Employee Recognition,
Service Awards
&
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 2009 Employee Awards Banquet, held March
26, 2009, 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.