Category: Employee engagement
What is employee engagement and why does it matter?
Employee engagement | Engagement
According to the CIPD appears to be no common understanding of employee engagement. Some definitions focus on employee behaviour or employee attitudes, some on employee feelings, some on conditions of work, and what the organisation does for them.
Why employee engagement can ease the pressure on pay and reduce skills shortages
Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement
We do naturally see ebbs and flows in pay movement, and what feels heightened now, will in time be part of a wave.
The Gig Economy and how to effectively engage the contingent workers in your workforce
Employee engagement | Engagement | Flexible working
Regardless of whether a contingent worker is working five or 35 hours, should feel as included, recognised and ultimately engaged as much as a permanent employee. Alastair Cole provides his top tips for keeping your flexible workforce engaged.
Six tips to test the transparency of your reward and benefits communication strategy
Employee engagement | Communications | Reward Strategy | Transparency
Perceptions of unfairness in reward, regardless of whether there is any truth behind the perception, can be extremely damaging to the culture and productivity of a business, so how can we test the transparency of our communication? Cathryn Edmondson offers six ways you can try.
How to make your communication strategy inclusive
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Communications | Employee Experience
Achieving a truly inclusive internal comms strategy takes energy and a commitment to review and evolve. Cathryn Edmondson discusses some of the steps an organisation can take in pursuit of an inclusive internal comms strategy.
How communicating with and engaging employees will change in the next five years
Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement | Communications | HR Technology | Employee Experience | Diversity
As baby boomers bow out while Gen Z become a bigger proportion of the workforce, it’s important to rethink your organisation’s engagement strategy. With only 1 in 3 employees on average engaged globally, there has never been more reason to refresh existing tactics.
It's not always about the money: how to motivate your staff with non-cash rewards
Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Recognition | Reward | Employee Experience
While financial motivation can certainly attract key talent to your organisation, it will not always keep it. Emer Bucukoglu suggests ways in which you can use non-monetary rewards to attract, motivate and retain staff, and improve your company's bottom line along the way.
Keeping employee recognition at the forefront in an ever-changing world
Employee engagement | Recognition | Employee Experience
There is much research out there that demonstrates the clear link between recognition and engagement, and, ultimately, increased productivity and profit levels. With this in mind, Alastair's has pulled together his top tips for recognition during these uncertain times.
Shaping your employee deal with benefits built for the future
Benefits audit | Benefits intelligence | Employee engagement | Culture | Flexible Benefits | Employee Experience
The impact of Covid-19 and a move to home working has created many opportunities for organisations to reshape their employee deal into one that embraces technology, facilitates increased levels of personalisation, has a ‘social purpose’, extends to the contingent workforce and is more holistic, covering financial, mental, physical and social elements of wellbeing.
The importance of culture when recruiting
Employee engagement | Culture | Employee Experience | Recruitment
An effective company culture permeates the entire employee lifecycle from the recruitment process through to the time an employee leaves the business and can act as a strong stable core within an organisation. Cathryn Edmondson offers some advice on how to ensure your company culture remains intact through periods of growth and recruitment.
Authenticity, and why your internal brand is just as important as your external brand
Pay & Reward | Employee engagement | Employee communications | Engagement | HR Technology | Productivity | Employee Experience
If you aren’t communicating your employee deal effectively, not only are you not getting best return on investment for your spend, but you aren’t leveraging the often many great benefits that make up your total reward deal to best advantage when it comes to attracting, motivating and retaining your staff.
The impact of bonus and variable pay on morale and engagement
Bonus | Motivation | Employee engagement | Engagement | Covid-19
As we are now seeing lockdown lifting, albeit gradually, many workplaces are getting back to some kind of normality, are bonus expectations set to come back? Mark Macoun looks at how the pandemic has influenced bonus payments, and suggests ways you can boost morale and engagement when budgets are tight.