Building Engagement & Performance

Engaging employees is the key in retaining top performing staff and encouraging maximum productivity throughout the remainder of 2009 and 2010, according to Capital Incentive’s & Motivation’s newly launched research paper ‘Building Engagement & Performance’.

“The business climate has changed dramatically. In weather terms it is no longer sunny with a gentle following breeze. It is now cold and wet with gale force winds. To succeed in this more difficult environment, organisations need their people to be more committed and determined as well as more adaptable and united,” said Derrick Hardman, Managing Director, Capital Incentives & Motivation.

Designed to advise directors, managers and HR teams about how to maximise the success of incentive and motivation programmes, the white paper reveals some facts about employee engagement levels in the UK.

“Research commissioned by Accor Services, our parent company, shows that employee engagement is significantly low and that the proportion of staff feeling engaged has dropped by half since 2005,” said Hardman.

“No matter what the economic climate, organisations need to ensure they’re making the most of their most valuable resource – their people.”

The 20-page paper, Building Engagement & Performance highlights why motivation programmes succeed or fail; where they work well; how to motivate all employees; long-term versus short-term schemes and managing budgets; how to choose what incentive rewards to offer; the options available; the power of the internet to motivate; and the future of rewards and incentives.

It includes vital information about the power of motivation and the beneficial effects an engaged workforce can have on an organisation’s bottom line.

“Absenteeism alone costs the UK millions of pounds each year. If employers can implement a programme that will help to reduce that alone, their companies and the economy will prosper. If we then consider the other factors that contribute to detrimental effects such as high staff turnover, losing top performers, under-performers and workers who cause damage to your brand, the need to have a strategy to combat low morale is much clearer,” said Hardman.

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