Making Creative Use of Employee Recognition Programs
By Don Jacobson (from Gov Leaders.org)
Every employee has a need for praise and recognition, and the more often they get it the better. Supervisors are in the best position to give recognition, but few do it often enough--or creatively enough.
Government agency award programs seem to do little to drive the performance of public sector employees. In OPM's 2002 Federal Human Capital Survey, only 30 percent of all respondents agreed with the statement that "Our organization's awards program provides me with an incentive to do my best." (Forty-five percent actually disagreed with the statement.) Only 38 percent felt that "Creativity and innovation are rewarded."
Why are public sector employees dissatisfied with their agencies' awards programs? And what can managers do to improve the effectiveness of these programs? These are two of the issues we shall attempt to address here. To read the rest of this article, click here!
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