Motivate Without Spending Millions

Rewarding more employees more often with less money may work better than giving just a few a whole lot. The standard way of recognizing good performance -- bonuses, new titles, high-priced quarterly giveaways to only the very top people -- doesn't motivate employees very effectively. What really works, says Eric Mosley, Globoforce's founder and CEO, especially for a budget-constrained company, are the things you might dismiss as the stuff of kindergarten: small awards, all the time, to almost everyone.