Rewarding Employees Non-Financially

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Rewarding Employees Non-Financially

Non-financial rewards can be just as motivating, if not more so, than financial incentives.  And they almost always cost much less! If you want your employees to be happy and stay with the business long-term you need to reward your staff on a regular basis. In thinking about the most effective rewards for your team, why not ask them?  Getting employees involved in developing a reward and recognition program is a great way to get buy-in to the program and to ensure it is effectively targeted.  Get a working group tog
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Spring Clean Your HR – Your people are your business

Spring is nearly upon us and what better time to review your people processes? Running a business is all consuming and there are countless distractions that take your time and attention away.  As the old saying goes business owners are “too busy working in the business to work on the business”. It doesn’t have to be that way though. With a bit of planning and consideration, you can improve your businesses HR processes and the satisfaction of your employees – which will save you time and money in
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Unproductive workplace meetings

At the start of every year – we all should try and do something different to the way we worked the previous year.   In my reading over recent weeks I came across an excellent article in the Harvard Business Review about meetings - so I have made that my 2016 focus. The article mentioned how Organisations are drowning in unproductive meetings and a major problem is the fact that we refer to so many dialogue exchanges as "meetings".

Unproductive workplace meetings

A great example is where we have so-call
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Establishing and Communicating targets for employees

How do you go about establishing and communicating targets for employees?  The success of your business revolves around your ability to meet targets and goals!

An employer’s failure to clearly establish targets for an employee.  As well as failing to monitor the employee against those targets, or to provide feedback and support him resulted in a finding of unfair dismissal in Fair Work Commission (FWC). FWC made clear it was the employer’s responsibility to make employees aware of performance standards an
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Redundancy & Stand down

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) recently began legal proceedings against an employer after it attempted to avoid its obligations by placing six of its employees on extended stand down due to a lack of work. Redundancy - happens when an employer either:
  • doesn't need an employee’s job to be done by anyone, or
  • becomes insolvent or bankrupt.
Stand down - involves directing an employee to stop perfo
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HR policies and procedures

There are many benefits to implementing policies and procedures in the workplace and one of these benefits includes allowing an organisation to effectively control and manage its workforce. Regardless of whether the breaches are inadvertent or intentional, you must be equipped to manage these breaches. Having the policy in place is the 1st step and making your employees aware of them is a key part of this process. Therefore, when a serious breach occurs the course of action is clear. However not all of the breaches of p
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Recent underpayment claims

Almost $100,000 back-paid to workers in Melbourne’s South and South-Eastern suburbs Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James says the underpayments should serve to remind all employers about how important it is for them to take the time to ensure they are aware of the minimum pay rates applicable to their staff. “A small mistake left over time can easily result in a hefty bill for back-payment of wages – so it is important employers get it right in the first place,” she said. Recent recoveries include: <
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Pay rates – Easter

Check Easter pay rates ahead of the holidays Employers are urged to check the pay rates and entitlements that apply over the upcoming Easter public holidays. As a business -  it's important you are aware of the public holidays and any penalty rates that apply. Good Friday (April 3) and Easter Monday (April 6) are national public holidays and specifically for Victoria  Saturday (4 April) and  Easter Sunday (5th April) are also Public Holidays.
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Policies & Code of Conduct

You may have seen the article last week re Cotton On's code of conduct which requires employees to uphold the company's values in their interactions with staff and customers, or face disciplinary action, including counselling, warnings and instant dismissal. This included, among other things, "keeping it real". The key issue is – how do you measure/enforce a standard that appears somewhat ambiguous? The message for employers is their policies and codes of conduct must not use a lot of jargon, buzz words or ambiguous lan
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Bakers Delight – Underpayments of wages

More than two dozen apprentice bakers, baker’s assistants and bakery shop assistants – over half of them aged under 21 – have been reimbursed almost $40,000 after the Fair Work Ombudsman found they were being underpaid. The workers were underpaid their minimum hourly rates of pay, casual loadings, weekend and public holiday penalty rates and shift allowances. The individual underpayments ranged from $104 to $3672. Three staff were underpaid by more than $3000, four by more than $2000 and seven by more than $1000. T
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