23.07.07 by Glenn Malkin
The following item was culled from the CIPD website:
“South Tyneside Council has used an unusual recognition tactic by giving a pair of socks to employees who “knock their socks off” with outstanding performance. The move was cited as an example of excellent management in a study by the Improvement and Development Agency for local government.”
What is your experience of this type of symbolic reward? Does it work, and if so, why?
1 comment
about 1 year ago, Kenny Quinn said:
Somehow I can't hear knock your socks off in a Geordie accent!
I wonder what the 'recognition tactic' would have been if they had been asked to:-
Knock their pan in
Use some elbow grease
Get their noses to the grindstone
Make their mark
Keep their eye on the wheel
Give their all
Go the extra mile
or God forbid, Work their wotsits off!
Seriously though - I'm sure a handshake from the Chief Executive or a bottle of Nookie Brown would have been more effective.
One of the hardest tasks of leadership is understanding that you are not what you are, but what you're perceived to be by others.