As a Manager, How Would You Ensure That Recognition Given to Employees Is Distributed Fairly and Justly?

An effective leader must understand how to manage all characters, and more importantly the manager must utilize avenues that allow room for employees to work, grow, and find answers independently. Elton Mayo found out that the social contacts a worker has at the workplace is very important and that boredom and repetitiveness of tasks lead to reduced motivation. Mayo believed that workers could be motivated by acknowledging their social needs and making them feel important. As a result, employees were given freedom to make decisions on the job and greater attention was paid to informal work groups. Mayo named the model the Hawthorne effect. His model has been judged as placing undue reliance on social contacts at work situations for motivating employees. It is therefore very important that all employees are kept motivated and interested in the jobs they do, a manager must organize group events which acknowledges the achievements of the organization at large. The manager must also implement incentives which are available to the group at large, that is, you can have an employee of the month award. There is also the view that individuals are motivated by the scope of upward mobility, the provision of constant training to all employees will ensure all are equally adequately prepared to assume a promotion as soon a one becomes available. These training and development ensures that employees are not only able to perform designated tasks, but will be a little more marketable if and when they decide to move on to another organization or establish their own businesses; they will have some technical know how. Managers should endeavor to give instant recognition to each and every staff for a job well done, if a staff did well today, then the manager is responsible to say to that staff well done. This is necessary to keep staff members motivated and interested.Essentially, in Organizational Behavior, Robbins and Judge examine recognition programs as motivators, and identify...