by Chuck Csizmar - Aug 17, 2010
Everywhere you look these days companies are striving to find ways of doing more with less; jobs are eliminated and the survivors have to work harder, employee reward budgets are trimmed to the bone or frozen, and the concept of pay-for-performance itself is coming under challenge. Across the country you can hear the constant litany of cut, cut, cut.Employee morale has plunged off a cliff.
However there is one reward strategy you can employ that doesn't involve following the popular drumbeat of negative messages and takeaways. Already other functional departments (i.e., Marketing, Engineering, Advertising) have taken a different tact from that "me too" philosophy.