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Ranking of priorities in employees' reward and recognition schemes: from the perspective of UAE health care employees
Author(s) -
Younies Hassan,
Barhem Belal,
Younis Mustafa Z.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
the international journal of health planning and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-1751
pISSN - 0749-6753
DOI - 10.1002/hpm.912
Subject(s) - workforce , business , ranking (information retrieval) , variety (cybernetics) , perspective (graphical) , health care , private sector , public sector , public relations , marketing , knowledge management , political science , computer science , artificial intelligence , machine learning , law
A reward and recognition (RR) system is a tool widely applied by organizations to motivate their employees. Outstanding employees expect their effort to be acknowledged by the organization. However, the variety of rewards and recognitions systems used by organizations may be perceived differently by different employees. The diverse workforce structure in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) poses various challenges for organization managers. Managers need to implement the shrewd RR system which best fits their diverse workforce. This research studied how medical sector employees in the private and public health sector view the RR systems in the UAE. Two lists, comprising 26 major approaches to RR, were prepared and its items prioritized by taking inputs from 250 employees working in more than 30 varied public and private health care organizations in the UAE. The findings of the research are expected to provide guidelines for developing appropriate RR systems for organizations in general, and UAE health care organizations in particular. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.