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IBM announces finalists for NZ’s Best Workplaces Awards 2015

Published: Fri 25 Sep 2015 10:00 AM
IBM announces finalists for New Zealand’s Best Workplaces Awards 2015
IBM Kenexa (NYSE: IBM) today announced the finalists of its annual Best Workplaces Survey and Awards, New Zealand’s largest and longest running study of workplace climate and employee engagement. This year over 30,000 employees from 193 New Zealand organisations in the private and public sectors participated, with 41 workplaces reaching finalist status across five categories: Small, Small-Medium, Medium-Large, Large and Enterprise.
Sixty-five percent of this year's finalists also achieved finalist status in 2014, demonstrating the continued importance New Zealand employers are placing on engaging their employees.
In 2015, the largest improvements were made by organisations in the Bottom 25% Benchmark group – demonstrating that all organisations that participate in the programme can see real benefits. This group recorded particular improvements in the areas of clarity of organisational vision, feedback and performance measurement, and employee recognition for great work.
Overall, ‘caring about employee well-being’ made the biggest gains across Best Workplaces survey participants. This reflects a current trend, with many businesses understanding that genuine concern for the physical and emotional health of employees is part of being a great employer.
“It’s clear from the survey results that the organisations taking on board the feedback from their people and translating it into action, are seeing positive results,” says Leighton Abbot, Senior Consultant, IBM Smarter Workforce for New Zealand. “We are really encouraged to see that more New Zealanders are feeling motivated and enthused about their work. This in turn is lifting staff perceptions of customer service delivery and organisational success.”
Analysing the data received via the survey provides business leaders with key insights about their organisations from their most valuable assets: their people. The insights identify the characteristics that make their workplace great places to work, as well as areas to improve in order to increase engagement levels. Organisations also gain a more accurate view of what is needed to retain critical talent.
The winners will be announced at the Awards Dinner on 5 November in Auckland.
Follow the conversation at #BestWorkNZ.
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