Tag: workforce engagement
How to foster innovation
Aligning the goals of employees, managers and the board creates a productive and efficient corporate environment.
Top companies dismiss concept of workers on boards
Research finds FTSE 100 firms are still rejecting the 2018 proposal of improving workforce engagement by appointing a worker to the board.
Pandemic ‘has shown how vital employees are to corporate success’
Chartered Governance Institute report reveals 53% of FTSE 350 firms have changed their approach to “workforce voice” during Covid-19.
Workforce voice in corporate governance: where are we now?
FRC research into implementation of requirements on workforce engagement shows that progress has been patchy.
Worker engagement report reveals ‘pockets’ of good practice
Few companies have put employees on the board, but those that have prove the option is “not incompatible” with UK governance.
FTSE 100 rejects idea of employee director to boost worker engagement
A study into compliance with workforce engagement provisions in the UK Corporate Governance Code shows no firms chose an employee director.
CEO activism: should leaders speak up about social causes?
Nearly two-thirds of people want CEOs to take the lead on policy change instead of government. Here are three rules on when and why a CEO should speak up.
Investor urges boards to embrace worker representation set out by new code
Hermes chief executive Saker Nusseibeh is pleased the new UK Corporate Governance Code sets out a number of paths that boards can follow to improve worker representation.
Investors: revised code ‘too narrowly’ focused on workforce engagement
The Investment Association has told the UK’s governance watchdog that its revisions of the country’s corporate governance code is too focused on the workforce and that board engagement should focus on “material stakeholders”.