Employee Recognition, Service Awards and Longevity Bonuses

Employee Recognition and Awards

To further recognize those employees who set examples of performance worthy of emulation by other employees, the City has established the Employee Recognition & Awards (ER&A) Program. The awards are presented to recipients at the City’s Departmental Awards Celebrations and Annual ER&A Banquet.

Click here to view highlights from the 2010 Employee Awards Banquet,
held April 6, 2010, at the Carolina First Center in Greenville.

The City has established eight award categories:

City Manager’s Award for Employee Excellence
The City Manager’s Award for Employee Excellence is awarded to the employee whose job performance, achievements, work ethic, and attitudes have consistently portrayed the core beliefs and values of the City of Greenville and have advanced the City’s mission.
Innovation Award
This award acknowledges the creative and innovative contributions of the nominee. This is an individual who thinks outside the box and whose ideas have significantly improved the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of City services.

Customer Service Award
The customer service award acknowledges the employee who makes a significant contribution to the City by providing stellar service to his or her internal or external customers.

Above and Beyond Award
This award recognizes the employee who has exerted unequaled personal effort to add value to an outcome that was well above and beyond the normal expectations of his/her normal job.

Team Achievement Award
This award recognizes exceptional results achieved by a team of employees whose job performance and accomplishments reflect synergy of team process and where the team accomplishment has a significant positive impact for the City or its customers.

Health Improvement Award<
The Health Improvement Award recognizes the employee who has demonstrated the greatest sustained improvement in personal health, or, has facilitated the greatest health improvements in other employees.

City Ambassador Award
The City Ambassador Award recognizes the employee who by personal example most consistently illustrates all that is good about the City of Greenville. This includes a welcoming spirit and warm hospitality to visitors and guests, spontaneous helpfulness to all in need, and an endearing enthusiasm in promoting the City’s assets.

On-The-Spot Awards
This award is unlimited in number and is intended to give managers a discretionary tool to promptly recognize exemplary performance, service, or accomplishments by an individual employee, or team of employees. It may also include recognition to employees who identify different ways of doing things that save time or money or provide better service to the citizens of Greenville.

Employee Service Awards

The service awards program recognizes and commends the long-term commitment that loyal employees have made to the City, recognizing that much of the City’s organizational history resides with these employees. Annually, employees who reach incremental service milestones of 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50 years of continuous service to the City of Greenville, shall be recognized with a service awards and paid a lump sum longevity bonus.

Longevity Bonus

All regular, full-time and permanent part-time employees of the City of Greenville are eligible for longevity bonuses which are one-time lump-sum payments, added to one’s paycheck at each consecutive fifth year anniversary.

The Human Resource Department is located at:

City Hall (2nd Floor)
206 South Main Street
Greenville, SC 29601

Department Hours:
Monday – Friday
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Main Office:
(864) 467-4530

The City of Greenville will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified individuals. The City of Greenville does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability status, or age in employment or provision of services.