8 Tips to retain the best of your employees

In any business, big or small, one of the major tasks is to retain the best and most skilled employees. There’re a lot of things a person must keep in mind, when handling employees. For a long term stay in an organisation, any employee would have certain expectations from the organisation. Let us check the,

8 tips on how to retain the best of your employees

Gapeseed Consulting emphasizes on Employee Motivation, Engagement and Appreciation as the prime factor in retaining an organisational culture. Any culture is defined by the people, the employees and the teams. And to turn people into employees and then team, you need to create a culture and the following tips shall help:

• Reward, Recognition and Appreciation

If an employee works up to the standard, or does something out of the box for organizational benefit, he / she in return expects and deserves appreciation. This appreciation could be done in the form of rewards, like increments, trophies, bonus, monetary awards, additional perks. The employee should get due recognition for the hard work and dedication.

• Equitable treatment

Every employee, working on the same level, putting the same amount of effort deserves equal opportunities and equal treatment. For example, if in an organisation, ‘A’ is paid more than ‘B’, working on the same level because he’s connected to the senior, it will automatically pull B’s morale down. If there’s any discrimination against an employee, he would probably start finding other opportunities for growth.

• Proper Supervision

People leave managers and supervisors more often than they leave companies or jobs. The expectations for employees should be well defined to prevent confusions and agony in the future.
There should be clarity about expectations,earning potential,feedback about performance, scheduled meetings.

• Freedom of expression

Any employee wouldn’t want to leave an organization where he is free to express his thoughts and ideas, sometimes employees can come up with brilliant strategies and ideas and when they are left unheard or ignored, it lowers the employees morale. Their expression can prove to be very beneficial.

• Don’t threaten employees’ job or income

A threat to an employee’s job or income makes him feel as if he needs to search for a new platform to exploit his potential. Under any circumstances, this shouldn’t be done to the hardworking and dedicated employees.

• Clean out the dead weight

This sounds tough, but works for an organization’s benefit. There may be people in the organisation who hold other employees back in certain ways like negativity, unethical work, politics, gossips etc. Great people need to work with other great people. Do the hard work of removing those who slow everyone else and the organisation down.

• Friendly Competition

Employees can be put into friendly competition; this could be done by building teams and framing equal time spans for completion of certain tasks. These tasks could fetch the employees awards in form of monetary rewards, trophies etc. Such competitions, help employees work harder to increase their potential and opportunities.

• Above market Standard Rate

When some employees work beyond their boundaries, beyond their comfort for the benefit of the firm, they deserve more than the rate established by the market. This doesn’t imply that they need to be given sky high salaries, somewhere 20%-30% above the standard rate for the job so that they value doing it in the firm.

The above are 8 tips to retain the best of your employees, the same can be picked individually or one at a time. The idea is to make stronger and more approachable workplaces by creating an appropriate environment. You can connect with Gapeseed Consulting for processes or interim HR services through consultants to create HR Systems and align them with your organisational goals.

Feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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Employee Provident Fund.

EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND

Employee’s Provident Fund is a scheme which helps in providing financial assistance to the workers by saving their own money for future use after retirement. This scheme of Employee Provident Fund has been carried forward by the government for the welfare of its retired citizens and also for those who are disabled to work. The employees and their employers have to contribute a fixed amount of money from their salaries at a constant rate within a particular time interval in the Provident Fund to get interests after retirement. When the Provident Fund matures, it provides a good return and interest of the invested money as the money received will be Tax-free. The Employees Provident Fund can also be used before retirement in case of an emergency such as when a person is unfit for employment, this provides a type of monetary security to the employee. This scheme is growing at an increasing speed and is backed by many intellectual people in the business and finance industry.

APPLICABILITY AND ELIGIBLITY IN IMPLEMENTATIONOF PROVIDENT FUND

APPLICABILITY

• A company or any other Business entity having 20 or more employees working for the business must register for the Employee’s Provident Fund.
• The employers and the employees have to issue an amount of Rs.1800 per month into their Employees Provident Fund.
• When the amount has been transferred into the Employees Provident Fund, a small contribution is also made to the Pension, Insurance and Administrative Cost account.
• In case of a company which has more losses than its entire net worth can contribute 10% of their compensations in their Employees Provident Fund.

ELIGIBILITY

• An employee working under any company is qualified to participate in the scheme of Employees Provident Fund.
• Any company having 20 or more employees is eligible of participating in this scheme.
• Whenever an employee exceeds the amount of Rs.6500 in their salaries, then they have the eligibility to join the scheme with the permission of its employer.
• When a person becomes the member of this scheme, they have to contribute 12% of their rewards in the Employees Provident Fund.

