Employee Motivation and Productivity
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What do employee ratings say about your business culture?
Glassdoor, one of the world’s largest recruitment sites, has just announced the winners of its annual Employees’ Choice Awards honouring the 50 best places to work in the UK in…
Maintain a positive culture while your business grows
Many companies have an impressive reputation as being a great place to work, but culture, values and the personal touch can easily become lost as a business forges ahead with…
Google walkout – inevitable and avoidable
Last week Staff at Google offices around the world staged an unprecedented series of walkouts in protest at the company’s treatment of women. In this blog we explore why you should be…
5 ways to motivate employees without free beer
Okay, so there are plenty of other company perks around but ‘free beer’ sums up a general trend for employers at the moment. Who are now more aware of the…
6 ways to motivate employees with the January blues
For many companies 2017 was the Year Of The Pool Table or climbing wall, yoga mat, free fruit basket, [enter chosen gimmick here]. It will be a while before we…
Is World Gratitude Day a useful contribution to staff recognition?
Today is World Gratitude Day Hooray. A lot of empty gestures will be made today, says my inner cynic, mostly in companies that want employees to think they really care. This is…
Why is it so hard to keep good teachers?
The kids are not alright If you come from a privileged background your life chances are still greater – the gap between rich and poor remains ‘persistently high’. The Commission…
Which is best for motivating a team – carrots or sticks?
We spend a lot of time debating the problems of motivating a team – when to use carrots or sticks, or what level of bonus might be appropriate for a…
Staff sickness cancels 500 trains
It has been a bad week for anyone who has to commute into London by Southern Railway. The trains are packed enough as it is, with many season ticket holders…
Motivation theory and what does it mean to thrive?
As you can imagine, that’s an important question to us. And in a field full of similarly vague concepts (happiness, satisfaction, engagement, motivation and so on) it seems an important…
CIPD Annual Conference – future-focussed HR building motivation in the workplace
The CIPD annual conference next week has as its tag-line “Future-focussed HR at its best”. It’s looking like it will be a great event. One talk particularly caught my eye on…
How to improve employee engagement, not lose your shirt
France is famous for direct action, but this was something else We’re used to piles of burning tyres at the Eurotunnel, lakes of milk in the Champs-Elysées, etc., but the…