News – Page 61

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    Xactly launches sales incentive compensation product

    2013-05-16T10:20:00Z

    Xactly Corporation has launched a sales incentive compensation product that enables managers to link the organisation’s goals to employee behaviour to engage and motivate staff.Xactly Objectives enables employers to set measurable, aligned business objectives for each employee, provide employees with real-time visibility of their performance, calculate achievement of those metrics, ...

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    Good work-life balance a driver for staff retention

    2013-05-08T11:26:00Z

    Employee respondents in the UK believe their employers fail to support them in striking a balance between work and their personal life, according to research by global management consultancy Hay Group. The research, which was compiled using data from Hay Group’s global employee opinion database comprising more than 600,000 UK ...

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    British Gas and Asda shortlisted for motivation

    2013-05-07T11:04:00Z

    British Gas, McDonald’s Restaurants and Whitbread are among the employers that have been shortlisted for the award ‘Most motivational benefits’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2013.For this category, the judges looked for a successful motivation strategy that uses incentives or reward to help drive employee performance, engagement or retention.The full ...

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    Milton Keynes managers are most rewarding in UK

    2013-05-07T10:48:00Z

    Managers in Milton Keynes are themost rewarding in the UK, according to research by Jurys Inn Hotels and CrossCountry trains.The hotel group’s survey of 2,500 office workers found that managers in Milton Keynes are most likely to reward their team’s successes, with 97% of bosses choosing to reward their teams ...

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    Debbie Lovewell: Engaging the generations

    2013-04-29T06:10:00Z

    Sitting on the cusp of generation X and the millennial generation, I can appreciate both sides of the findings from research published by PricewaterhouseCoopers in conjunction with the London Business School and the University of Southern California last month.It found that millennials, born between 1980 and 1995, put more value ...

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    I'm a journalist...Get me out of here!

    2013-04-26T05:30:00Z

    Something for the weekend… What do you think is the worst job of 2013? Kitchen porter? No, surely something more dangerous. What about working as a deep sea fisherman, like those featured on television’s the Deadliest Catch? Well, according to a recent survey, the answer is a little more surprising. ...

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    Tusker staff aim to raise £20,000 for charity

    2013-04-18T10:53:00Z

    Tusker employees are taking part in a challenge to raise £20,000 for charity.A team of 20 employees, led by chief executive David Hosking (pictured), will tackle the Tough Mudder adventure challenge, a 12-mile obstacle course designed to test participants on strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie.The 20 employees will face ...

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    Employers offer skills-based volunteering options to staff

    2013-04-16T11:19:00Z

    Employers have moved from primarily offering team and physical volunteering programmes to staff to providing access to skills-based volunteering opportunities, according to a report by Community Service Volunteers (CSV).Employee volunteering – who is benefiting now?, interviewed 40 organisations to explore the relationship between employers, employees and community groups engaged in ...

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    Is this the best office in the world?

    2013-04-05T05:00:00Z

    Something for the weekend …A ‘helter-skelter’ slide, a grass-covered amphitheater, a yoga area, a pool table, a putting green, a giant swing and a cinema …Is this the best office in the world?Designers Space and Solutions have transformed a former pub in Southampton into office space for technology organisation Peer ...

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    Employees feel demotivated in the workplace

    2013-04-04T09:15:00Z

    More than half (53%) of UK business leaders are generating demotivating working environments, according to research by Hay Group.The research, which analysed the consultancy’s own data covering around 14,000 leaders in almost 400 UK organisations, found that this figure has fallen by 12% since similar research was published in 2005.It ...

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    Barclays Bank among employers awarded for payroll giving

    2013-03-18T12:15:00Z

    Barclays Bank, Capital One and Hostelbookers.com are among the winners of workplace-giving organisation Pennies from Heaven’s annual awards.The awards celebrate employers that have demonstrated commendable commitment and generosity to charities through their payroll-giving schemes.Gold medals are awarded to employers which have more than 20% of staff participating in the scheme, ...

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    Astellas employees donate 9,000 volunteering hours

    2013-03-15T12:25:00Z

    Employees at Astellas Pharma Europe, the European Headquarters of Tokyo-based Astellas Pharma, have donated more than 9,000 employee volunteering hours, equivalent to 390 working days, to their local communities.The organisation enables employees to volunteer as part of its annual Changing Tomorrow Day programme, which has been running for three years. ...

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    Vinci UK offers mentor scheme to staff

    2013-03-11T12:17:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Vinci UK has offered employees the opportunity to mentor members of the armed forces who are resettling into civilian life.The opportunity is through its partnership with charity Help for Heroes, part of the construction company’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy, which also includes partnerships with three other charities: The ...

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    Robert Half staff to raise money for charity

    2013-02-21T11:30:00Z

    Robert Half is arranging a series of initiatives for its staff to help raise money for the British Heart Foundation after selecting the organisation as its charity of the year for 2013/14.The fundraising initiatives will include five-a-side football, quiz nights, fancy dress and client hospitality events. Employee interest groups have ...

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    Sodexo extends gift voucher offering

    2013-02-21T11:00:00Z

    Sodexo Motivation Solutions (SMS) has added Boux Avenue, Oasis and Restaurant Choice to its multi-store gift voucher offering.SMS’ SayShopping Pass can now be spent in more than 12,000 shops across the UK, as well as on entertainment, sport and holidays.The vouchers can be used by employers to reward, incentive and ...

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    LinkedIn gives all employees an iPad mini

    2013-02-15T12:32:00Z

    LinkedIn has awarded each of its 3,500 employees an iPad mini as a reward for beating quarterly revenue targets by more than $25 million.The iPads were handed out at the organisation’s bi-weekly, all-employee meeting.A LinkedIn spokesperson said: “We wanted to acknowledge the hard work and accomplishments of all of our ...

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    The White Company launches corporate reward division

    2013-02-14T11:42:00Z

    The White Company has launched a corporate reward division called The White Company for Business, which enables employers to incentivise and recognise employees.Gift vouchers are available in £5, £10 and £50 denominations, which can be spent online, in-store and via phone. The vouchers can also be remotely activated.The White Company ...

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    Visa Europe trains staff to volunteer

    2013-02-07T12:52:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Visa Europe is to provide training to employees this month, before they embark on UK-wide volunteering assignments.The credit card company’s volunteering programme, which has been in place for several years, enables staff to develop skills by working directly with local communities.Through the Arc Building Better Business programme, which is ...

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    Cary Cooper: Do team incentives really work?

    2013-01-28T08:49:00Z

    This prolonged recession means staff are focusing more and more on survival. This type of scenario often leads to people looking after their own career, whether that means protecting their own job or promotion prospects.It is difficult, in this context, for managers to initiate change, which is vital when times ...

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    Stephen Bevan: Do team incentives really work?

    2013-01-28T08:47:00Z

    You might imagine this would be supported by team-based pay or incentive systems, but these are not as common as you might think. Why is this?For a start, there is no point trying to incentivise a team unless it really is a team. Does it form a natural grouping in ...