Gartner Report:

Test social recognition alongside existing pay-for-performance process.

Many companies continue to pour money into pay-for-performance programs that they don't believe work well. Gartner's Jim Holincheck suggests you test something more impactful: social recognition.

Add social recognition into your performance management mix. Compared to outdated performance management techniques, it's more responsive, it easily collects more accurate performance data, and it improves worker motivation.

In this report, Holincheck gives you valuable insight into how to:

• Increase worker motivation
• Improve worker performance
• Decrease reliance solely on manager and executive feedback

Download Gartner's 2012 Strategic Road Map for Employee Performance Management and read their latest advice on how social recognition will change the way leading companies evaluate talent.