Category Description
If you are a business that demonstrates values and respects your employees by supporting and delivering well thought out and successful workplace schemes, then you are eligible for this award.
The award will focus on comprehensive programmes developed to enhance employee well-being, promote employee activities which support needs, promote sustainability and encourage a healthy work life balance. Judges will review volunteer schemes, staff energy efficiency, sustainable transport, facilities management and payroll giving. Programmes will have been primarily delivered during 2014-16 and can focus on one or all of these key areas.
Judges will be rewarding businesses that have implemented innovative workplace practices that care for and protect employees, enhance the work environment for staff at all levels and recognise employees as valued contributors to the organisation. They will also consider innovative and engaging programmes to motivate staff in following their employer’s core values by the way of staff schemes and eco-friendly work schemes.
In judging this award the panel will specifically be looking for evidence of: project verification mechanisms, quantifying the results of the initiative; the degree of innovation shown by the entrant in developing, delivering and engaging employees in the programme(s); how the organisation raised awareness to promote the offerings; and the extent to which the entry is part of an integrated scheme to improve employee relations. There is no specific time frame for this award, however judges will be looking for evidence of significant development for legacy initiatives.
Criteria
Judges will be looking for evidence of the following points within the supplied application form (weighting percentages in brackets):
- How the project was scoped and developed to set new standards for innovation and creativity; improving the working conditions and delivering work-life balance; (20%)
- The measurement of impact on employee well-being: how they benefited and learned, whether they felt valued, and how their work performance improved based on the initiatives. (20%)
- Awareness raising of the project to promote the scheme within the organisation and it’s engagement with staff, including the support from senior management; (15%)
- The measurement of diversity and engagement: whether the schemes positively reached a broad range of employees from junior level to executives, and how the scheme fostered interaction and promoted empowerment on a long-term basis; (30%)
- Evidence of the scheme to be part of a wider organisational effort to improve employee value by providing a healthier more sustainable, connected and giving workplace. (15%)