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Events agency MotivAction has become
‘one to watch’ in the Best Companies Accreditation Scheme.
In its second year of applying, the Hertfordshire based company
has succeeded in gaining elite national accreditation through
the scheme, which awards ‘Michelin style’ star ratings and
accreditation scores for outstanding workplaces and investment
in people.
The Best Companies scheme uses a confidential
survey designed to measure employee and workplace engagement
across eight factors. Based on a 1-1000 Best Companies Index
(BCI) scale, scores are defined by employee responses to 16
key questions.
Of the 653 companies applying for accreditation
in 2008, only 48 achieved the highest 3 star award. MotivAction
improved on its 2007 BCI score of 601, achieving 619 points
and ranking forty points away from a 1 star rating. This has
led to the company’s ‘one to watch’ status.
MotivAction’s managing director, Tim Waygood,
is optimistic about the possibility of attaining a star rating:
‘We’ve jumped up by 18 points this year,
and now we’re only 40 points away from a star rating. With
more progress this year, we’ll be hoping for a star in 2009!
This displays the great workplace set-up we have cultivated
here, and it’s good to see that the changes we have put in
place, like our environmental policies, have been well received
by colleagues.’
A defining factor in MotivAction’s accreditation
was a large shift in employee opinion in the survey’s ‘giving
something back’ category. Here, MotivAction saw a 16% increase
in positive employee opinion from 2007. This category is designed
to explore how much people think their organisation puts back
into society. The company also saw a 5% increase in opinion
over well-being issues.
The large increase in positive opinion
about ‘giving something back’ is likely to be the result of
MotivAction’s large scale adoption of environmental policies
in 2007, culminating in the company filing a copy of their
CSR policy with Companies House. Waygood says:
‘Our CSR policy is now out there in the
public domain. We believe we are the first events company to
file a CSR or environmental policy with Companies House, and
this serves to highlight, once again, our commitment to operate
as a sustainable business’
During the 2008 Best Companies survey,
the responses of 140,000 employees were analysed to produce
the list of accredited companies. The Best Companies list is
published both in print and online, and acts as a useful guide
for jobseekers and graduates.
Says Jonathan Austin, chief executive
of Best Companies:
“I congratulate these companies on their
outstanding achievement. Our role at Best Companies is to set
a rigorous benchmark so that organisations can become even
better employers. This year it is encouraging to see that the
number of companies entering the accreditation scheme for excellence
in workplace engagement has grown by one third." |
