Best Employer Insight from Aon Hewitt

AON Hewitt, one of our valued partners in Australia and New Zealand, have again come through with some fascinating insights in their latest “Best Employers” study. The full report is available here.

The study focuses on 120 Australasian organisations with a combined workforce of 70,000.
Consistent with their previous studies, organisations observing best practice in people management (the “Best Employers’) on AON Hewitt’s criteria, out-performed the norm in terms of sales growth and profitability.

One of the interesting points in the report is that not only are leaders at Best Employers more engaged with their organisations than the average company leader, they “held the key to employee engagement” with staff. This is based on getting six key practices right - communication, showing respect, visibility and accessibility, passion for the organisation’s future, clear direction and sound decision making.

Great talent management supports and enhance these practices, something we discuss in our eBook “Does your approach to Performance Management 'Sing' or 'Sting'? How to focus on practices that create meritocracies, and avoid being seduced by the technology.”