Think of a time when someone acknowledged you for your good work or a pat on your shoulder you received from your boss for a task that you successfully completed. Didn’t these words of appreciation feel like they made your day? Like you won a race? Didn’t you feel the drive to do better or explore more of what you can be great at? Didn’t that appreciation help in making your extra working hours easy?
Every employee needs his or her work to be appreciated by their employer as well as their peers in order to be motivated to do better and more work. This helps in engagement of the employee into his/her work. In order to keep the employee have a sense of engagement, he/she has to be provided with feedback that would result in yielding better productivity out of them constantly. Employee Recognition is defined by showing your employees that their hard work is being noticed.
According to the prominent Maslow’s Need Theory, the basic needs of humans are met with food, water and safety. Then, they shift their focus towards their emotional needs. Among those needs, “belongingness” and “self esteem” are the primary essentials of every individual which is also required at the workplace. Employee Recognition targets both these needs. Recognition is more than conveying “nice to have you” -type statements. It is more like making an emotional difference by having a more impactful approach on the employees.
“The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can be closed with a shout of recognition.” ― Timothy Findley, The Wars
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