Offering Official Rewards
Explore how to use official rewards such as formal titles, salary adjustments, bonuses, public recognition, and promotions to effectively motivate and retain your engineering team. Understand the importance of coordinated efforts with HR and company policies to implement these structured rewards.
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Within this section “official” rewards, as a classification, are those that require involvement from the HR department and/or company leadership to carry them out. These are often going to be more “formalized” and long-lasting rewards, and more subject to formal company policy and procedure to deliver—for that reason, as a manager, you should be researching what it will take to do any of these things for your team members as soon as you take your role, so that you can be aware of the timeframe and procedures involved.
Title
Although it may seem trite—and certainly the Silicon Valley has seen its share of “custom” titles that developers love to select for themselves—the title assigned to a role can make a non-trivial difference to ...