Productivity Awards

Productivity award is a way to motivate employees and I noticed many aiming to get awards now and then. People used to apply and try to get as many Productivity awards as possible as they find their way into the HR records. I looked stupid as I never applied and the awards are given to those only who project themselves/ apply for the award.

As a Manager, I realized, even if you are not interested, you need to project your colleagues as innovative ones. Hence, even if only one person does the good work, we add two or three names to that to make it appear as a team work!

As a challenge I started filing for Productivity awards and covered many of my colleagues so that they can get benefited too! I received around 14 and then stopped applying.

I did not enjoy doing just for the sake of doing ....and I stopped applying for awards ! There shall be a some other way for the Management to identify the hard workers and recognize their efforts, instead of asking them to project themselves.