BENEFITS

Insurance

In most of the organisations employee’s insurance schemes are not available to the employees of the company, Employees Provident Fund provides that scheme for the security and stability of the employee in the future. For getting insured, the business entity just need to provide a sum of Rs.6500 on a monthly basis to ensure an insurance premium benefit. Insurance helps an employee in case of an emergency, also provides a good amount of money after maturity for the survival of their family.

Pension

When an employee has retired, and does not have any source of monetary income, pension provides that source for the employee. A part of the employees pay also goes into the Employee’s Pension Fund, which provides an employee a sense of security after retirement.

Tax Free

Upon maturity of the Employees Provident Fund, the interest received by the employee’s will be tax free. This results in proper stability and security of employees as they get vast interest on their invested amount.

Financial Security

The Employees Provident Fund provides financial security for the employees at the time of retirement, emergencies and at loss of income. Employees Provident Fund provides a source of financial assistance to the retired personnel as well as gives funds to the employee to meet their requirements in case of an emergency, early drawings are allowed only in case of an emergency. When an employee cannot work, or has any disability to work, provident fund helps them to overcome their loss of income and provides means to survive. Also, if the employee has passed away then the funds are passed on to their applicant to provide them with financial assistance.

Long Term

The Employees Provident Fund allows the employees to have some kind of monetary security in the long run, it also ensures that the employee can have certain investment or any other goal after retirement. Resources can also be borrowed in the Long Run for marriage, education, medical reasons and also for housing purposes.

Withdrawal

Employees Provident Fund also provides the benefit of withdrawal to the employee. An employee can withdraw their money only when they are unemployed, self-employed or have left the current job to work in another company. In case of any emergency, an employee can withdraw the amount in its provident fund before the time of maturity. Pre-mature withdrawal can also be treated as a loan as an employee can use the money for education, marriage, medical expenses. These withdrawals must not be more than 50% of the amount in the provident fund.

Transfer

An employee can also transfer its provident fund account rather than closing it whenever they are leaving their current job and joining a new employer. Transferring of the funds from an old account to a new one is a better option because if an account is closed before 5 years then the money contributed in that account will then become tax deductible whereas by transferring of funds, an employee will get the money in full at maturity.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE FOR EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND

The Employees Provident Fund registration is now mainly done Online as it is more convenient and accessible for an organisation. A business entity having less than 20 employees can apply for the scheme voluntarily, but an organisation having more than 20 have to register their company for this scheme to avoid penalties in delaying the registration. The procedure for registering for the Employees Provident Fund is as follows:

• The company must provide the name, address, branch details, head office details and the Date on which the company was established.
• The organisation must also provide the total strength of employees working as well as the services provided by the company.
• They must also provide the legal proof that if the company is a partnership, private limited company or a public limited.
• The total salary distribution to the employees of the company must be provided with the details of the bank in which the company has its account.
• The Directors or the owners of the company have to provide legal documents to prove that the documents are verified. The address of all the owners must be given with the details of all the employees including date of joining, salary.
• A copy of the partnership deed must be given to prove that the company is registered with the Registrar of Companies.
• PAN details of the Business entity must also be provided.

For more information on EMPLOYEES PROVIDENT FUND, feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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Simple Tips to Design a Salary Structure for an Employee

Having an absolute salary structure makes it easier to manage your salary expenditure. Not to mention, it can help you retain your current employees, as well as make your recruiting, hiring and promoting efforts more focused and easier to execute.

If you’re considering creating a salary structure, here are a few tips to help you get started.

Benchmark jobs

It should start from here, you need to know the value of each position you offer in your organization. Know the market, know your competition and see what others are paying for similar jobs. There are a variety available salary survey sources that can provide you with data related to salary information for various positions and different industries. You could easily know about benchmark jobs, but this mostly works out for jobs in which duties and responsibilities are generally defined. Once you have identified the benchmark jobs you can compare the market rate according to your budget, you could use statistical procedures to plan it up. Or you can simple get in touch with our HR department.

Consider company’s competitive position

The competitive position of company is its overall salary level compared to market average when compared with the benchmark jobs. This helps you answer if the salary rates for your employees currently above, below or comparable to the rates of your competitors. You should decide what competitive position suits best to your company. Some other things which could be solved by doing this could be if you need to pay at a higher-than- market level so to retain your current employees? Pay according to the market level which attracts better quality candidates or pay according to your budget.

