decided that it needed ...
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Interview with Adrian Furnham, professor in psychology at the University of London
Adrian Furnham, a professor in psychology, believes that an effective motivation strategy should have clear targets, offer valued incentives and be linked to performance, says Amanda WilkinsonThrowing money at a problem does not always help to solve the underlying issue. When it comes to motivating employees, that is certainly the ...
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Yell launches structured long-service programme
Yell has introduced a structured long-service awards programme that uses experience days and gifts to reward staff, in a consistant manner, for their loyalty to the company.Employees will be entitled to receive gifts and experiences at the end of each five-year period they have worked for the company, up to ...
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Career development for benefits professionals
Part of the benefits industry's appeal is its diverse and challenging nature, spanning topics from payroll and pensions, to motivation schemes. It is perhaps no surprise, therefore, that newcomers to this profession and even those who have worked in reward for years want to continue learning in order to improve ...
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Restructuring bonus arrangements
Once seen as an incentive primarily for sales staff, bonuses are now given much more widely to reward everything from attendance and service to performance and company profitability.Duncan Brown, director of HR services at PricewaterhouseCoopers, says: “About 90% of organisations have some form of bonus scheme. Employers like the concept ...
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Maintain morale in a downturn
As many employers look to make cost savings, it is still important to reward valued staff as their morale is vital to businesses' long-term prospects, says Nicola SullivanDuring periods of economic instability many employers will be keeping a close eye on benefits expenditure, looking for ways they can control or ...
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Chinese employers give staff tickets to the Olympic Games
Chinese employers are motivating their employees by giving them tickets to the Olympic Games.Staff are offered tickets in order to act as 'volunteer' fans and fill empty seats at the competition. Every employee is given training on how to act while watching the sporting events, for example, applauding for both ...
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Coast & Country launches voluntary benefits to motivate staff
Coast & Country has launched a voluntary benefits scheme that it will use to provide non-cash incentives to staff.The housing association's scheme offers its employees discounts with various retail, leisure and travel suppliers, and on experience days.Staff who carry out a part of their job to an exceptional standard will ...
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Sainsbury's launches gift cards
Sainsbury's has launched a gift card with cash values of between £1 and £2,000 that employers can use to reward and motivate staff. The gift card gives access to 30,000 products across Sainsbury's stores, coffee shops and petrol stations. Employers can top up the cards with cash by contacting Sainsbury's ...
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Smiths Group considers new executive incentive plan
The Smith Group is considering freezing the salaries of senior staff and offering them shares in the company for successfully overcoming challenges.Under the engineering firm's new remuneration scheme, proposed by chief executive Philip Bowman, executive directors would not receive pay rises for a period of two years and would no ...
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Bupa gives staff time to volunteer
Bupa is to give employees time during working hours to volunteer at charities close to its main call centres in Staines and Manchester.Employees will be able to choose from more than 100 projects including refurbishing a respite centre, repairing broken fences and gardens at a school and revamping a Mencap ...
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Non-monetary rewards make workers more likely to stay
Employers that offer their employees non-monetary rewards should achieve higher rates of retention than those that do not.A survey of 1,000 employees by GfK NOP found that a higher percentage of staff planning to quit their jobs within the year work for line managers who do not provide non-monetary rewards ...