Reward and recognition: Are you making the most of your recognition programme? How to make it work harder to boost engagement
Recognition | Reward Strategy | Reward
In the current climate a sound Recognition Strategy is a really good way to keep employees motivated and engaged. If companies cannot afford ad hoc pay increases – and many cannot – recognition can reward staff in a way that encourages positive behaviours and reflects the company’s culture. But how can you ensure that your Recognition scheme is achieving its potential?
Women in the workplace – the policies, procedures and perception shifts needed to unlock gender equality in the work place
Gender Pay | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting | Women in leadership | Thought Leadership
Six years have now passed since gender pay gap reporting was first made mandatory in the UK and nobody could deny that issues of gender distribution in business remain the same: in simple terms, there are more men at the top and more women at the bottom.
How organisational design can help mitigate staff shortages
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | Job evaluation
On 20 February, BBC Online published an article entitled How shrinking teams are pushing workers to the brink. It outlines how staff shortages are leading to workers having to perform multi-faceted roles, take on heavier workloads and complete tasks beyond their job remit.
Managing Pay Review – Five key areas for HR to address
When it comes to Pay Review, HR can often find themselves losing valuable time in complex manual processes and ultimately without the tools they need to make informed decisions. Here are five common areas of concern where Innecto's Advance tool can almost certainly help.
Recognition – Top 5 considerations for implementing a new scheme
In the current climate recognition is a really good way to keep employees motivated and engaged. If companies cannot afford ad hoc pay increases – and many cannot – a sound recognition strategy can reward staff in a way that encourages positive behaviours and reflects the company’s culture. Here are five key considerations when looking to implement a recognition scheme.
Pay in a Recession: How to grow in-built Resilience
Pay Fairness | Pay & Reward | Resilience
Whether the current economic climate is confirmed as a recession or not, there is no question that we are in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis. According to Resolution Foundation, a typical disposable income for a working-age household is on track to fall by 3% this financial year, and by 4% in the year to April 2024, worse than the last financial crisis. The figures vary but the key message is the same: employees are going to feel worse off in real terms.
Myth-busters 2023: Tackling common misconceptions in pay and reward
Bonus | Gender Pay Gap | Gender Pay Reporting | Flexible working | Salary survey | Recognition | Pension | Remote Working | Thought Leadership
We asked our consultants and analysts to raise some common misconceptions and explain where they think misunderstandings may lie.
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03 February 2023

Taking the Pain out of Pay Review
Pay Review time has arrived again and for many at the moment it feels like a continuous process: an uphill treadmill of pressure, budget crunching and scenario re-modelling.
Building Pay Resilience in a volatile market
On 17 January BBC online published an article entitled Cost of living: Five tips for asking for a pay rise. It is one of many articles currently being published on the topic, but the website and app are among the most-read in the UK and the article, which offers ‘five tips on how to negotiate for more money' will reach potentially millions of eyeballs.
The key technology changes to be aware of as we plan Reward Strategy for 2023
Evaluate | Job Evaluation Software | HR software | Reward technology | HR Technology | PayLab | Advance | Hapi
HR Tech is evolving to meet the ever-changing needs of modern business. Previously companies acquired an Enterprise solution like Oracle or PeopleSoft to ‘do everything’. Now HR Directors can pick and choose between a range of products on different platforms with an expectation that they can integrate and ‘talk to each other’. It sounds straightforward but the goalposts are constantly shifting so it is important to peel back the layers.
How companies can retain and attract the right talent in 2023
Employee engagement | Talent | Recruitment | Retention
The current economic climate looks set to prevail well into 2023 so, with high inflation, a squeeze on talent and market volatility, challenging times lie ahead. I can see companies benefiting from investing within, both in terms of nurturing home-grown talent and in fixing any culture and connectivity glitches many have experienced and accepted since the pandemic. Meanwhile, attracting the best talent is likely to hinge on nailing the all-important employee value proposition, while continuing to focus on the traits of equity and transparency so important to the younger generation.
How to use your reward strategy to support good performance
Performance Management | Reward Strategy | Performance | Reward
Every client we have is likely to want some kind of high performance culture, but where some fall down is by not making it clear enough what high performance means. For some it leans towards performance outcomes and specified KPI’s, for others around driving workers’ skill development and competency levels. It is very difficult to properly align your reward to support performance, whatever it is, without first knowing what this means to your organisation, and then getting real clarity around the purpose of each aspect of your reward suite.