subject: Motivation through Appreciation [print this page] Appreciation is what greases performanceAppreciation is what greases performance. An organization is only as good as its assets and resources. A transparent rewards and recognition system can benefit the masses working towards the common organizational goal. Executives, operational chiefs and personnel managers must ensure that their systems of rewards and recognition are carefully aligned with overall strategic and operational goals. Rewards and recognition systems misaligned with corporate objectives can result in behavior that is not anticipated or desired by management. These unanticipated actions may be personally beneficial to front-line sales reps, manufacturing floor managers or even senior executives, yet they move the company away from its overall goals or cause systemic harm.
In addition to measuring the progress of employee performance toward corporate goals, well-defined performance measurement systems help gauge employee reception, understanding and buy-in for reward systems. This critical feedback can help managers make adjustments necessary to drive improvements and avoid the unanticipated behaviors and actions that negatively impact corporate goals.
Organizations who want to upgrade their rewards and recognition factor in their human resources performance management, can now seek answers to their questions in benchmark reports compiled by a few good benchmarking organizations who have conducted extensive research in several areas of incentives and performance measurement.
Organizations seeking to identify and achieve optimal performance, can now gain insights through quantitative research that highlight organizational goals and qualitative research that enables executives to develop a road map to achieve these performance targets.
Right from achieving excellence in university recruitment to developing a high performance team and maintaining employee productivity, these reports look to instill company values or to improve financial performance among the resources. However, these reports will yield little result is not implemented to the dollar.
The reports are compiled as a result of thorough industry research and incorporation of best practices to align incentives with strategic and operational goals. To help achieve organizational goals, managers and leaders could derive and implement the learning described in the benchmark reports.
