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Leadership Symposium April 17, 2012

Great Place To Work Best Practices

Employee Recognition

Top 5 Aspects of Job Satisfaction

• Job security (63%)

• Opportunities to use skills/abilities (62%)

• Financial stability of organization, relationship with immediate supervisor (tie at 55%)

• Compensation/pay (54%)

• Benefits, the work itself and communication between employee and sr. management (53% each)

2011 Society of Human Resources Management Study

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Journey to Becoming a Great Place to Work

• Great Place To Work• Dimension of Respect includes thanking

employees, taking an interest in employees as individuals and involving employees in decisions that impact their work

• Dimension of Fairness includes all staff are full members of the team and all have opportunities for special recognition

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Employee Recognition

• Webster defines recognition as •Acknowledgment

•Special notice or attention

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Recognition at Iowa Health Des Moines

• Always Committed to Excellence (ACE) Award• Employees who go above and beyond their jobs

in demonstrating our CORE values

• Nominated by other IHDM employees

• Initial Human Resources review

• Review and final approval by Senior Team

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Always Committed to Excellence

• Quarterly ceremony• Senior Team emcee

• Nominator reads the story

• Recipient has the opportunity to speak

• Gift for each recipient

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Always Committed to Excellence

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ACE Recipients

• Lance Beresford, COTA

Iowa Lutheran Outpatient Therapy • Nominated by a peer

• Created a device to assist one of the patients with support to enable her to continue playing her violin

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• Ann Ungs, Physical Therapist

Blank Children’s Hospital Pediatric

Therapy • Nominated by a peer, who is the mother of a child

in the Dance Without Limits program

• Co-nominated with Monika Peltz, Dance Instructor

• Collaborated to use assistive devices to enable children with disabilities to participate in dance class

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Questions?

Please feel free to contact me:

Jane A. Coy, SPHR

Employee Relations Manager

Iowa Health Des Moines

(515) 241-8224

coyja@ihs.org

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