The Business Case for Increasing Employee Engagement with Rewards and Recognition
TRICIA MIKOLAI
Managing Director - Oceania BI WORLDWIDE
FACT: On average 70% of your workforce is disengaged.
Research consistently shows that engaged employees outperform their disengaged colleagues; and organisations with high levels of engagement achieve greater financial results than their peers.
FACT: 90% of business leaders agree employee engagement impacts business success, but only 25% of them have a strategy to improve it.
Build a program that motivates long-term behaviours in employees that align with your strategic objectives.
Linking a Recognition Program to Your Strategic Goals
Achieve growth:
- Companies with low levels of engaged employees have a 32.7% decline in operating income.
- A 1% increase in employee engagement Predicts an incremental 0.6% growth in sales.
Keep leadership informed:
- Executive dashboards provide real-time results and activity from the top program level down to individual employees.
- Administrator analytics answer key program questions and identify areas for improvement, further investigation and celebration.
Streamline processes:
- Single-sign-on and integration with other third party enterprise systems simplify the employee Participation experience.
- Reduce administration time with one central communication, tracking, recognition and rewards fulfilment hub that can manage organisation-wide initiatives concurrently with local programs.
Maintain compliance:
- Track and monitor reward spend across all initiatives through one platform.
- Participant access is automatically controlled by their login credentials based on their department, job title or geographic location.
Reduce costs:
- Higher employee retention reduces overall recruitment, on-boarding and training costs.
- Engaged employees have higher well-being leading to fewer accidents. errors. absenteeism and use of personal leave.