In this article by Nupur Singh Mallick, HR Director (UK & Ireland), Tata Consultancy Services you can find out more about what they are doing internally to engage their employees. For any organisation, finding people with the right skills is never easy – and finding people with the right attitude is even harder. With competition […]
By Jane Sparrow, culture expert For many organisations, change is a constant. No sooner has one round of restructuring or change to focus around a new direction completed, it’s time for another change of direction or reshaping to occur. A new change process is identified and whilst efforts are made to make it ‘look different’ […]
Focus on Practicalities As you’ve probably seen Cathy Brown saying in the ‘Hello” video, Engage for Success is celebrating four years’ work with a big push from Passive to Active. Time to get it out there into the world and focus on practicalities. I have to declare an interest here, having spent years developing a […]
If you run a business, you’ll know that your employees’ health can affect your profit. But how much do colds and the flu actually cost your business, and is there anything you can do to reduce sickness absence? Every year UK business loses £31 billion due to sick leave. This works out at an average […]
Have you ever tried putting together a piece of IKEA furniture without the instructions? It’s a nightmare. Sure it’s doable, but it’s also complicated, frustrating and leaves you with a lot of anxiety any time a guest takes a seat in that chair. (Not to mention all of the ‘just-in-case’ Allen Keys you have to […]
If you’re looking for evidence of engagement best practise, talk to a CIPD People Management ‘best employee engagement initiative’ Award winner. Alcoa Power and Propulsion were the 2013 winners, and they’ve not only maintained great results, they’ve improved their engagement survey scores and business performance. As award sponsor and judge, we were keen to find […]
Employee Engagement is measured through an annual employee survey that gives our teams the opportunity to give their feedback on the company, their job and their manager. We carry out a pulse survey three times a year to temperature check the levels of engagement across the organisation. The engagement score is used as our people […]
Case Study – GE Healthcare, The Grove Centre, June 2014. The Life Sciences division of GE Healthcare is a $4 billion business, providing expertise and tools for a wide range of biotechnology and life sciences applications, including basic research of cells and proteins, drug discovery research, as well as tools to support large-scale manufacturing of […]
This case study was written by Ernst & Young LLP. The story it examines, of Westfield Insurance’s occupational change management saga, takes on nearly universal themes from the business world and is something that every insurance professional, especially those in leadership positions, needs to read. The effect that large-scale change could have on morale and […]
The wellbeing subgroup was launched in August 2013 to build on the paper “Why wellbeing matters: Sustaining Employee Engagement & Wellbeing”. Chaired by Wendy Cartwright, former HRD for the Olympic Delivery Authority, the group sought to build upon the great work already taking place and provide a “wellbeing, nailing the evidence” whitepaper. Please access the whitepaper […]
