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, researches 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.