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Can appreciating employees really have an effect on their productivity? As a one off, no, it can’t. But if it happens every time your employees have done something worthy of recognition, then that’s exactly what it can do, and research is linking employee recognition to productivity. Research has demonstrated that companies who excel at recognition are 12 times more likely to generate strong business results; in the organisations where recognition occurred, productivity was about 14% better than in companies where there was no recognition.

So how is employee recognition capable of delivering that kind of impact? Here are some of the reasons why it can have such a positive influence on an employees’ productivity levels.