How Can I Reward an Employee Without Demotivating Others? Seeking Your Suggestions!

Dear all,

This is Sanika. One of our employees has done a great job. He completed the project before time and has worked beyond his capacity. I want to appreciate him. However, the issue is that there is no existing system in our company. Therefore, I want to start it from the beginning. Please suggest some techniques that will work as motivation and not be harmful to other employees' motivation.

Thank you.

Why should other employees feel bad if the person is a performer and is given a reward? I understand that he/she must be junior to others in that team. In fact, what you can do is to take feedback from others in the team and share his success so that every other person is aware of his performance. This gives no chance for a biased approach, and others will accept the fact. If it is a monetary reward, then you can explain the criteria on which that particular employee is rated and declare the reward in a meeting so that others will get motivated. If it is a non-monetary reward, you can give a letter of appreciation, an award letter, or a promotion letter (if it is an annual appraisal) for the performance in a meeting where others of that particular team are also called for. In fact, you can also explain how the team and company will grow if everyone strives to perform and excel.

That's a good initiative which you are trying to start of with.
I do not think it should be a harmful one unless it is communicated properly across the orgn.
You can give him/her a monetary gift, dinner coupon with family, coupon to an entertainment place and etc.
As this is a new initiative you can start with the above ideas right away, meanwhile you can also set some guidelines set to get this award.

We do have the "I Appreciate" scheme and the "We Appreciate" scheme. In these schemes, we provide gift vouchers for certain malls where recipients can make purchases and receive discounts based on the value of the voucher.

Regards,
Hansa Vyas

I liked the name "I appreciate" and "We appreciate" for the awards. If you have any more such recognitions happening in your company, why not share them in this forum?

Dear Sanika,

Notice

Dated: 24/01/2011

Kind Attention: All Workers and Staff Members

Subject: Awards and Suggestion Scheme

Based on the constant feedback from all of you, we hereby want to implement a rewards scheme for the Best Worker across categories, for the Best staff, Best Shop, and for the Best Suggestion received towards the improvement of the organization. Towards this, the following rewards will be initiated going forward:

1. Reward for the Best Suggestion received from both workers and staff.
2. Best shop of the Quarter and Year
3. Man of the Quarter (Worker)
4. Employee of the Quarter (Staff)

The evaluation of rewards No. 3 and 4 will be purely on MERIT, and the rewards will be commensurate with the impact of their PERFORMANCE.

CRITERIA FOR THE BEST SHOP: A) CUSTOMER SATISFACTION (Customer Satisfaction Criteria - Customer Schedule Adherence with Delivery on time, Our PPM Level at Customer End, Customer Complaints, etc.) INTERNAL - B) PPM C) Continuous Improvements D) Housekeeping E) Safety (Zero Accidents) F) Inventory.

After every Quarter, deserving Candidates and Shop will be awarded suitably in front of all the employees.

NOTE: Suggestion Forms will be available with HR Dept.

HR Dept.

We have a process called the Performance Recognition Award Europe. Enclosed is the process document and the form for more details.

Regards,