rewards

In most jobs, little notes or token gifts about a recent positive job performance is a moral booster. Everyone needs a boost every now and then. Since most of the time we rarely hear about the positive that goes on, we only hear about the negative. Companies don't have to do much, for example a friend worked for a leather goods company and they used distinct tags on their products, so for their rewards program they use the tags to write a positive note on when a supervisor sees a worker doing a random positive thing, a tag with his name also goes into a bucket for a drawing for a small gift card at the end of the month. These types of rewards, for the most part do work, they are positive reinforcement in my experience. It doesn't have to cost the company much money, but can help boost the moral in these tough economical times when.