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Royal Bank of Scotland's (RBS) total reward strategy includes pay and employee benefits, but also focuses on learning and development for its 93,000 UK staff. RBS's Your Choice programme includes [...]

In the past year, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has expanded its career development programmes, while translating elements of its head office working environment into its 800 UK restaurants. Its advanced [...]

When Volvo Car UK wanted to boost sales of its SE Lux and executive- level vehicles last year, it launched a motivation programme for sales staff that had a personalised [...]

Technology and business services firm Allstate Northern Ireland has launched a corporate Isa with payroll deductions for its 1,900 employees. The WorkSave Isa, provided by Legal and General, was introduced [...]

After a staff buyout from KBC Bank, broking house Peel Hunt had the opportunity to create its own reward strategy to increase employee engagement. Over the years, Peel Hunt had [...]

Asda offers its staff a 10% discount card after three months service. The card can be used in any Asda store in the UK and in any global Walmart, Asda's [...]

Yorkshire Water, which first introduced total reward statements in 2006, tried issuing them online in 2007 but has since returned to paper. Its change of heart followed lower-than-expected logins achieved [...]

Vocational qualification awarding body City and Guilds saw the need to deliver value to staff at a time when reward is under pressure, so it took advantage of the partnership [...]

Sodexo Remote Sites Scotland operates a points-based recognition scheme for its 1,000 UK staff. This includes long-service awards, thank-you cards, an award for great ideas, and a site of the [...]

Kent County Council has an unusual approach to public sector pay. It introduced local pay rates in 1990 and, over the past five years, has allowed unions to engage in [...]

Communications technology firm Metaswitch rewards employees who go the extra mile with treats such as vouchers for meals for two. The company, which has 540 staff, gives newlyweds wine glasses [...]

Lingerie retailer Bravissimo supports its staff with a host of small gifts, including shopping vouchers, cupcakes and jars of sweets. Laura Meneaud, HR director, says: 'We like the little-and-often approach, [...]

Stockbroker TD Waterhouse International knows the importance of keeping staff in smaller offices motivated. The firm's headquarters is based in Leeds, but it has smaller offices in Manchester, Birmingham, London [...]

Commercial property investment and development company Sergo spontaneously hands out Red Letter Day experience vouchers worth #250 to individual employees to recognise good work and thank them for a job [...]

When Norwich Union became Aviva on 1 June last year, a new flexible benefits scheme played a key part in the company's corporate rebranding and internal communications strategy. In keeping [...]

DHL Express recognises loyalty by rewarding staff who stay with the firm for 10, 20 and 30 years. The firm's long-service scheme, launched in June 2006, awards retail vouchers worth [...]

Just over one in 10 (11.5%) of the Law Society's 1,400 employees have opted to take cash instead of perks under the organisation's new flexible benefits scheme, launched at the [...]

Computacenter is reviewing its benefits package with the aim of helping staff until better times arrive. Barry Hoffman, director of human resources, says: 'In the current climate, staff value job [...]

Consumer magazine publisher IPC Media employs more than 2,000 people in locations around the UK. The firm's sick pay arrangements vary depending on length of service and, although income protection [...]

Severn Trent Water has used motivational vouchers since 1994 to reward staff who have played an important role in resolving crisis situations, such as last year's floods in Gloucestershire. Severn [...]

Construction and property company Henry Boot granted a new set of options through its sharesave scheme last November to help motivate staff by giving them a stake in the business. [...]

Recruitment solutions company Adecco is reviewing its recognition schemes in light of the recession, with the aim of rewarding more employees for demonstrating company values or displaying outstanding performance. Previously, [...]

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is trialling total reward statements to help staff appreciate the true value of its benefits. Dave Lawrence, vice president, compensation and benefits, Europe, Middle East and [...]

Construction firm Laing O'Rourke aimed to identify where problems with the psychological contract could occur by holding exit interviews to find out what had motivated employees to leave the organisation. [...]

In the present economic climate, Jim McInally, HR director, reward, resourcing and employee relations at BT, believes employers should ensure that their business strategies and reward packages are closely linked [...]

In 2006, EasyJet wanted to create a motivation scheme for its 5,500 employees that reinforced its business goals of keeping costs low, safety paramount, and customer service high. To achieve [...]

Fujitsu Services is well equipped to motivate staff during the credit crunch, having introduced a new reward and recognition programme almost two years ago. The programme, which was introduced a [...]

Each year, the Eden Project appoints a working party of employees to decide how best to spend benefits cash. Leah Brewer, people development manager at the ecological attraction, says: 'A [...]

Last year, Punch Taverns launched an instant reward programme for both its head office and pub employees to encourage staff to demonstrate the organisation's values. Through the scheme called Proud, [...]

In anticipation of next year's legislative changes, BT's reward team is focused on ensuring the structure of its benefits package is optimised to minimise risk. Jim McInally, HR director, reward [...]

The scheme, which offers a free share for every share purchased as long as the stock is held for three years, has so far achieved a 30% take up. When [...]

Transport company GNER holds an annual awards ceremony to recognise and reward employees' efforts, which includes a peer-nominated category. This year, the event was extended to all employees instead of [...]

Bank of America offers a recognition programme that rewards employees at all levels of the organisation, but which also includes a strand tailored to senior management. Claire Popejoy, reward specialist [...]

BDO Stoy Hayward currently offers its employees paper-based motivation vouchers, but is in the process of looking at moving across to an electronic scheme. One particular issue prompting this shift [...]

Sickness absence is almost non-existent in the London-based construction industry recruitment company Consensus. All 12 employees are offered private medical insurance (PMI) after they have been with the firm for [...]

Asda believes that for benefits to motivate staff, they must make employees feel valued and part of the company. To enable staff to join in the overall success of Asda, [...]

Kleinwort Benson Private Bank tends to motivate staff on an individual basis, by assessing each new employee in order to identify what drives them at work. This insight is used [...]

Hugh Symons Communications is constantly looking for new ways to motivate employees in its 850 retail outlets across the UK. The mobile phone airtime distributor introduced an online bonus reward [...]

At B&Q, the focus is very much on using learning and development, and performance-related pay as motivational tools. Andrew Moat, reward solutions and service manager, is aware of the theories [...]

Where did it all go wrong? You seemed perfect for each other. The passionate and ambitious interviewee who wanted to advance within the company and deliver results. And you, the [...]

Using light-hearted incentives can be a powerful motivator, but Alison Coleman questions employers' ability to gauge if they are making a return on investment Employers which want to motivate their [...]