Give employees a say

Article Type: Abstracts From: Human Resource Management International Digest, Volume 20, Issue 2

Lytle T. HRMagazine (USA), October 2011, Vol. 56 No. 10, Start page: 68, No. of pages: 5

Underlines the power of employee suggestions to provide companies with money-saving ideas and new products and services. Advises how to develop an effective employee-suggestion scheme, drawing on examples from US firms to illustrate how it can be done. Discusses how to tailor the ways of attracting suggestions to different kinds of workforce; how to handle the different types of suggestion that emerge; and how to reward the employees whose suggestions are implemented. ISSN: 1047-3149 Reference: 40AT749

Keywords: Suggestion schemes, Employees involvement