What is the best way to invest in your employees?

Reading your comments and what i can see is : Retain / Recognition / Rewards. Based on my experience, nothing has been done yet in Vietnam regarding the employees Recognition & Rewards, i mean a real Retaining Plan / Benefits Plan/ Compensation Plan...I am sure that most of YOU never been rewarded because they are loyal to a company, or they have achieved more than the basic incentive plan or they have done a great team work or ....there are thousands of situation you can reward employees and make sure the performance is recognized.
It can be a monetary or non monetary rewards but at least a "Thank you" is what all human being are expected for doing a task.

Companies should understand that Employees are their key success factor. And also employees should understand that the company is investing on them, mean ROI. I would recommend that Executive should open the discussion with BOD, then BOD should do the same with the BOM , then BOM should do it also with their colleagues etc etc...A pyramidal "open discussion" should be the best way to understand employees needs & expectations.

As a Director / Manager : what my employees need to achieve more?

As an Employee : what can i provide to the company to be more effective?

That is why we are working on a program called Power2Motivate (www.power2motivate.com), which helps companies to implement a Recognition & Reward plan towards their employees.