Key points Employee recognition can be an effective tool to improve performance. How you recognize your employees can make a difference to the results they achieve. Apply employee recognition to the right behaviors and the right people. When used together; money, feedback and recognition seem to have a stronger effect on performance than when used
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Effective team communication has many benefits. If you are concerned that poor team communication may be costing your business money, keep reading. In this Evidence Summary, we outline some of the latest science on how you can improve communication within your team.
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According to Fortune 500, the annual list of 500 United States companies with the highest revenue, the 2017 ranking includes only 32 female CEOs. And that’s just one of many examples of a gender gap in the workplace. What’s more, a substantial proportion of the fast-growing and promising future jobs, like web developer or mathematician, are occupied mostly by men (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2017). Should women be concerned about their position in the labour market?
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How can we increase people’s acceptance of and positive responses to the performance evaluation process? – if you deal with employees’ performance reviews in your professional practice, you have probably faced this question
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1) Work results depend on a person’s internal motivation.

2) The belief that money or bonuses can decrease employees’ internal motivation is only partially founded – financial rewards and recognition can sometimes increase the positive relationship between internal motivation and work performance.

3) While enjoyment may be more beneficial for complex activities, incentives seem to matter more for straightforward, repetitive work.
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