Employee Recognition Goes Beyond Word
In this day and age most employers will not argue that good employees are hard to find. It’s difficult enough to find someone who wants to work; who has a passion for what they do and a desire to achieve success. Then of course to find someone who is skilled in what they do and has the ability to hit the ground running is another thing entirely. Unfortunately it also seems that when those people are identified and they are trained and integrated into the workforce they leave sooner expected. Turnover continues to be high and for companies that desire to build a family of employees who stay with the company for the long haul this can be enormously frustrating. What causes such high turnover? There are a number of different factors. Job dissatisfaction, unhappiness with salary, desire to move on to another area to a higher position; the list goes on and on. But one thing that employers can do to make sure that they are doing right by their employees is to make sure that they are properly recognizing their work. What does this mean? Well what we are finding is that it means more than words and a pat on the back.
It is part of human nature to want to be recognized; for our hard work to be seen and validated. An employee recognition program allows employers to do more than just acknowledge their employees through their words; it allows them to acknowledge them through action. An employee rewards program matches achievement with different tiers of incentive prizes that employees can earn. Companies of all sizes, across all industries are finding the benefits in an employee recognition program - of being able to show their employees that their work is seen and honoring them for that work through a selection of prizes that can range from electronics to full blown vacations.
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