Employee Recognition. Rewarding your employees for a job well-done is essential to employee engagement. As an employer, you are likely trying to find the best way to connect with your employees, thank them for the work they do, and retain great workers. We know that providing specific feedback and helpful recognition isn't always easy, but it can help you create a workplace where everyone is delighted to work.
One of the most common ways that companies reward employees is by using a nomination program. With only limited time and budget to run a program, nominations are a popular way to recognize and reward team members.
Nomination programs are an excellent first step, but they have a lot of issues that you might not be aware of at first glance. Are employee of the month awards really a good idea? Let's take a more in-depth look at nomination programs and why they likely aren't the best way to motivate and incentivize employees. Nomination programs typically allow a group of individuals to nominate an employee or coworker for their contributions or good attitude at a regular interval, usually monthly or annually.
Employees get this recognition by being nominated by colleagues or higher-ups. At Bonusly, we get a lot of questions about using our program to nominate one person to receive all the points for the month. Nomination programs are not a good way to recognize your employees.
If your program depends on nominations that are submitted or approved by managers, bias is inherent. Some managers will prioritize recognition more than others, which consequently leaves some employees out of the running. Managers, higher-level employees, and more sociable, outgoing employees are more likely to win these nomination-based awards. Which is great! But we know that there are many different working styles that should be recognized. This leaves behind the customer support teams and operations folks who help make it all possible, creating a culture of inequity and exclusion.
You want your employees to rally around the same cultural values that your company mission and vision are tied to. Reinforcing desired behaviors strengthens organizational culture by highlighting actions consistent with core values. In order to feel like part of the community and culture, employees need to see how their work fits together, and that they each have an important role to play.
Nomination programs may be the default way that companies think about employee motivation and recognition, but just because it's traditional doesn't mean it's the best way. And if an employee never receives a nomination, they may end up feeling disengaged with their work and unmotivated to go above and beyond for your company, since they're never recognized for their efforts. Context is vital when it comes to building a company culture. Nomination programs force employees to nominate one individual instead of all the team members that go above and beyond.
As a company, you want to understand the details, because details allow you to reward all the employees who make your company great. Think about it. What do you need to do to implement a nomination program each month? Here are some of the necessary steps that might be involved:. All of these steps are time-consuming for you and your employees. Many nomination programs fall flat because of the time it takes to run them. An employee of the month programs needs to run every month to be effective, which can cause even more issues when your business is dealing with a busy season.
Even one slip-up or skipped month can undermine the program and result in a lack of nominations going forward! Nomination programs are known to many employees for being a subjective popularity contest.
If you want your program to go above that moniker, you need to do a lot of work to make it as objective as possible. Creating an objective employee of the month program can be difficult, especially if multiple people are eligible to win in a single month. How will you decide who wins overall? What if you keep getting the same winners? What your nomination program just becomes a cycle of recognizing the same people?
How do you decide if one nomination is better than another? The standards you set will require that your employees step in from time-to-time. How will you control any biases your team might have? These are a lot of questions, but these questions are ones that your employees are thinking about, too. You could create separate employee of the month awards for managers and employees, but this might also cause issues because there are typically fewer managers, so they'll be recognized more often than regular employees.
All of these factors are bound to make some of your employees feel left out. It might make them feel like your company has favorites, and that they aren't one of them.
Your employees notice who is more likely to get nominated, and this disengages them from doing their best work. Blatant favoritism of one star employee can lower the morale of all other employees, as other good employees will likely be aware that their peer is enjoying extra perks while their own hard work goes unnoticed and unrewarded.
Organizational and cognitive studies show us that the best and most impactful recognition is timely, frequent, specific, inclusive, and values-based.
Your employees likely want frequent feedback , and nomination programs can't give them that. Your employees might be likely to quit or become disengaged before you provide positive feedback through an employee nomination program. As we discussed earlier, nomination programs do a poor job of reinforcing positive behaviors. If you want to create a positive experience for your employees, you should aim to give recognition as soon as possible to produce a clear connection to positive behavior.
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