Employee recognition is very important as it motivates a person to work, most companies under-perform as the employees aren’t appreciated for what they do (Achievement awards group, 2012). Even if it’s a small task, just a thank you would make them do even more. |Employee recognition has a combined relationship with the humans’ emotions. Everything an employee does depends on their daily emotions. Therefore, keeping them appreciated and recognised will help them do a better job than the previous day (CommLab India, 2011). It also builds self-confidence and increases their capabilities. There are many ways of recognising. Eg: award ceremonies, public announcements, firm wide emails, monetary and non-monetary recognition. Therefore, employers have various ways to choose to recognise an employee based on their performance. Recognition isn’t limited and it all depends on the achievement and performance.
Performance appraisals brings both employers and employees together and gives them both a opportunity to understand them and voice out their opinions This would result in better performance or better improvement based on the appraisal. Setting up a goal and to work towards it is also very important. Giving the less engaged people more attention, necessary training and development will help them feel they are taken care of. In general all employees should be given necessary training from time to time so they could work towards the best and keep them more engaged in their work (Lytle (2019).
Team work plays a major role as it supports one another keeps the spirit going. Without team work, there’s no success (Mickan, Rodger, 2000). All employees should be engaged and have a good relationship within the team for them to have the team work. To bring in that bond, getting all employees in some sort of get together from time to time will help. Every employee will have different level of competency and talent which could be shared when they work as a team. Knowledge is shared and innovation is introduced. Through innovation new ideas are introduced to improve the company’s process (Sundaray (2011). Every innovative idea been introduced should be rewarded so employees will get the interest of introducing better ideas. In summary, with proper employee engagement and recognition, a company will last longer with a higher success rate.
List of reference
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