Just rewards : how to reward your staff and reap the benefits

This handbook offers inspiring ideas on rewarding employees and creating a happier, more productive workplace. Managers, professionals and small business owners are provided with proven, low-cost ideas for showing staff appreciation, including pet days, lunchtime yoga, laundering services, and special rooms for sick children. Inspiring ideas from Australian companies on rewarding your staff and creating a happier, more productive workplace.The way you treat an employee, more than any other factor, determines their happiness and effectiveness in the job. And as the race to attract and retain the best personnel hots up, implementing the right rewards for your staff is more important than ever. So, how does your company stack up? Whether you're a small business owner with one employee or a human resources officer for a large corporation, if you aren't recognising the work of your employees, they'll soon be looking elsewhere.Winning companies in Australia are learning new ways to hang on to their staff. And it's not all about big pay rises! The new buzz includes pet days, lunch time yoga, cafes and chill out rooms, office car and laundering services, and special rooms for sick children.•••SOME OF THE BEST REWARDS COST NOTHING•••With hundreds of innovative ideas, this book will help you to choose the right rewards and avoid the wrong ones. You'll find the most effective ways to show your appreciation and say'thank you'.Can you really afford not to? Inspiring ideas from Australian companies on rewarding your staff and creating a happier, more productive workplace.The way you treat an employee, more than any other factor, determines their happiness and effectiveness in the job. And as the race to attract and retain the best personnel hots up, implementing the right rewards for your staff is more important than ever.So, how does your company stack up? Whether you're a small business owner with one employee or a human resources officer for a large corporation, if you aren't recognising the work of your employees, they'll soon be looking elsewhere.Winning companies in Australia are learning new ways to hang on to their staff. And it's not all about big pay rises! The new buzz includes pet days, lunch time yoga, cafes and chill out rooms, office car and laundering services, and special rooms for sick children.***SOME OF THE BEST REWARDS COST NOTHING***With hundreds of innovative ideas, this book will help you to choose the right rewards and avoid the wrong ones. You'll find the most effective ways to show your appreciation and say 'thank you'.Can you really afford not to? Title page......Page 3 Contents......Page 5 Preface......Page 6 1 How to choose the right rewards......Page 9 2 Health and fitness initiatives......Page 24 3 Family friendly practices......Page 43 4 Cash bonuses and profit share......Page 68 5 Community projects......Page 84 6 Professional and personal development......Page 101 7 Management style......Page 123 8 Special events......Page 141 9 Gifts and other non-cash benefits......Page 161 10 A great work space......Page 173 Bibliography......Page 187 Index......Page 189 Offers inspiring ideas on rewarding employees and creating a happier, more productive workplace. This work provides managers, professionals and small business owners with proven, low-cost ideas for showing staff appreciation, including pet days, lunchtime yoga, laundering services, and special rooms for sick children.