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Summary: Mediocre
Review: Lots of ho-hum ideas about motivating employees. I don't think it's worth the money or time.
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Summary: Great ideas for non-profits with a small budget.
Review: Non-profits and government offices typically lack funds to help recognize employees who do more than is expected. This book gives some low and no-cost ideas that help boost morale and let staff know they are appreciated.
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Summary: Everybody needs to be appreciated!
Review: Now that 1001 Ways to Reward Employees has passed over one million copies sold, I wanted to say a few words about why I wrote it!The most validated principle we know about managing people and performance is "You get what you reward!" Although this is a common sense observation, it is far from common practice in most organizations today. Look around you and you'll find this to be true: At your next team meeting do you start on time or wait for those that are late (thereby rewarding tardiness and punishing those that are on time)? When you finish a project are you "rewarded" with two additional projects (and the person who misses his deadline gets an additional 30-day extension! ) Are the majority of rewards in your organization given out for just showing up to work (health care benefits, standard raises, paid holidays and vacation, picnics and parties, birthday cards, anniversary awards, turkeys at Christmas, etc) or for specific individual or group performance that has occurred? With this book I wanted to make an overwhelming case that the power of positive reinforcement really does work to improve performance and increase desired behavior and it can work for you regardless of your circumstances. Instead of making the case with theory and research (which is extensive) I wanted to lead with the power of example and make the case with real-life practices from actual managers in existing organizations. Sort of a "best practices" for individual managers from other successful managers today. This book has over 2300 examples (yes, the title is misnumbered!) in 27 categories from no-cost recognition to low-cost activities to more formal award programs and point systems. Better yet is the fact that the things that tend to be most meaningful and motivating to today's employees are those things that, ironically, have little or no cost! There may be lots of reasons why you can't implement some of the ideas presented in this book, but it is next to impossible to not find something that WILL WORK for you regardless of your constraints: money, time, organization size, prevailing management philosphy, etc. And once you find something that works, you can expand, build and improve upon it, ultimately making rewards and recognition a vital part of your organization's culture, which will impact your ability to attract and retain employees you need and to get the best from them in the process. The workplace is rapidly changing. You can no longer get the best from your employees by lighting a fire beneath them... you need to find a way to light a fire within them. 1001 Ways to Reward Employees can help you find the match to ignite your employees' passion and performance.
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Summary: Good book, but information is dated
Review: This book is badly in need of revision. Many of the ideas mentioned in the book either are no longer in use due to their dollar cost, or belong to companies which blew up (or were bought out) in the dot-com bust and early 21st-century economic collapse. As an example, Tandem Computers - and all of the six things attributed to it - no longer exist. Not only has HP (which bought out Compaq, which had acquired Tandem) stamped out those behaviours (every last one of them!), but it has eliminated or drastically scaled back all of the rewards attributed to it in this book. Fun is out if it costs any money, and that's probably pretty common everywhere.
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Summary: Definitely a useful tool for any business.
Review: This book is used by almost all the managers and supervisors in our company. The book is housed in our Marketing Dept, and one has to get on a list to borrow it, so some of us have purchased our own copy at OUR OWN expense. We have used it time and time again as a bible for rewarding our staff. Great job! Thanks!
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Summary: Use this book to foster innovative thinking
Review: This paperback is an easy reference book for managers considering ways to reward (read: acknowledge excellence) among employees. There is also some suggestion of programs designed to reward longevity (just being there). Good managers are good leaders with vision and drive. Using this book as a tool, a manager might provide a team with the seeds for some creative thinking. However, if your organization is not part of a bigger corporate structure, many of the ideas are too expensive or too large to personally manage. The result is a bit discouraging as you flip pages thinking "good idea...but..." There are great quotes in shaded areas along the edges of each chapter, and the general ideas are organized under headings such as Employee/Company Anniversary, or Safety. Finding information is easy thanks to the author, Bob Nelson. I've let my managers read and react to the book, and I used it in a workshop on rewarding employees. This is a fine resource, an affordable book to stimulate discussion, but not likely the sole solution to your issues. Amazon features a wide selection of books on the topic of employee reward and recognition, this is a mid-range book in that spectrum of resources. It is an effective argument against simply providing cash incentives and managers seeking to win that debate are greatly served by this book.
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Summary: WASTE OF TIME
Review: Useful for anybody without a brain or people management skill
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Summary: This is a book for morons
Review: very sad book attempting to manipulate employees with the most pathetic ploys.
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