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Summary: Here are a few ideas from the book.
Review: 1) At Busch Gardens-Tampa, employees who offer exceptional service to guests receive a "scratch-off" card. These cards are issued on the spot by the management staff and can be redeemed for a variety of rewards.
2) Create a Hall of Fame wall with photos of outstanding employees.
3) Find out the person's hobby and give an appropriate gift.
4) Have a personalized cartoon made for an employee award. Comic Arts of Wilton, CT, can include the recipient's name, a team pennant, a sports picture and a customized caption in a cartoon.
5) Call an employee into your office just to thank him or her. Don't discuss any other issue.
6) Give each employee one rose for each year of employment on the anniversary of his or her hiring.
7) Conduct an Out-to-Dinner program for employees. Award dinners for two for doing something special, like coming in on a day off or working through a break.
8) Give the person a three-day weekend.
9) Name a continuing recognition award after an outstanding employee.
10) When you hear a positive remark about an individual, repeat it to that person as soon as possible. Seek out the person if necessary. If you can't meet, leave an electronic-mail or voice-mail message.
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Summary: Excellent meaningful ideas for any sized employer
Review: A must have for any managers toolbox. As more and more companies are forced to stretch their dollars more thinly - these ideas will provide millions of dollars worth of motivation for sometimes only 5 minutes of time.
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Summary: Important help for rewarding employees in times of cutbacks
Review: A number of firms right now are experiencing a slowdown of growth because of the general economic climate. While this may not last long, it becomes vital to find ways to motivate employees, especially if a firm is not hiring or cannot spend much on extras and must keep current employees productive and happy. The good thing about "1001 Ways to Reward Employees" is that not all the ways require big expenditures. The book gives ways to match rewards to your budget. More importantly, it also lists how to match the reward to the type of employee. The book lists best practices from organizations as diverse as BankBoston, Disney and the Federal Government. Praise and thank-you's are some of the rewards discussed. These come from findings of surveys where many employees say they would really just like recognition and gratitude for special efforts. There is a useful section giving sources for specialty rewards, firms that can arrange reward activities, travel, and companies and associations that specialize in rewards and incentives. All in all, a useful book and one that could help any manager get more productivity and boost morale while holding down costs.
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Summary: A "MUST-HAVE" BOOK FOR EVERY EMPLOYER!
Review: As a teacher and counsellor in business management, I have found many employers to be lacking in expertise, when it comes to human resource issues. Any successful employer knows that you invest in employees; you cut back on other expenditures. Successful entrepreneurs have learned that treating an employee with respect and dignity, providing a positive work environment, paying what the employee is worth and providing incentives and benefits will increase productivity and enhance profits. If this does not produce results, perhaps you have hired the wrong employee for the job. An employee wants to feel a part of the business, as if he/she is working with you, not for you.. MINIMUM WAGE IS NOT AN INCENTIVE OR A REWARD FOR QUALITY WORK, DEDICATION AND LOYALTY! After all, it is your employees who are going to help you achieve a profit. This is a fantastic book and one employers, particularly those with few human resource skills, should read. Money is not always the answer when it comes to rewarding quality work. This book is well-written and contains some very worthwhile points and suggestions on both motivating and rewarding your employees.
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Summary: A "MUST-HAVE" BOOK FOR EVERY EMPLOYER!
Review: As a teacher and counsellor in business management, I have found many employers to be lacking in expertise, when it comes to human resource issues. Any successful employer knows that you invest in employees; you cut back on other expenditures. Successful entrepreneurs have learned that treating an employee with respect and dignity, providing a positive work environment, paying what the employee is worth and providing incentives and benefits will increase productivity and enhance profits. If this does not produce results, perhaps you have hired the wrong employee for the job. An employee wants to feel a part of the business, as if he/she is working with you, not for you.. MINIMUM WAGE IS NOT AN INCENTIVE OR A REWARD FOR QUALITY WORK, DEDICATION AND LOYALTY! After all, it is your employees who are going to help you achieve a profit. This is a fantastic book and one employers, particularly those with few human resource skills, should read. Money is not always the answer when it comes to rewarding quality work. This book is well-written and contains some very worthwhile points and suggestions on both motivating and rewarding your employees.
