Employee of the Month - Not Me!

for me it is nice to be called employee of the month or employee of the year not because of favoratism but it will help you a lot, it means they appriceiate your good work & lot of workers will follow you because they want also to be in one day recieve those recognation. if you need to work in other company it will be nice also to show them not only of your experience but you did to your company, attending simenar it will be nice & helpful too.

Employees work harder for me when I give raises to people that work the hardest. I have no plans to ever use an employee of the month, as feel it would hurt my business. I know when I give a good job review that the employee is quite happy and even when I give a few ways to improve their performance that the employee will work hard to make changes quickly.

Where I worked Employee of the month was a joke. What they gave the employee of the month is their own parking space for a month. Wow what a show of appreciation. It was a joke around the place about who would be the lucky one each month to get their very own parking space. I have never been employee of the month but nobody thought it was a big deal to be that. I think that each and every employee should be recognized as that. Where I worked all the people worked hard and no one slofed off.

i agree... "..give me a good job review and a pay raise..".. i dont need any other sort of 'recognition' from the company for all the good job that i've done... a hefty pay raise would certainly a great 'morale booster' and motivation for me to work even harder..

At my last job I was employee of the month a lot, but I will say up front, it was from hard work and not kissing up. I was in retail sales of eye glasses, and I busted my butt everyday to get my sales, because sales meant commission and commission could double my pay. Now saying that I have worked places where employee of the month meant who had the brownest nose. I was never employee of the month in those places. I am a hard worker, and do a good job for my employers, but I have never been any good at kissing up, and never can or would lie. I think if an employee works hard and does a good job, they should be recognized for it, but I feel there is room for everyone in that, in most jobs, one person cannot stand out without the rest of the team working together.

I think recognising all employees would be a more positive step than just the one I can see how it would easily cause resentment. I think maybe they should recognise all great employees maybe with a token of their appriciation a bonus etc rather than just yelling it out to everyone that basically their work wasnt good enough this month

NOpe And I would want to Id rather have a r aise when I worked and I would think a raise would be more appropriate

I tend to group employee of the month with being picked for a base ball team. not very good. When I was in the working class I probably was one of the hardest working persons you would ever meet, not because my employer demanded it but because I did. I always believed I had to do my best, at what ever I was doing. I found that employers rather than be pleased with this did nothing but take advantage because they knew I gave my all no mater how little I was paid. It took me a long time to learn to put a price on my work, and stand up for my self. It came as a huge surprise as I had been working for someone for about 5 years, in all that time I was told there never was enough money to give me a raise, yet they managed to go to Mexico for a month twice a year and leave me in charge. I was told I was ungrateful and I told them so it will be easier for you to replace me immediately. They ended up losing the business. No I never was chosen employee of the month.

luckily for us we do not have employee of the months awards or anything like that.it certainly cause a lot of resentment in our workplace,and also a lot more brown nosing would be going on.just tell me every now and then that i am doing a good job and a pay rise,is enough for me.cheers sue

I don't agree with having an employee of the month either and I was once picked as one and I didn't like it. I didn't like that some people resented it and thought they should have been picked and maybe they were right but regardless why take it out on me when I didn't ask for it. We had a bonus system when I was picked and I received a $100 bonus for being picked that month. I don't work for the company anymore and I have heard that they don;t do an employee of the month anymore because it just made too many people unhappy.