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Casual Articles - Spinning Gold from Straw: Low-Cost Employee Retention and Motivation Tools in a Changing Economy
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One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement
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“Productivity is up, but fewer people are doing more,” said Jennifer Loftus, SPHR, CCP, CBP, GRP, and National Director of HR consulting firm, Astron Solutions. “In addition, the number of 25-34 year old workers will decline by 2.7 million by 2008, resulting in a predicted shortage of 10 million workers within the next ten years.”
Turnover can be very costly. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), each employee who leaves a company generates a cost. Conservative estimates place that cost at 30% of an employee’s salary. For example, an organization that loses and replaces 150 employees a year, each at an average annualized salary of $50,000, incurs an estimated turnover cost of $2,250,000 in one year.
Making changes to recruitment and retention programs can make a difference. As Loftus explained, “If the same organization that replaced 150 employees were to implement changes, they would enjoy a $22,500 decline in recruitment and retention costs with each 1% decline in turnover. By working to improve the employment relationship, they would also reap the recruiting benefits of a reputation as an employer of choice.”
Communication is the key ingredient in finding what will best motivate and meet employee needs by asking employees directly about what motivates them. “In order to avoid losing valuable employees, employers must expand their retention efforts by getting inside the hearts and minds of employees and candidates,” said Loftus.
One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement i
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Turnover can be very costly. According to the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), each employee who leaves a company generates a cost. Conservative estimates place that cost at 30% of an employee’s salary. For example, an organization that loses and replaces 150 employees a year, each at an average annualized salary of $50,000, incurs an estimated turnover cost of $2,250,000 in one year.
Making changes to recruitment and retention programs can make a difference. As Loftus explained, “If the same organization that replaced 150 employees were to implement changes, they would enjoy a $22,500 decline in recruitment and retention costs with each 1% decline in turnover. By working to improve the employment relationship, they would also reap the recruiting benefits of a reputation as an employer of choice.”
Communication is the key ingredient in finding what will best motivate and meet employee needs by asking employees directly about what motivates them. “In order to avoid losing valuable employees, employers must expand their retention efforts by getting inside the hearts and minds of employees and candidates,” said Loftus.
One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement
The first business of any business is to make a profit...Plain and simple!Think about it...Regardless of what kind of business it is, regardless of whether it's selling a product or a service, regardless of whether it's doing business online or offline, if a business isn't making a profit it doesn't have any reason to exist, does it?However...Profit alone isn't enough.*How* a profit is made has far more to do with the ultimate success or failure of a business than the profit itself.You see...In order for a busi
Making changes to recruitment and retention programs can make a difference. As Loftus explained, “If the same organization that replaced 150 employees were to implement changes, they would enjoy a $22,500 decline in recruitment and retention costs with each 1% decline in turnover. By working to improve the employment relationship, they would also reap the recruiting benefits of a reputation as an employer of choice.”
Communication is the key ingredient in finding what will best motivate and meet employee needs by asking employees directly about what motivates them. “In order to avoid losing valuable employees, employers must expand their retention efforts by getting inside the hearts and minds of employees and candidates,” said Loftus.
One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement
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Communication is the key ingredient in finding what will best motivate and meet employee needs by asking employees directly about what motivates them. “In order to avoid losing valuable employees, employers must expand their retention efforts by getting inside the hearts and minds of employees and candidates,” said Loftus.
One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement
It is important to distinguish between corporate identity, brand identity, and brand image. Corporate identity is concerned with the visual aspects of a company's presence. When companies undertake corporate identity exercises, they are usually modernizing their visual image in terms of logo, design, and collaterals. Such efforts do not normally entail a change in brand values so that the heart of the brand remains the same - what it stands for, or its personality.Unfortunately, many companies do not realize this fallacy, as they are sometimes led to believe
One retention and motivation option is instituting a variable compensation program. Team and small group variable compensation programs link organizations and their employees towards particular goals, while providing several benefits including increased total cash compensation opportunities, no increase to fixed salary costs, greater opportunities to reward top-performing employees and departments, enhanced goal setting, and improvement in organizational processes and fiscal situations.
Astron Solutions’ client, Boston Children’s Hospital launched a small group variable compensation program for their patient financial services department when their days in receivable had increased to 110 days. A quarterly incentive program was formulated focusing on the department’s efforts to decrease days in receivable, with a maximum incentive pool equivalent to 20% of the department's total quarterly payroll. Cash payouts were equal among all employees, with the understanding that performance needed to be kept at satisfactory levels in order to be eligible for participation and payouts.
The results were extremely positive. The employees learned how to work more efficiently together as a team, the hospital greatly decreased its days in receivable which generated positive cash flow, and the employees increased their take-home cash without causing the organization any fiscal strain.
Of course there are other options. Spot cash awards are another option for organizations looking to motivate their employees, as well as non-monetary recognition awards such as public “thank you’s” or recognition in company newsletters for a job well done. In addition, career matrix programs are a way to motivate employees by linking performance, job complexity, and career advancement. What works best really depends on your employees. “Employers should ask their employees how they would like to be rewarded. For example, employees who work for not-for-profit organizations know that money can be tight, and will often be an organization’s best source of ideas with faster buy-in and appreciation,” said Loftus.
With these various choices, employers should not feel like the spinning impaired, miller’s daughte
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