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Recognising the importance of workplace culture
Hays is sponsoring the Best Company to Work For category in this year’s Thames Valley Business Awards, having seen the importance of workplace culture when it comes to attracting and motivating employees
According to Hays in Reading, a leading recruitment expert, in a growing market employers face an even greater ongoing challenge to attract and retain the best employees for their organisation and the workplace culture and practices can make a huge difference to the success of an organisation.
Hays works closely with employers to help them understand
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the recruitment trends in the region, supporting them in attracting and retaining the best people for their organisation. The team, that includes 70 recruitment consultants covering a range of disciplines, including finance, marketing, construction, HR, procurement, IT and office support, recruits for roles ranging from senior executives for major corporations to office support staff for SMEs, across permanent, temporary and contract roles. Mehran Yadegari, director at Hays, said:“We’re able to make a real difference to employers because we can provide specialist advice in our different sectors with clear strategy on attraction as well as retention. It’s for this reason that we feel this category matches the Hays profile perfectly."
The 2013 winner - The Retail Marketing Group
Winning the Best Company to Work for in the Thames Valley in 2013 was clearly a great accolade for us and one that really recognises all the work everyone in the company does to make it a great place to work, writes Warren Richmond, managing director of The Retail Marketing Group.
Our culture is something I spend a large amount of time focusing on - lots of businesses capture a set of values, write them in a booklet, display them on a wall and leave it at that, but for us it doesn’t work like that. Culture is often defined simply as “the way we do things around here” and I have made it my focus to ensure the way Retail Marketing does things is geared towards making a fun and enjoyable place to work.
Winning the award gave a clear boost and proved all the steps we have in place such as quarterly staff engagement surveys, senior management field visits and our incentives have made us a great place to work but what makes this all the more satisfying is our high proportion of field-based staff. Maintaining engagement for this community who might go one - two weeks between seeing another Retail Marketing colleague is more of a challenge when compared to our employees who spend their working week enveloped within our environment.
What the award does mean though is that we have only one way to go, so to make sure we don’t lose what we refer to internally as our “fairy dust” I have changed my job role to chief excitement officer, allowing me to focus on exciting everyone in the business
The Retail Marketing Group team collected their award from Mark Sheldon (right) of Hays
and making sure we delight our clients that range from the FMCG to gaming sector. We have also focused on our internal communications and introduced regular meetings to keep us in touch with our field representatives.
Off the back of the award we have seen some great results, with a boost in the numbers of people applying to join the company and personally having the opportunity to network with some other great companies. This award demonstrates the importance of the work environment and that extrinsic benefits are not solely enough to keep employees motivated – as the economy begins to pick up intrinsic factors will rise in importance as firms will struggle to compete on salary alone.
Details: Mehran Yadegari 0118-9070329
mehran.yadegari@hays.com www.hays.com
THE BUSINESS MAGAZINE – THAMES VALLEY – JULY/AUGUST 2014
www.businessmag.co.uk
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