The ABP Workforce Experience Awards: Sharing and Celebrating Excellence

The best HR programmes are informed by psychology.  Business psychology at its best improves working lives.  It also produces tangible business results. Are you using psychology to improve your work?  It may be easier than you think!

The Workforce Experience Awards uniquely assess workplace programmes that are informed and improved by psychology.  Entrants to the awards have proven how it can be used to reduce attrition, improve engagement, increase inclusion, promote wellbeing, successfully embed change and much more. Consider the case from McDonalds. Winner of the 2014 Excellence in Recruitment Assessment category, McDonalds achieved 35% to 50% reduction in candidate volumes, 25% reduction in time to hire and a 66% reduction in their application-to-hire ratio by applying business psychology principles in their UK store recruitment.  Plantronics, another winner from 2014 increased their workforce’s job satisfaction by 40%, reduced headcount turnover from 15% to 3.2%, increased employee ‘intent to stay’ to 98%, reduced attrition from 12% to 2.3% and reduced absenteeism from 12.7% to 3.5%. In this way, business psychology is increasing organisations’ success every day.

The Awards for 2015 have seen entries from many employers, large and small, and finalists include GSK, Boots, Jaguar Land Rover, IBM, PwC, Arup and dozens more.

You can hear first-hand about how psychology has improved HR practice from over 25 of these finalists at the Awards Conference on 12 May 2015.  The conference is highly interactive, with finalists hosting round table discussions, sharing their experiences and taking questions.  They’ll discuss their approaches to assessment, coaching, training, engagement, performance improvement, change management and more.  Participants in last year’s sessions said, “The setup of different events to attend was brilliant and catered to all needs.”   “The conference was really interesting and created good engagement. There was a buzz.” “Useful to be able to talk in small groups in an informal way; I found the round tables an unusual and innovative format and a refreshing change to the usual conference formats.” “Really great and it was a very friendly open atmosphere. The ABP staff were great and created a hospitable, informal feel. Not stiff, stuffy and formal as these things can be. Yet professional and high quality.” “It was a great event overall. I liked the variation on format , round tables, interviews, presentations.”