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Assignment: Employee Rewards and Recognition

As an HR manager in a large healthcare organization, you have developed a new reward and recognition program designed to help increase employee motivation and job satisfaction in a specific hospital department of your choice. You may choose a clinical or nonclinical department.

Based on the course readings and a minimum of four appropriate sources of research, create a 4-6 page executive summary suitable for presentation to senior leadership on employee motivation that includes the following:

1. Determine which department is best suited for the reward and recognition program.

2. Identify a specific goal the employees must work on to be eligible for recognition or to receive the award.

• Examples include reducing errors, increasing customer/patient satisfaction, or reducing costs.

3. Research a specific motivation theory and determine why this method would be the most practical and effective for this program.

• Examples are the expectancy theory, equity theory, goal-setting theory, Management by Objectives (MBO), or the four-prong model of intrinsic motivation.

4. Explain why the selected theory would be the most practical and effective for the rewards and recognition program.

5. Recommend 2-3 types of rewards and/or recognition that would the most effective in motivating the employees to achieve the goals.

6. Create a communication tool for eligible employees announcing the program, rules, and awards.

• Examples: Email, newsletter, internal Facebook post.

7. Go to the Strayer Online Library and locate at least four quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and similar websites do not quality as academic resources.