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Summary: Lot's of ideas, but be wary of the focus
Review: As the title implies, the book contains a large number of ideas. Some will work in some organizations, while others might work elsewhere. As often happens when one tries to generate ideas in abundance, not all will be useful. But being able to puruse the overall landscape of opportunity has been helpful. My concern, however, is the focus that this book places on recognition, as opposed to results. For a deeper treatment of human performance in the workplace, I suggest people also read RESPONSIBLE MANAGERS GET RESULTS: HOW THE BEST FIND SOLUTIONS, NOT EXCUSES, by Gerald Faust and co-authors. This provides a balance to the overall perspective of the leader. Because after all, the main purpose for rewarding employees is to achieve responsible performance that leads to organizational, bottom-line results.
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Summary: The Benchmark In Understanding Rewards
Review: Bob Nelson and Ken Blanchard have established the benchmark in reference works for understanding the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and how to use them. This is a 'must have' resource for managers charged with optimizing employee performance. And, if you're inclination, whenever there's a problem, is to throw money at it, think again. You're probably wasting resources and missing the mark. This work will get you to realize there are other ways to recognize employees who are achieving desired outcomes and more ways to incent those who are needing encouragement.
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Summary: Employee Rewarding Ideas for Every Budget
Review: BOOK REVIEW 1001 WAYS TO REWARD EMPLOYEES by Bob Nelson Workman Publishing Company, NY, NY Whether you manage a department, oversee a division, lead a company, or run a family business with just one employee, there is an essential principle to follow that is too often overlooked: What most motivates the people who work for you is recognition. The problem for too many of us, however, is that we don't have "employee recognition" as a line item in our budgets. In response to that all-too-common problem, Bob Nelson, author of 1001 Ways To Reward Employees, polled the American business community asking for low-cost ideas, proven strategies, achievement awards, contests, time off, case studies, and praise ideas. And the business community came through for him-and for us. This paperback has 225 pages of great ideas that leaders in the business community use to reward their hard-working employees-from keeping a "treasure chest" brimming with gifts so supervisors can reward employees on the spot (Chevron) to cab fare for workers who have to stay late (Time, Inc.) to pocket protectors, magnetic calendars and notepads imprinted with the slogan "Got an idea? Write it down!" to encourage employee participation in a suggestion program (John Deere). Whether you have a large recognition budget, a small budget, or no budget at all, you will find informal and formal ideas, expensive and cost-free ideas-something that will fit your need to let employees know how much you appreciate their efforts. Ken Blanchard, who wrote the forward, noted, "With 1001 Ways to Reward Employees, praising, recognizing and rewarding employees just became a little easier. You can now provide the rewards and recognition that people in your life so richly deserve...This is one book that should be on every manager's desk!" I have taught first-time manager classes over the past five years, and this is one of the concepts and tools our new managers appreciate the most. I've used many of the ideas myself. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: The Best Book for rewrading Employees
Review: Employees are the assets of a company. If you want to earn more profit and success, employees are the tools for helping you. Thus, treating them in the best way is a must for you to success. Thus, this book can give you many ideas. In the book, it provides many monetary and non-monetary rewards methods, such as recognition and profit incentivs. Besides, it provides many real examples for each method in order to make the theory more easy to understand! Besides, the book is very interest because it let me to know that even give a flower or a greeting card to your staff can also improve thier relationship and enhance their morale. After i read this book, i use it in my business. It makes me suprise that it really improve human relationship and my staff are very happy when i encourage them by few words or some low-price souvenirs. All in all, i think every employer should read this book because it can gives you many ideas to reward your staff.
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Summary: This made me want to go to work so I could apply the lessons
Review: Even though Bob Nelson wote this for business-oriented workplaces, it can apply to anyone in a supervisory/ team-oriented situation. Even as the advisor of a high school student organization, I found the suggestions and examples very encouraging at thinking of ways to increase member satisfaction. I used a few suggestions as soon as I could, and I saw our membership increase 20% after implementing the first idea. Any organization would benefit from what is offered here or in Nelson's followup books, such as 1001 Ways to Energize Employees. I have given this book as a gift to others in leadership positions, and have been on the receiving end of some of the concepts since one of the recipients was the principal of my school. If you had only the time and money for three books to help an organization improve, this should be one, and teambuilding books like the Indoor/ Outdoor Teambuilding Manual should be among them.
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