Business Insider Magazine - Los Angeles South Bay » employee morale http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider Business Insider Magazine is Your Business Publication for the Los Angeles South Bay Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:58:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Building a Culture of Employee Appreciation http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/2009/10/building-a-culture-of-employee-appreciation/ http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/2009/10/building-a-culture-of-employee-appreciation/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:38:45 +0000 Editor and Publisher http://www.businessinsider.us/BusinessInsider/?p=300 strategy-79-hands1_252[1]How Datotel overhauled its employee-appreciation, -recognition, and -incentive programs

By Nadine Heintz

(Inc.com) David Brown thinks it’s important to make his employees feel valued. So Brown, founder and president of Datotel, an IT services and data storage business in St. Louis with 38 employees, was dismayed when he realized his employee-of-the-month program wasn’t helping morale. Recipients didn’t seem enthusiastic about the award, which consisted of a $25 gift card, a perfunctory e-mail, and a mention on the company intranet.

It seems like a simple concept: Make employees feel appreciated, and they will ... Continue Reading

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