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Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 1/26/2012 12:46 PM EST
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Hello, We are looking at implementing an annual Employee Recognition Awards. We plan to use our core values as the categories: · Integrity· Respect· Versatility· Teamwork· Sense of community· Promotion of Work/life balance · Sustainability |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 1/26/2012 3:55 PM EST
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Who is going to be deciding who gets the rewards? Are employees going to be nominating each other? Or is management going to nominate? Honestly that is the biggest hurdle I see with ERAs. The biases that come into play based on who is making the decision. I seen some plans where employees are allowed to nominate themselves. I've also seen plans where immediate outstanding work on the day of the decision overshadows a year of good work by an outstanding employee. Are you going to tie them to performance reviews based on these same categories since you stated this would be done annually? I would think that your job perf review system would already have these defined for differing positions. And if your reviews don't tie back to core values, that is an issue to think about. Because different positions will have some values that are more applicable than others. |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 1/27/2012 5:46 AM EST
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We have done some intensive research on this topic and what drives people incl the recognition the receive. Interesting enough is that money does not seem to play the big role as we would think. It is more about the right leadership and having the feeling to be part of something bigger. Here is the access to the full research pieces: May this is offering some new insights.
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 1/27/2012 11:10 AM EST
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In Response to Re: Employee Recognition Awards: We have done some intensive research on this topic and what drives people incl the recognition the receive. Interesting enough is that money does not seem to play the big role as we would think. It is more about the right leadership and having the feeling to be part of something bigger. Here is the access to the full research pieces: http://www.kellyocg.com/Knowledge/Kelly_Global_Workforce_Index/Drivers_of_Career_Choice_and_Career_Progression http://www.kellyocg.com/Knowledge/Kelly_Global_Workforce_Index/Effective_Employers/ May this is offering some new insights. Posted by MichaelKirsten Michael-Reports are interesting but not on point. The question is what are the criteria used for employee recognition awards. The Kelly white paper discusses what impacts the employee's view of the work place and gives the traditional answers that workplace motivation is most effected by the quality of the management and the job content............ |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 1/31/2012 10:37 AM EST
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I am currently in the midst of planning our Awards of Excellence Program. I am conducting some research on promotional strategies that addresses issues on how we bring awareness of potential submissions for the awards nominations. I am conducting a bit of research addressing past issues of increasing nominations and recognizing a multitude of projects that are not always nominated. They have also tended to be overly inclusionary, where anyone who is even remotely linked to a project is recognized even if their contributions were very minimal or peripheral. That means staff see huge groups of people getting awards for a project, that some people contributed very little to. Also the lack of nominations for regional employees or our clients.Would you be able to provide some promotional strategies that you may have heard for garnering nominations and addressing these issues? |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 2/6/2012 6:53 PM EST
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Our plan was to have the nomination process open to all staff, and a Committee would be formed to pick the winners. We have done in the past where it was just management that selected, and that wasn't seen as positive by employees, so want to get more buy-in. We haven't discussed around tieing it into the performance review process, something to think about. We do have some aspect of our core values that are part of our competency reviews, and those do differ for 3 levels of employees. Thanks for the feedback! |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 4/5/2012 4:22 PM EDT
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We have tried all sorts of reward systems. Originally there was nomination process, for those who went beyond their duties to help others,and management voted on the winner (money tied to winning). Also there were merit awards, only going to one or two people annually, was also another try. Problem was that it was tied to how well your 'nominator' was at writing. We now have an Employee Appreciation Committee who make recommendations for how to spend our small amount of recognition money - i.e., for a picnic, hay ride, hot dog roast. The committee members have been frustrated in that no matter what they decide they can't make everyone happy - I did warn them that this could happen. We also have another system where staff members are nominated by each other for going out of their way to help one another - You've Been Caught. The nominations (for the past month) are put in a drawing and one name is selected for a $25 gift certificate of their choice and a reserved parking spot. I am interested in seeing what other are doing with a very minimal budget - Public Library. Elizabeth Beach |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 4/5/2012 7:39 PM EDT
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In Response to Re: Employee Recognition Awards: We have tried all sorts of reward systems. Originally there was nomination process, for those who went beyond their duties to help others,and management voted on the winner (money tied to winning). Also there were merit awards, only going to one or two people annually, was also another try. Problem was that it was tied to how well your 'nominator' was at writing. We now have an Employee Appreciation Committee who make recommendations for how to spend our small amount of recognition money - i.e., for a picnic, hay ride, hot dog roast. The committee members have been frustrated in that no matter what they decide they can't make everyone happy - I did warn them that this could happen. We also have another system where staff members are nominated by each other for going out of their way to help one another - You've Been Caught . The nominations (for the past month) are put in a drawing and one name is selected for a $25 gift certificate of their choice and a reserved parking spot. I am interested in seeing what other are doing with a very minimal budget - Public Library. Elizabeth Beach Posted by ebeach Don't mean to be a grinch but make sure that the $25 is added to the employee's gross income each time it is awarded. |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 5/2/2012 2:03 PM EDT
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At our Agency, publicly funded, our annual employee recognition has multiple parts. Service awards are presented by the Executive Director and at least one of the Board of Commissioners. The Safety Team is recognized for their contribution to the Agency and this year they had safety poster/slogan content and the winners were announced (blind voting by the Safety Team). The third part is based on the theme for the recognition. This year’s theme was “A Day With the (Insert Agency/company name) Stars”. We, the HR Department” looked at who received awards or who were recognized for going above and beyond their job, to be recognized with a movie poster created about the event/award. The best reaction was to the poster for a department that recycled used motor oil to heat their building. We made a poster of their manager as “Jed Clampett” from the Beverly Hillbillies. This was a huge hit. Using the movie poster format, we were able to recognize others from the department who were involved in the project. No money or gift was involved.All staff wanted was the posters and PowerPoint presentation made at the event.Everything is done by the HR Department. We work hard to make sure every department is represented in the presentation/recognition. It is not about money or gifts. It is the sincere recognition of a job well done.Below are links to the sites we used to make the posters.Face in hole – any face can be put into pictures of movie posters or TV shows http://www.faceinhole.com/us/scenarios/1/film--tv/most-created/today/1/ Movie Posters – create movie posters with your own pictures and add creditshttp://bighugelabs.com/poster.php |
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Re: Employee Recognition Awards
posted at 5/3/2012 12:44 PM EDT
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The difficulty with the recognition rewards stems from the fundamental problem with the values: It should go without saying that the company and everyone in it has integrity, and by its nature, integrity is not a matter of degree. You can't be a little honest or very honest. You're honest or you're not. Does one employee have an outstanding amount of integrity as compared to others? What does that say about the company? And regarding community: I spent eight years HR/Internal Communications trying to foster a sense of community, trying to persuade employees that they were part of a larger "we." There were recognition awards, CEO intranet chats, personal commendation letters from the CEO (which I wrote). The company did everything imaginable to get employees to feel loyal to it, except the one thing that would work -- which would be for the company to extend its loyalty to employees. After one mass layoff, the CEO said to the press, "We've eliminated the bloat at corporate headquarters." Who's "we"? Who's "the bloat"? The truth will out, and no recognition awards program can ever change it. |
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