Set-up compensable leverage

Compensable leverage refers to how much more or less salary rate increases in your company, overall, compared to the market rate increase for higher-paid positions in the organizational hierarchy. See this for an example, when employees are promoted to a higher position within the organization, will they receive an increase in salary rate that is similar to, greater than or less than the rate increase provided, on average, in the market. It’s important to determine the desired compensable leverage for your company. This will allow you strike a balance between providing attractive salary increases to employees for promotional opportunities and maintaining an affordable salary practice.

Develop a salary structure

Now that you have the data from the market and your internal and external resources together using this information, you can develop the salary structure for your company. You should also decide if you want to offer a specific salary range – with a minimum and maximum rate – for each position, or if you want to create pay grades in which multiple positions with similar market rates are grouped together within the same range.

Get your current employees up to par

Once you have established a salary structure, possibly with pay grades, then you’ll want to look at your current employees’ salary rates compared to the range to see if anyone is being paid below the minimum rate or above the maximum rate. This involves determining whether the salary rates of any employees should be adjusted to achieve market alignment to have competitive position as created through the structure. If an employee is being paid below the range minimum, it’s recommended that you increase the salary rate, either immediately or incrementally over time, until it hits the minimum rate. If an employee is being paid above the range maximum then it’s recommended that you suspend the person’s next salary increase until market movement warrants an adjustment.

Sometimes these practices are acceptable if the positions in question have a significantly greater or less of strategic importance to an organization than it has to competitors. You’ll want to do a systematic analysis of all of these things mentioned in above steps. This will help you have a good basis for creating your salary structure.

If you would like to get your organization’s salary structure in place feel free to drop us an email at info@gapeseedconsulting.com or you can also call us +91-9599444630 else drop us a line here.

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7 Qualities for Recruitment Process Outsourcing

Hiring the right recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) provider is a major organizational decision, one that will have a direct impact on your organization’s talent. If you’re not sure exactly how to hire the right Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider, you’re not alone. The other day we headed to a mall just to grab some quick bite on our way back from a meeting.

Our ‘Happy Hour’ moment was soon put to an end after my teammate took the first bite of his burger. Apparently he is allergic to mayonnaise and he specifically asked to do away with it while ordering. When he went to complaint about it, the boy who took his order bluntly replied that they can never make these kinds of mistakes. Anybody would get furious to such comment and my teammate wasn’t any different. After much argument, the manager came forward to apologize for the whole situation and made the boy do the same. Later we learnt that the boy has joined only a couple of weeks back and he has made such mistakes for over a couple of times. Now post this incident, I don’t know whether the boy was fired but the outlet definitely lost two of his customers – me and my team member.

There are a lot of factors to consider when choosing an RPO provider. Zeroing down to the right one is a good challenge. In my years of involvement in the RPO industry, we have been able to identify some key considerations companies should take when hiring an RPO.

They Do the Homework, Customize & Train

A reputed brand definitely needs the right provider who can assess the skills of the employee, train them accordingly and then make the right placement. If they keep hiring people who don’t fit the requirement, the outcome could be worst for any given brand or organisation. So picking up the right RPO is as important as getting the right people to work for your business.

You need to ascertain that the agency is not offering existing packages, they are doing the homework to understand your business and the consumer insights before giving an RPO proposal for your business.

Good packages come at a good price

Although price is a significant factor in hiring an RPO provider, it definitely shouldn’t be a deterrent. The RPO experience is based on improving any current hiring weaknesses in the company while playing to the company’s strengths. The price is simply what you pay in order for you to ultimately see greater returns when all is said and done. What you should consider is how much more effective and efficient an RPO will make your hiring process. When an RPO provider brings the proper resources and experience to bear on your recruiting process, you should expect overall improvement and a significant return on your investment.

Not just a provider, work like partners

The provider can’t just work alone. The relation between your company and the provider must be like partners. Though you may not get an opportunity to get actively involved in the recruitment but you must follow up regularly. The system of the provider should be flexible enough so that it lets you sit with their team to discuss the situation, work out a schedule and do regular reporting and reviews. You can’t leave outsourcing firms hanging; you must make sure you are there with them like partners.

Security check for a secured process

Since you will be sharing confidential business information with the provider, checking on security is something that you must foremost find out. Ask for a detailed description of how they have protected their facility from outside intrusion; ask if they have a recovery plan in case of a security breach. Find out about the firewall and other security measures taken by the provider. Also ensure if the provider’s data center is staffed with qualified, experienced and committed resources.

