Match Your Employees With the Right Reward

Maritz Inc., Fenton, Mo., has a new study out that analyzes employees based on the way they like to be recognized. After talking to 1,003 adults employed full time, researchers arrived at six categories — Freedom Yearners, Nesters, Award Seekers, Bottom Liners, Praise Cravers, and Upward Movers — to define employees with specific traits in the hopes of helping companies better motivate their winners.