Employee Recognition


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Maritz Recognition Studiosm increases the power of each recognition moment, so that employee appreciation is both meaningful and consistent. It’s the only comprehensive recognition solution that combines informal gestures of appreciation with the science of formal rewards programs for better business results. This full suite of recognition tools helps you understand how employees want to be recognized, enable managers to better show their appreciation, and motivate higher levels of performance. Maritz Recognition Studio delivers these elements to ensure success:

  • Measurement – Informs design and evaluates progress by measuring frequency and impact of over 50 types of recognition, as well as identifying indicators of effectiveness and manager participation.
  • Assessment – Evaluates manager and employer perceptions of reward and recognition efforts, audits current recognition programs, and examines current technology platforms.
  • Design – Dedicated solution design experts employ best practices in solution design to create compelling and enticing programs.
  • Education – Executive briefings and education help managers understand their role in motivating employees to meet business goals, and teach them to assess their own strengths and weaknesses when providing positive reinforcement.
  • Technology – Uses Maritz’ proprietary technology platforms to provide a user-friendly and reliable employee experience, enable consolidation and alignment, and deliver powerful tracking and reporting tools.
  • Management – Dedicated project managers and technology enable tracking of program use, budget and participant behaviors. Offers content and employee data management plus ongoing feedback.
  • Communication – Generates excitement and buzz with culturally appropriate creative themes, engaging web sites, launch events, and ongoing communications.
  • Rewards – Offers meaningful recognition at individual and enterprise levels, through points-based systems, merchandise and travel incentives, informal recognition, symbolic and cultural rewards.

These eight suites are designed to provide a clear path to creating an effective recognition culture with measurable results.  It features powerful assessment and education tools developed by Dr. Bob Nelson, Ph.D., renowned motivational speaker and author of 1001 Ways to Reward Employees.  The Assessment Suite examines manager and employee perceptions of reward and recognition efforts.  The Education Suite helps managers understand their role in motivating employees to meet business goals, while assessing their own strengths and weaknesses when providing positive reinforcement.

Global Program Management

With direct connections to local cultures around the globe, we can create flexible programs in all your worldwide locations with appropriate objectives, effective rules structures and engaging communications. Through a network of regional partners, we provide:

  • Day-to-day operational support
  • Expertise on how to reward and motivate employees equally around the world
  • An online global catalog for international reward fulfillment

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Maritz Motivation

Marketing. Advertising. Training. It’s easy to invest huge sums in them. But they’re only successful when backed by an inspired workforce. Truthfully, incentive and recognition strategies are often overlooked and under-utilized as levers for accomplishing corporate goals. But they can be integral to success.

Maritz in the News

The Importance of Strategic Recognition

An especially troubling concern for HR executives is how to grow and maintain a high-performing workforce with ever-tightening resources. Companies continue to be cautious about adding resources, creating pressure to do more with fewer people. Organizations that can engage employees in using their full potential to achieve company goals will be the ones that succeed.

Webcast

Heads Hands and Hearts

Getting Managers to Use Recognition in Your Organization

Making Business Personal: Recognition that Works for the Individual Works for the Business

Making Business Personal: Recognition that Works for the Individual Works for the Business

White Paper

Non Cash Rewards are Best for Peformance Improvement

Many companies believe that incentive and recognition plans improve performance. But when companies use cash as the reward for incentive and recognition initiatives, those programs usually end up getting confused with compensation, creating a less effective and less flexible reward system.

The Top Ten Tenets of Enterprise Recognition

Whether the goal is customer centricity, growth or innovation, most organizations today are grappling with how to attract, retain and engage top talent in achieving core business strategies. Maritz believes strongly that the most effective tool to create and sustain a culture that engages and aligns employees behind business imperatives is a performance-based recognition approach we call Enterprise Recognition Management.

The Power of Meaningful Employee Recognition: Why One Size Does Not Fit All

While virtually everyone recognizes the power of positive reinforcement for a job well done, an in-depth study of recognition preferences and practices shows there is much to learn about how to maximize the effectiveness of recognition practices.