Suggestion box

Hi,

We are a US-based organisation and have an office in the UK and some employees in a few countries of Europe. The management team in EMEA/Europe wants to set up a physical suggestions box in the UK office which has the largest population to have an employee voice on an on-going basis. I feel suggestion boxes are a thing of past and they end up being a complaints box. 

Any suggestions for alternatives?

Thanks

Shweta

  • I have recently used DiBoks and launched a suggestion scheme to staff. Staff has the option to give their name or keep their suggestion anonymous. As they have the opportunity to say their opinions in our staff survey and pulse survey checks, the suggestion box has been created as an opportunity for staff to submit their ideas on a given topic rather then submitting complaints. They have the deadline by 1st August to submit their ideas. A committee will look at the ideas and select the best ones.
    I hope that helps.
  • We hold a quarterly leadership team and staff meeting (we have nearly 300 staff across three sites with around 30 staff based at home). We inform staff what is going on in the organisation, for example we presented a draft People/HR Strategy at one meeting to show staff what we were thinking and encourage them to feed into the strategy. At the meeting staff are encouraged to ask questions of the leadership team member who is present, make comments and suggestions. We are unionised, so we meet regularly with the union to discuss a range of issues. We encourage two-way communication through the annual PDR and 121 meetings with managers (mixed success with this as some managers escalate everything up, some don't hold regular 121 meetings and some don't escalate anything up - to be addressed through management development and holding managers accountable).