Can Creating Heroes within an Organization Motivate Employees? (My Answer to Linked in Questions)

My answer:

All of us know that management concepts do propagate the concept of recognising and announcing heroes. However we need to remember two important points:

A. Motivation of a person is directly linked to his/her own aspirations in that organisation and also generally his/her outlook towards life.
B. Is the "Hero" really a "hero"?

A lot of times Heroes would automatically come up due to performance or any other special achievements in the organisation. But typically msot recognition schemes are based on past results and that's typically not a good management practice in spite of the latter being the most practiced "practice".

Management and Senior Managers are typically fixated ONLY with results and deliverables and do not delve into the depth of the "HOW". Therefore the "effort" that goes into accomplishment is never understood, recognised, monitored and appreciated..In a soccer match while goals are scored by strikers, the midfielders and the defenders need to play their role and create the situation and that requires serious planning and execution for the final outcome to happen as desired.

Yes, success stories are required but we need to find out and highlight the successes that led to the final succesful result and highlight the men and women who worked for it along with the last striker who sent the ball into the goal. Sphere: Related Content