Employee Recognition and Engagement

Level 4 - Strategic & Pervasive

  • Senior leaders’ model desired behaviours.
  • Strategic approach to recognising ethical and positive behaviours.
  • The FRS recognises engagement of staff in projects and work is necessary for better outcomes for customers and as a means of rewarding inputs.
  • Regular recognition is perceived as desired and valued by staff.
  • Employee recognition is seen as valuable and matches preferences.
  • Employees receive regular specific and positive feedback.
  • Development of tools and methods that measure and capture employee feedback on a real time basis to continually adjust management practices and the work environment.
  • Employees are involved in creation of actions and projects and are integral to implementation of new actions.
  • Commitment to improving human experience and building a flexible, happy and inclusive workplace.
  • Ideas are widely shared and consulted, owned at all levels with origin recognised.

Level 3 - Aligned & Reinforced

  • Senior leaders communicate & recognise desired behaviours.
  • Culture of continuous and ongoing recognition.
  • Use of technology to make recognition easier, more flexible and more frequent.
  • Achievements are recognised at most levels across the service.
  • Commitment to improving employee engagement.
  • Transparency in organisational actions.
  • Continuous investment in people.
  • Offering ample opportunities for personal and professional development e.g. actively encouraging and supporting CPD activities.
  • Supportive and empowering line management and leadership.
  • Ideas are shared consistently and managed to some extent, defined channels clear and clear ownership at a senior level.
  • Enhanced terms and conditions to support employee wellbeing.

Level 2 - Standardised

  • Senior leaders support recognition.
  • Clear recognition criteria.
  • Providing recognition and rewards that employees value.
  • Varied types of recognition.
  • Increased recognition transparency & visibility.
  • Some peer-to-peer recognition.
  • Commitment to improving employee experience.
  • Flexible work environment and autonomy.
  • Ideas are shared consistently, but with no real management of ideas and some loss of origin or ownership.
  • Fair, inclusive and diverse work environment.

Level 1 - Inconsistent and ad hoc

  • Uneven senior leader support of recognition.
  • No clear recognition criteria.
  • Some token recognition given, mostly top-down.
  • Commitment to offering work/life balance.
  • Ideas are not shared, or shared inconsistently.
  • Access to coaching given.
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