Rewarding & Recognizing Employees
Want employees to stay at UAB? Help retain our most valuable asset — people – with regular rewards and recognition of employee contributions.
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Ways to Reward
Reward and recognize employees in the following ways:
- Understand what motivates each individual
- Reward according to desired form of recognition
- Say thank you
- Provide more responsibility
- Identify employee strengths
- Assign work according to strengths
- Use development as a reward (see Tools & Skills for suggestions)
- Nominate an Employee for an Award
- UAB Shared Values in Action: The UAB VIP Award is presented quarterly to three employees whose work has exemplified and embodied one or more of the values that propel our institution.
- Service Awards: An official way to honor an employee (faculty or staff) who has made a significant career commitment to the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
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Tools & Skills
Tools for Rewarding & Recognizing
- Want to prevent good employees from walking out of the door? Stay Interview Guide
- Reward a high performer with these developmental suggestions.
Skills for Rewarding & Recognizing
- LinkedIn Learning: Rewarding Your Employees
- Related UAB Policies & Procedures