Your mention of the committee to recognize people made me think of this: when my grandmother died, we started an award at her workplace (Harvard Medical School) to recognize people in service positions there, since there was lots of recognition for the medical personnel and academics working there but nothing for the administrative assistants and other people who work in service positions.
What the committee decided to do was to share the nominating materials with everyone who had been nominated, not just the winner, so that people who were nominated could see that their bosses were saying about them. That has apparently had a hugely transformative effect on workplace culture, as people now can see that they're being appreciated.
(My stepsister is now working there, and is eligible for the award. It would be interesting if she won it, given the family dynamics at play. I think I'd volunteer to be the award presenter that year; we try to rotate it among the family members.)
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Date: 2013-07-17 04:18 pm (UTC)What the committee decided to do was to share the nominating materials with everyone who had been nominated, not just the winner, so that people who were nominated could see that their bosses were saying about them. That has apparently had a hugely transformative effect on workplace culture, as people now can see that they're being appreciated.
(My stepsister is now working there, and is eligible for the award. It would be interesting if she won it, given the family dynamics at play. I think I'd volunteer to be the award presenter that year; we try to rotate it among the family members.)