In your organization, to what extent are people evaluated and rewarded for their skills and effectiveness as a team player versus for your individual performance?

Evaluation and rewarding of individual and teams can be categorized into monetary awards and non-monetary.

Rewarding teams can enhance co-operation in an organization while rewarding individual employees encourages individualism

Evaluation of individual employees is easier than evaluating team efforts;in evaluating teams there must be certain characteristics such as definite tasks and set targets.

Teamwork is enhanced when employees reward teams in an organization.

Leaders rewarding teams are tempted to look at teams as individual employees forming a team instead of jut seeing them as a team and rewarding them as one unit.

Teamwork is becoming so widespread in many organization since it increases performance and productivity in a certain company.Even though teams are commonly used the performance evaluation is mostly done to individual performance and rarely on teams.It becomes hard to measure the work a team does but you should use some aspects such as,meeting of deadlines,sales target met,degree of customer retention,meeting of budgets among other tools.Rewarding both team work and individual performance can be a good step to success at work.Rewarding individuals appreciates them for meeting certain targets and also recognizes exemplary employees at work.When you award teams,all employees at least feel their contribution is recognized and the success is to all of the participants.Team work is enhanced when employees sees that the management appreciates and rewards teams.Hence organizations are now investing and improving awarding teamwork.

Individual employees after performance appraisal ,they can be awarded in monetary and non-monetary terms.Employees can be given monetary awards such as bonuses where an employee is given some money on top of wages.An employee can also be given a shopping voucher worth a certain amount to shop for what they want.An organization can also add to an employee on his or her salary.Commission can also be given on the sales made above a certain set standard.Employees can also be awarded with non-monetary awards .They can be given promotion at work from one level to another or their job grade upgraded.They can also be given certificates of appreciation for work well done and hitting targets.Employees are also given holidays by the employer.The holiday expenses are fully funded by the employer as a reward for the work well done by a particular employee.Workers can also be recognized in front of other stakeholders,this can boost their morale in the job but it can also demoralize those unrecognized employees.Rewarding employees is important since it motivates employees who are not rewarded to do more and thus leading to overall success of an organization.

Teamwork is as well important since it contributes immensely to the success of an organization.Employers and the HR department should now device ways of rewarding and recognizing teams effort since it helps in attainment of certain goals.Team awards can be of two categories;monetary and non-monetary.Monetary awards include team bonus,team vouchers and team commissions.Non-monetary include team recognition,team party and many others.

Comparing individual versus team rewards and evaluation is important since it helps an organization decide on which to put more effort on.Rewarding teams can be used to encourage co-operation in certain organization whereas individual rewards encourages individualism and employees to work and achieve at a personal level.Mostly in an organization ,what is needed more is co-operation since it has one common goal and hence rewarding teams becomes more advantageous in achieving such motives.

For team rewards to be well evaluated and rewarded must have distinct goals and a set target so that their work is measurable.Some work is not measurable and hence rewarding teams in such instances brings a challenge.Rewarding individuals is an easy way since all have roles and hence evaluation on their roles by performing performance appraisals you can reward effectively.

The team leaders when rewarding individual teams,they are tempted to see the team as just individual employees instead of a team

In conclusion therefore,both individual and team reward is essential in leading to the achievement of organizational goals.Organizations are now embarking and investing more on rewarding teams instead of individual employees to promote unity and co-operation in an organization.