article thumbnail

A Case for Employee Engagement in Improving Work Culture

HR Digest

feel that their work is contributing to the overall goals of the company. Onboarding plays a vital role in connecting new employees with their daily tasks, goals, and the company’s overall vision and mission. Do you offer flextime? First, let’s walk through the benefits of increasing motivation. Engaged workers…. ONBOARDING.

Flextime 103
article thumbnail

Stop Bribing and Starting Leading

The Practical Leader

It sets a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle into motion — incentives, inducements, rewards, and the like leave people feeling manipulated and overly focused on what they get for complying with management’s goals and direction (tuned only to WIFM — “what’s in it for me”). Job sharing? Work from home?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

In turn, we adapted our culture to meet their needs — casual dress codes, flextime, healthy lifestyle options, community involvement, challenging work, more defined advancement. We analyzed, overanalyzed, and re-analyzed what future leaders, Generations Y and Z, sought in a desired employer.

article thumbnail

How to know if a company has work-life balance?

HR Digest

I don’t mind working late now and then, but right now I’m looking for a company that helps employees achieve more than just career goals with proper work-life balance. What about flextime? I’ve been invited to interview, and I’m not sure how to tell if a company really believes in work-life balance?

Company 95
article thumbnail

5 Signs You’re Not Being Treated Fairly at Work

Strategy Driven

Some examples of this include travel perks, “cherry” projects, flextime, and more. Goals Change and Progress Disregarded. Let’s say a person is given a directive with specific objectives, as well as an end goal and timeline. They work hard and remain focused only to discover there’s a change in the direction of the project.

article thumbnail

Promotion without a raise? Experts weigh in

HR Digest

During a wage freeze, Natalie Wolowitz, executive vice president at an Illinois-based staffing agency, suggests looking at other aspects of the job that can be negotiated – such as flextime, a LinkedIn or edX learning account, stipend for holiday travel, tuition reimbursement or stock options, etc. Not all scenarios are fair.

article thumbnail

How to Be a Family-Friendly Boss

Harvard Business Review

Frequent sessions between supervisor and employee (timed around the rhythms of client projects rather than arbitrary annual deadlines) should focus on goal-setting and coaching as much as reviewing accomplishments.