Building a culture of recognition: Why is this so important?

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 what recognition is and how it can be used to drive positive business outcomes. This is the first guide in our series:

• Building a culture of recognition: Introducing a recognition scheme
• Building a culture of recognition: Designing a recognition scheme
• Building a culture of recognition: Driving engagement with a recognition scheme