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1. Manager personally congratulates employee who does a good
job.

2. Manager writes personal notes about good performance.

3. Organization uses performance as basis for promotion.

4. Manager publicly recognizes employee for good performance.

5. Manager holds morale-building meetings to celebrate successes.

One doesn't have to actually give an award for recognition to hap-
pen. Giving your attention is just as effective. The Hawthorne effect
says that the act of measuring (paying attention) will itself change
behavior.

Nelson and Blanchard (1994) suggest the following low-cost
rewards recognition techniques:

1. Make a photo collage about a successful project that shows the
people who worked on it, its stages of development, and its com-
pletion and presentation.

2. Create a yearbook to be displayed in the lobby that contains each

employee's photograph, along with his or her best achievement of
the year.

3. Establish a place to display memos, posters, photos, and so on,
recognizing progress toward goals and thanking individual
employees for their help.

4. Develop a “Behind the Scenes Award” specifically for those
whose actions are not usually in the limelight.

5. Say thanks to your boss, your peers, and your employees when
they have performed a task well or have done something to help
you.

6. Make a thank-you card by hand.

7. Cover the person's desk with balloons.

8. Bake a batch of chocolate-chip cookies for the person.

9. Make and deliver a fruit basket to the person.

10. Tape a candy bar for the typist in the middle of a long report with

a note saying, “Halfway there.”

11. Give a person a candle with a note saying, “No one holds a candle

to you.”

12. Give a person a heart sticker with a note saying, “Thanks for
caring.”