10/11/2008 - www.jobsnewswire.com

Rewarding employees and making them feel like a valued member of the team can help companies to retain their staff during the credit crunch, it has been suggested.

Director of European operations at Michael C Fina Sheila Sheldon believes that motivating staff is essential at a time when there are many redundancies and a great deal of change for some businesses.

She said the reward could be "a thank you letter, a certificate or a small gift, it doesn't matter" as long as it is "something that makes [the employee] think gosh, they really do care".

Employers were also reminded that they do not "need to throw shedloads of money" at reward schemes as "it's more to do with the fact that you are recognising something and making someone feel valued".

The What Workers Want survey published by the Trades Union Congress revealed that around six million workers are not satisfied with their job.