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A reported 37% of organizations also utilize non-financial recognition programs, which tend to be less effective than other reward programs.

Organizational Performance Employee Compensation Employee Recognition Total Rewards Survey Results Employers are increasing their efforts to innovate and are relying on financial and non-financial rewards to spur new ideas and ways of doing business.

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For WorldatWork Members Behavioral Performance Assessment: Turning the Painful into the Productive , Journal of Total Rewards article;How You Know When Your Recognition Program Is Working , Workspan Magazine article;Performance Management and Rewards , research; Reuse Permission Performance ratings serve as an essential link between employee performance and the rewards they receive from their employer.

To identify these skills and inform decision making around filling skills gaps, organizations should use data from performance reviews and recognition systems.

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The findings in the table reveal a number of important gaps where skill development is needed (gap of 0.50 or more), including (in descending order): Employee vitality;Employee (rewards) experience;Remote working;Recognition;Rewards data management;Rewards communication.; This clearly defines a new era of rewards management, an era of more employee centricity, with an increasing focus on recognition, vitality and improving the return on rewards investment by the means of excellent communication on rewards.

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