Employers must align their recognition schemes with their business priorities, said Neal Blackshire, reward manager at McDonald’s Restaurants in an interview with Clare Bettelley, associate editor at Employee Benefits.
He said: ”Make sure it’s simple, clear and easy to understand what someone might get recognised for and what they will receive.”
He also advised employers not to downplay the importance of sharing employee recognition moments.
“With any recognition scheme, it is important that you get the recognition to the individual right. But for everybody else who doesn’t get the recognition, it is very important that they can see who has been recognised.
Sign up to our newsletters
Receive news and guidance on a range of HR issues direct to your inbox
“We’re planning to do that via our employee portal, which gives us the ability to publicise those winners much more effectively.”
Read more of the Employee Benefits/Lorica 100 Club Thinktank debate
- Neal Blackshire was named ‘Benefits professional of the year’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2014. McDonald’s Restaurants won the award for ‘Best pensions auto-enrolment strategy – large employer’ at the awards, which were held on 27 June in London.
But it is also vital to udnerstand that some employees do not want their recognition shared -they shun any form of publicity and posting on an employee portal would be a huge negative event for them
If its the right neal blackshire who worked as an assistant manager under Jamie the store manager then am afraid to say he was a very unfair and a cheating person.
Neal Blackshire cheated me in promising to make me a manager. He never pledged that once i came from my break.
very bad practise from a macdonalds manager.
i would love and it would be a pleasure go meet him him face to face his superiors and tell them them truth of this man.