The Benefits
Investors in People is the UK’s leading people management Standard, adding value to over a third of UK organisations and helping them to achieve some of the following benefits:
- The Investors in People framework can help organisations and their people to meet objectives and adapt to change.
- “Investors in People accredited companies generate higher gross profits per employee. A ‘typical’ organisation that currently does not have Investors in People accreditation could generate an additional £94 per employee in gross profits per annum if they worked with Investors in People” Institute of Employment Studies – ‘Does Investors in People add value to business?’ report
- “Our research finds that adopting Investors in People sets up a chain of impact ending in better financial performance” Cranfield School of Management 2008
- Investors in People can help improve productivity, both now and in the future. 73% of Captains of Industry working with Investors in People recognised organisations believe that the framework leads to increased productivity - Captains of Industry 2007 Survey.
- “Investors in People helped us to drive through our cultural change, strong leadership has been devolved and this has empowered our workforce. Now an integral part of our working processes, The Standard has become a way of engendering our corporate spirit.” Linda Cordingley, Internal Review Co-ordinator at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust
- “Investors in People is a particularly useful framework for businesses undergoing significant or rapid changes.” CBI Education and Skills Survey 2008
- Working with the framework delivers increased employee engagement. Companies recognised with Investors in People have higher levels of trust, co-operation and commitment among employees than their competitors.
- “Organisations that choose to enter the Investors in People process and are successful in gaining accreditation, generate higher gross profits per employee than would a randomly selected organisation.” Institute for Employment Studies 2008
- Organisations can sharpen their competitive edge using Investors in People
- “We view the continuing radical improvement of our school to be intrinsically linked to the Investors in People structure. We consider nothing to be of greater importance than the recruitment, development and support of outstanding colleagues who will continually challenge themselves. We’re now confident that all our colleagues have a clear shared vision for the school and their role in fulfilling our objectives.” John Townsley, Head Teacher, Morley High School
- Investors in People is a publicly recognised quality mark that brings recognition for real achievement, helping you to attract and retain talented people, as well as customers.
- “What we value about Investors in People – and why it is respected by our people – is the process of external assessment where someone who is entirely neutral comes into the organisation, talks in confidence to the staff and evaluates what we are doing. I am now convinced that Investors in People is a way of ensuring that we ‘don’t take our foot off the pedal’ as far as our people systems are concerned.” Pat Enright, HR In-the-Line Adviser for HBSC IT Operations.
