All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 144
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Council offers staff up to £5K for ideas
Aberdeen City Council is offering staff incentives of up to £5,000 as part of a new suggestion scheme aimed at trimming costs and cutting red tape. Staff at the local authority get cash payouts for proposals - ranging from £25 for a suggestion which is considered innovative but is not ...
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One becomes three as voucher provider rebrands
High Street Gift Voucher has rebranded its reward scheme to include new products in travel and leisure. The existing High Street Gift Voucher becomes Love2shop, while the company has added Love2travel and Love2play to its voucher scheme. The company itself also has a new name, Love2reward.For more information phone 0845 ...
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Case Studies
National Express shares results of workforce survey with staff
Case Study: National Express groupWhen National Express Group carried out its first workforce survey in 2003, it shared all the results with staff, warts and all. And with 59% of employees disagreeing with the statement, 'I experience benefits being part of the group', the results made uneasy reading. Nicola Marsden, ...
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Unilever UK Home and Personal Care clean up at poll
Unilever UK Home and Personal Care gave its factory workers time off work to fill out its staff survey. And as 100% of its 630 Leeds-based staff took part, the consumer goods firm donated £4,000 to charity. The firm, which owns the brands Dove, Lynx and Persil, promised that if ...
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Cheap and cheerful benefits
Jenny Keefe questions the existence of free benefits and asks if the countermeasure to rallying the troops during a bleak economic situation is a dose of creative thinking.If you read nothing else read this...Flexible working is a popular option for thrifty employers; it is inexpensive to install, but valued highly ...
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Benefits envy
Ill-feeling can set in when benefits are distributed unfairly. Childcare, performance, long service, management bonuses and reward, and expatriate packages are all potential flash points for professional envy, says Jenny KeefeCase Studies - Toyota, Punch TavernsArticle in fullThere is an AA car loan advert doing the rounds at the moment ...
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Beauty firm Neal's Yard Remedies see workers move west
Neal's Yard Remedies has attracted 50% of its staff from London to Dorset by offering three months' paid leave as an incentive. The organic beauty firm is relocating its head office and factory and has offered the leave to all staff that move to the new location and stay for ...
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Falkirk Council adds PC deal
Falkirk Council is introducing a home computing scheme in a bid to modernise public sector perks. The local authority predicts that 1,600 of its 7,000 staff will take part in the offering. HR adviser Lisa Harvey said: "There's [the perception] that the public sector might be a wee bit old ...
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Royal Mail sick leave down 11 per cent
Royal Mail has seen a reduction in its sickness absence levels despite receiving significant criticism for its stick and carrot approach to the problem. The organisation, which introduced a prize draw in August 2004 to help its 190,000 staff reduce the number of sick days taken, has since seen sickness ...
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Feature – Team social events
If you read nothing else, read this ... Avoid events that are too physical or exclusive - and make sure that everyone joins in, including managers.Mix teams by function, sex or age so that people do not stick with their own group.Market the event internally to ensure staff participate and ...
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Staff rev up payroll giving
Around a quarter of employees at Harley-Davidson have signed up to its recently launched payroll giving scheme. The motorcycle manufacturer, which has around 150 employees in the UK, set up the charity donating process after it was given a grant by the government. Employers with fewer than 500 staff are ...
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Trust fund plan gets Disney link
Barclays is offering staff the chance to win tickets to advance screenings of Disney's new movie Pooh's Heffalump. All employees are eligible to apply for one of 900 pairs of tickets to the screenings, which will be held in nine cinemas across the UK on 13 March. The competition is ...
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Grateful boss surprises staff with Caribbean Holiday
The incentiveEmployees at hotel toiletry supplier Pacific Direct were rewarded with an all-expenses paid holiday to Barbados when the firm's profits exceeded a projected £1 million target. The trip, which took place in January and cost £50,000, included accommodation in a five-star hotel, food and drink, spending money and activities ...
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Analysis
Motivating your mid-performers
In summaryOrganisations have a tendency to focus most of their energy on the highest and lowest performers, often neglecting the majority who fall in-between. By not focussing enough energy on these mid-performers, they may easily slip down into your lower performance category and ultimately leave the company. Implementing reward and ...
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Penguin struts with new HR prize
Penguin has been voted NSPCC Family Friendly Employer of the Year at the Employer of the Year Awards organised by charity Working Families. The publishing company was awarded the title for helping staff to juggle work and family responsibilities. Its family friendly policies include 15 days compassionate leave when employees' ...
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Hull firm to flex to help find recruits
Smith & Nephew is piloting a flexible benefits scheme at its Hull division in a bid to lure more new recruits to the beleaguered city.The medical supplies firm, best known for manufacturing plasters, will trial the scheme on 600 management staff from January.Terry Dunn, remuneration and pension manager at the ...
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Publisher offers staff book sale
Penguin offered staff a Christmas book sale after distribution problems forced it to withhold its traditional 75% discount on Penguin titles. The publisher, which moved to a new warehouse and automated distribution system earlier this year, has experienced delays in book deliveries after suffering difficulties with software that matches orders ...
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Benefits and employee retention
Managing performance is vital if you've created great pensions and perks to stop your workforce bolting, says Peter WhiteCase study: The Football Association, Yahoo!Article in fullWhy are you introducing that splendid new benefits scheme?" asks the man with the quest for knowledge. "To aid recruitment and retention," replies the benefits ...
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BBC purchases staff homes
The BBC is to purchase the houses of all staff whose roles will be relocated to Manchester in the next five years.The Guaranteed House Purchase Scheme, which will be run by a specialist relocation company, will buy employees' houses in London, which will allow staff to buy a new house ...
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Nomura uses V&A theme among staff
Nomura Group offered all of its UK employees free entry to the V&A museum during the end of last year. The international investment bank provided free tickets for staff and their families to attend the autumn exhibition 'Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe 1500-1800'. Nomura also held themed competitions ...