All articles by System Administrator – Page 21
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective pensions strategy
WinnerNutricia The Nutricia Pension and Benefits Scheme (entered by Secondsight)In this closely-fought category, the judges were impressed by Nutricia’s approach to moving from a self-administered money purchase pension plan to a group personal pension.They liked the high level of staff involvement throughout the change and the baby food manufacturer’s commitment ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective total reward strategy
WinnerZurich Financial Services Zurich Total Reward Statementand Flexible Benefits Scheme 2009 (entered by Buck Consultants)This programme was designed to engage staff with their reward and to create a link between personal and business performance. It aimed to explore the reciprocal relationship between employer and employee.A key part of this was ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective sickness absence management strategy
WinnerCrawley Borough Council Absence Management & Employee Wellbeing PolicyWith a workforce of 800, this council has introduced a range of new ideas, as well as using good-practice, manager-led return-to-work policies and absence monitoring schemes. The process is strict, with set targets for short-term absences and a separate procedure for long-term ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Benefits team of the year
WinnerFirstGroup Invigorating the Communication of Our Total Rewards ProgrammeUnder the careful direction of group reward and pensions director John Chilman, this team has a thorough knowledge of the organisation they work for. Each member has to take part in a two-year programme of visits to every UK bus depot so ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective international employee benefits strategy
WinnerRBS Group RBSelect (entered by Thomsons Online Benefits)The judges felt RBS’s international benefits strategy is “well ahead of the rest of the market”. The banking group set itself a target of being the first financial services organisation to implement a flexible total reward strategy globally, and to ensure it was ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective benefits strategy for organisations with 1,000 or fewer employees
WinnerGeneral Mills UK General Mills UK Employee Wellbeing StrategyThis organisation, which produces brands such as Haagen- Dazs, Old El Paso, Green Giant and Betty Crocker, has carefully aligned its business strategy of “Nourishing lives” and “Bringing food to life” to its benefits strategy, which is “Bringing employee wellbeing to life”. ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy (sponsored by Westfield Health)
WinnerInforma InformMyBenefits – Health and Wealth ProgrammeInforma reinvigorates its benefits each year. In 2008, the programme was transformed into one focusing on health and wealth. New benefits included health screening for partners and a bike-to-work scheme, to add to existing wellbeing perks such as private medical insurance, extra days’ holiday ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective benefits strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees (Sponsored by Projectlink Motivation)
WinnerMalmaison & Hotel du Vin Hotels Mal HdV Benefits(entered by Davidson Asset Management)This hotel chain faced several employee challenges, which it solved through a carefully thought-out long-term strategy.First, there was the merging of two very different hotel chains without diluting the values and brand of each; second, staff turnover in ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Grand Prix (Sponsored by Watson Wyatt Worldwide)
WinnerLadbrokes Football FrenzyLadbrokes was primarily voted winner of the Grand Prix award because of the way its Football Frenzy motivation scheme fitted with the bookmaker’s culture and helped to engage staff with a key sporting area for the business. Ladbrokes also proved it has more than one string to its ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective use of digital media to communicate benefits to staff
WinnerRok Group RokPay (entered by Thomsons Online Benefits)Most employers now use websites to promote benefits and a growing number are putting together DVDs as part of their internal communications. What made Rok’s entry stand out is that it deployed both forms of digital media well.A staff survey and meetings with ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Communications strategy of the year for organisations with 5,000 employees or more
WinnerTesco Tesco Benefits Communication StrategyPeople expect Tesco to communicate well, so this entry was given extra tough scrutiny – and the judges felt it deserved to be held up as an example of good practice. The retailer used simple, often cheap ideas effectively. Communication channels were wide-ranging and sometimes felt ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009 winners and finalists
Welcome to the Employee Benefits Awards 2009.This is the only event in the UK dedicated to celebrating employers’ reward and benefits strategies. This year, more than ever, it is vital to acknowledge outstanding practices as employers aim to engage staff in tough times.So we would like to congratulate our worthy ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Communications strategy of the year for organisations with fewer than 5,000 employees
WinnerGrant Thornton UK Your Benefits, Your ChoiceThe judges felt that although this communication strategy was conventional (in a good way), it was absolutely right for this organisation and clearly delivered results.In 2007, Grant Thornton and RSM Robson Rhodes were involved in the largest merger in the financial sector for a ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Compensation and benefits professional of the year
WinnerMichael Rose director of total reward, AonThe judges felt Michael Rose has made a major contribution to compensation and benefits. Michael’s wide experience throughout his career has enabled him to devise a number of innovative reward ideas, both in the UK and internationally.He was one of the first to make ...
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Aviva uses employee benefits to maximise impact of rebrand
My Aviva Reward is an all-employee reward engagement programme at the heart of one of the largest financial services rebrands in the last 10 years. To implement the programme at the UK’s largest insurance group, Aviva, its UK Reward team worked with Caburn Hope to develop the new reward brand.Project ...
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Computershare clients sweep top honours at Global Equity Organisation Awards
This article is supplied by our channel sponsor, ComputershareComputershare (ASX:CPU) is delighted to announce that two of its clients were awarded prestigious accolades at the 2009 Global Equity Organisation Awards in Paris on Thursday 11th June.Royal Dutch Shell (EURONEXT:RDSA) won the award for ‘Best Plan Effectiveness’, reflecting its achievements in ...
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Employee Benefits Summit 2009 – Speaker slides
Below are the slides from some of the speakers at the Employee Benefits Summit 2009Communicating Pension and Savings Benefits to EmployeesGraham Vidler, Deputy Chief Executive, Personal Accounts Delivery AuthorityDownloadThe Health of the UK’s Working Age Population in a Recession – Latest Government InitiativesWill Cavendish, Director – Cross Government Obesity Programme, ...
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Healthcare research 2010: Key findings
Our survey, which was carried out in April 2009, received 834 responses from Employee Benefits readers and users of www.employeebenefits.co.ukKey findings54% of respondents will be under more pressure to reduce costs and 44% will have to review providers to get a better deal because of the recession.†Improving staff health and ...
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Employee Benefits/Simplyhealth Healthcare Research 2009
Research: who are the respondents; key findingsResearch: attitudes to health and wellbeingResearch: which healthcare benefits are on offerResearch: impact of health and wellbeing benefits on sickness absenceResearch: strategies to deal with employee stressResearch: healthcare costs and calculating return on investmentResearch: how legislation is affecting workplace health and wellbeingSponsor's comment: Health ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2009: Most effective use of financial education in the workplace (Sponsored by JPMorgan INVEST)
WinnerSchlumberger (entered by Clarity)Judges praised the oilfield service provider’s approach to the difficult task of providing financial education to a workforce of 84,000 spread across more than 80 countries. Its education programme targets two main groups – expatriate employees and international commuters who live in their home country but travel ...