HRZone are the exclusive media partner to the EE Awards
You've got one day to get your entries in for the Employee Engagement Awards as the deadline is TOMORROW – get your entry in now and make history in the first ever Employee Engagement Awards! We’ve got some great news – we are the exclusive media partner to the Employee Engagement Awards, newly launched for this year. […]
Interview: Cathy Brown, Executive Director, Engage for Success
Cathy is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. Who is Cathy Brown? Cathy Brown is Executive Director at government taskforce Engage for Success. She originally joined Engage for Success as a secondee, then as a volunteer, before returning to become Executive Director. She also works as […]
Interview: Crispin Manners, Chairman, Onva Consulting
Crispin is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. 1) What does employee engagement mean to you? I believe that many companies fail to recognise that the solutions to many of their problems, and the sources of innovation that could be transformational, can come from their employees. […]
Interview: Astrid Erlandsson, employee engagement expert, Effectory International
Earlier this year you moved to Amsterdam to join Effectory International from Stockholm, where you were working for TNS-Sifo. Can you tell us what attracted you to your new role? It was a great opportunity for me to develop professionally, and I was immediately drawn to the culture of the organisation. Effectory International is an […]
Interview: Laura Temple, Head of Leadership Engagement, SABMiller
Laura is a judge at the inaugural Employee Engagement Awards which will recognise the very best in engagement programmes publicly. Who is Laura Temple? Laura Temple heads up leadership engagement at the world’s second largest brewer SABMiller, famous for beers such as Peroni, Grolsh and Pilsner Urquell. Laura is a strategic communication and engagement specialist and […]
How HR can prolong that post-holiday feeling
Picture the scene – staff are returning to the office at the end of the summer holiday season. They’re feeling relaxed, recharged and revitalised. The potential for greater productivity and creativity should be at its highest but, in most cases, it will remain largely untapped as normality quickly kicks in with energy and motivation sapped […]
Interview: Raj Kaur-Hooper, HR Engagement Manager, Twinings
Rajdeep spoke on organisational values and how to get the most out of them on our HRZone webinar, ‘Organisational Values: are they worth the bother?” Click the link to watch her full presentation and the Q&A discussion that followed. She has worked in talent/development/HR engagement roles for 10 years in a variety of industries including retail […]
Talk to your talent today about their tomorrow
Growing economies create more job opportunities. Your talent will be feeling more confident, and more focused on their development than ever, so if you’re not actively engaging with them about the ways they can develop their career with you, then someone else soon will. This is particularly true when it comes to your Generation Y […]
Why HR is its own worst enemy when it comes to employee engagement
In recent years, the use of the written term ‘employee engagement’ has overtaken phrases such as ‘staff incentives’ and ‘employee motivation’1 for the first time since 1920, demonstrating an emerging new ‘engagement’ model when motivating staff, particularly those who work for large, global organisations. Employee engagement is a compelling proposition and there have been dozens […]
Jobs increase, pay stagnates: Solving the employee engagement challenge
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou[1] A recent report in the Guardian revealed that "unemployment fell to a five-year low in April but Britain's workers were squeezed by a dramatic slowdown in pay growth, according […]
Employee engagement lessons from some of the UK’s most sustainable businesses
Around a quarter of UK SMEs are prioritising energy saving management in 2014 after research has shown that, on average, a typical business wastes around 20% of the energy it uses. Whilst government initiatives, such as the Green Deal, have been put in place to ensure that both businesses and home owners UK-wide do more […]
Employee engagement in the recession – weathering the storm
Nita Clarke OBE Co-Chair of the Engage for Success Taskforce. The last few years have been tough for many employees. Many have experienced difficult workplace change as their organisations were rocked by the recession. Most have suffered under years of pay restraint which is only now starting to ease. Yet remarkably despite these challenges, as […]
Sustaining engagement: why health and wellbeing are vital
While I firmly believe in and support the important messages coming out of the Engage for Success movement about the value, benefit and significance of employee engagement, I would like to use this blog to sound a note of caution: ever increasing levels of employee engagement may not be an altogether good thing. If engagement […]
New report: Best Places to Work 2014
Every year Great Place to Work put out a report profiling the organisations that have ranked highest in their employee engagement programme and display long-term commitment to creating cultures where employees thrive. The Great Workplaces Special Report, just released today, profiles 2014's 100 Best Workplaces and shares insights into how trust and engagement drive their […]
How often should you conduct an employee survey?
This article is based on data and conclusions from our report, The State of Employee Engagement 2014. You can download the report here and learn what best-performing companies are doing when it comes to engagement, and how you can ramp up your employee engagement efforts. How often should you conduct an employee survey? To help […]
Why don’t employee engagement surveys work?
‘The fundamental element required for an organisation to thrive and grow is having employees who are committed, motivated and engaged’. That was the conclusion of the UK government’s 2009 review on employee engagement[1]. This and other research studies – such as those by Gallup[2] and the Corporate Leadership Council[3] – champion the transformational possibilities of engagement and […]
Employee development through CSR programmes
Employees are increasingly demanding that their workplaces not only provide opportunities for them to develop within the business, but outside of it too. With CSR remaining high on the agenda and workers craving the challenges and learning that come via volunteering and community-based initiatives, organisations must master the world of ‘intelligent volunteering’ that not only […]
NHS and employee engagement – what works?
Employee engagement is increasingly being seen as a priority by employers. Nowhere more so than in the NHS. Research has shown that NHS Trusts which effectively engage their employees have higher levels of staff wellbeing and more satisfied patients; they have better clinical outcomes and they are more efficient. It’s increasingly clear that engagement is […]
Competent individuals – at risk from social undermining?
Complexity is everywhere in the business world today. Businesses struggle with issues such as global interconnectedness, sustainability, hyper-competition and pervasive organisational change. And naturally, we all believe that the more skilled and competent our workforce, the more able we are to manage these issues successfully. We never focus on competence As HR professionals and managers, […]
Are line managers doing performance management or forms management?
How’s this for a performance management scenario: It’s mid-February and a manager in your organisation bursts into an employee’s office. “HR’s getting really annoyed. I was supposed to submit everyone’s performance plan no later than the end of January. Here’s your plan from last year. The work hasn’t really changed and you’re doing a great […]
