Building a culture of recognition: Introducing a recognition scheme

Original authors: Michael Rose and Chris Wilson.

Consultant author: Michael Rose has extensive experience as a reward consultant and is a chartered companion of the CIPD, having been CIPD's vice president, reward.

Overview

This series of Leading practice guides discusses how to set up and run both formal and informal employee recognition schemes as a means to improve employee engagement. Here, we discuss how to align the aims and objectives of a recognition scheme with an organisation's culture, policies and values to ensure the scheme's relevance and success. This is the second guide in our series:

• Building a culture of recognition: Why is this so important?
• Building a culture of recognition: Designing a recognition scheme
• Building a culture of recognition: Driving engagement with a recognition scheme