Specific services for specific needs

You need to asses if the RPO provider is simply trying to sell you their services by over promising or if they are genuinely committed to tailoring their services to meet your unique needs. The best way to evaluate a prospective service provider is to examine their service track record from multiple perspectives. You can get in touch with the provider’s existing customers if their needs were accommodated. Before bringing them on board, check if they demonstrate a willingness to clarify your needs and map those onto their service offerings.

Know about customer satisfaction directly from customers

You can always request the service provider to provide you with their customer list either former or existing. After receiving the contacts, you can speak to those customers who have a similar industry profile/business needs as yours. Request them for detailed and honest feedback about the provider’s strengths and weaknesses. Find out how satisfied they were with the provider’s service levels and systems management expertise. If everything falls in place as you expected, you can take you decision easily.

Structure out the infrastructure

In order to find out how reliable a provider is, get information about their infrastructure, technology partners, internet providers, data centre etc. Even making an on–site visit can give you confidence in the provider’s management expertise and physical infrastructure. You can also ask details about the provider’s quality assurance methodologies, procedures and processes in order to find how scale able they are.

Hope this post will help you find the right RPO provider for your firm. The other way to find the right one is to get in touch with us. We at Gapeseed, not only fit well into the above mentioned considerations but we keep working on our skills to keep pace with the growing demand. So talk and walk with us before hiring us and we are sure you wouldn’t have to look anywhere else.

For more information on Recruitment Process Outsourcing, feel free to reach us on, info@gapeseedconsulting.com or call +91-9599444639/+91-9599444630

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Hire Gapeseed Consulting for M.I.C.E Services?

Corporate events or workshops or conferences bring together your employees and clients together and for the overall growth of any organization such meets are extremely important. But organizing such events or any of M.I.C.E services at times not only becomes hectic or chaotic, if not implemented well it can end up being the most unorganized one! But when referring to business profits, one of the really important things is cost cutting. With this in mind, it is obvious that any organization will try to organize a business event alone, without the help of any professional event management company. This makes sense, but not completely. You may save on those extra services but this almost always brings in a lower result than what the professional can offer. And that’s where Gapeseed comes for your rescue. We do events not just in Delhi NCR but across the country.

Whether you plan to stage a small workshop or a large scale conference, whether you host an event in India or in foreign countries, we can produce and manage the complete event for you – right from the initial concept planning, venue selection, hospitality to post event analysis. And the commercials will be according to your budget. Our approach is very simple – it is customized.

We are experts. We deliver end-to-end services.

From the smallest group meeting to the largest live event, our team of experts can plan and deliver flawless logistics, organize unique event concepts, design memorable content and deliver high impact production environment. In short we provide end-to-end services competently. A special team of professionals are assigned to take up the task, so you save on time, cost and conversation. We believe that detailed and overall project planning is vital to the success of any event, as it ensures that no details are missed and the time spent on the event is 100% productive and therefore value for money.

The experience which our team has earned over years while working with German corridors or with the Japanese expats – gives us the edge over others in delivering just what you seek. So if you are looking for MICE Services in Delhi or rest of India, we are just a call away.

Better Connections. Better Planning.

This is a huge reason why you should seriously consider Gapeseed. The connections we guarantee ensure that your event will be of a higher quality. And not only our professionals will help you organize the most planned event, they will ensure that you save money – which is one thing you most likely did not know. We have contracts signed with different service providers which mean we will get you better prices when compared with what you would be offered at an individual level. The connections that we have built over the years will help you take advantage of great services at minimum cost. For instance, may be you can get a diner hall with a ready decoration or with required itinerary without having to pay anything extra for it.

Promote your event. Make it a success.

Post organizing an event the next step is to promote it thoroughly. It is much more difficult than you may believe at first glance. The event can be a failure if you are not going to have people who can attend it. We know exactly what has to be done in order to guarantee success for your events due to the fact that we realize how to properly promote them. Be it following up with clients for their acknowledgment or following up with your employees for prompt suggestions or feedback. We do it all. If necessary or if it’s a large scale event, we even go to that extend of promoting it through newspaper ads to online promotional channels. We then actually take care of the entire marketing campaign to promote the events.

Designing and managing bespoke events requires both creativity and expertise. Gapeseed guarantees fresh ideas, a flexible approach and services which are efficient and reliable. Our expertise means we budget efficiently, plan accurately and leave nothing to chance.

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