With a mix of planned and unexpected recognition, you can maintain participation and your recipients will maintain interest.
Encouraging companies to better engage with their employees leads directly to a positive ROI for those companies and Uncle Sam, as well.
How do you get people to become committed to safety, to do the right thing in the moment of choice? Is it by increasing the number of safety cops?
Often the best thing a leader can do is stop making it difficult for employees to be involved.
Researchers at the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health and at University College in London followed 2,123 middle-aged government workers in Britain for six years and found a link between working overtime and major depressive episodes.
One of the categories is social responsibility, asking how the gift card program assisted the IGCC member or its client in achieving their environmental, philanthropic, and corporate citizen goals.
Researchers based their findings on data from surveys of more than 600 employees and company records from Best Buy before and after the implementation of a “Results Only Work Environment” (ROWE) workplace initiative.
Accidents are simply another kind of defect -- a deviation from the standard of perfection. And, like quality, these defects must be detected and eliminated at the moment they first appear.
“Respondents indicated they are less optimistic than they were in the spring about their ability to plan and implement incentive travel programs and consider the economy as having a relatively negative impact on their ability to execute the programs they would like,” said IRF President Melissa Van Dyke.
A telephone survey of 1,020 adults conducted earlier this fall found that even though 67 percent of Americans didn’t think the economic downturn would last this long, they still want to give to charities.
The paper describes the appeal and use of electronic gamification: a technology-based approach that uses elements of social game design for solving business problems, inspiring new product sales, and improving customer service.
This study provides new insights into how stress affects productivity, particularly in combination with exercise and other lifestyle factors.
You already have many of the tools in place to achieve lofty corporate safety goals; what is needed is the spark.
Historic Reading Railroad Terminal is the site of the National Safety Congress & Expo’s long-awaited return to Philadelphia.
The conflict between employers' love affair with effective safety incentive programs and OSHA’s concern that those same programs may encourage under-reporting has gone on virtually since the OSH Act became law in April 1971.
"When used properly, non-cash awards, like merchandise and travel, have indeed proven to be more effective and therefore more efficient than traditional forms of compensation when used properly in a total-rewards mix," said IRF President Melissa Van Dyke.
“Mobile voting carries the potential to increase voter participation, reduce election administration costs, and allow voters to interact with familiar technology," the authors wrote.
Behavioral science has proven countless times that both positive and punishing consequences affect our behavior.
The calendar is full of big meetings from early September to mid-December, including VPPPA, NSC, A+A, the IFMA World Workplace 2011, and NFPA's Fire & Life Safety Conference.
The paper examines existing research and case studies to assess the state of workplace wellness incentives and their supporting ROI data, and makes recommendations for determining what rewards are most effectively used in wellness programs.