- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
Nomination applications are being accepted for the ANR Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Program.
The purpose of the STAR program is to recognize and reward outstanding staff individual and/or team performance within Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Under the STAR plan, managers are able to recognize, acknowledge and reward employees for exceptional performance and/or significant contributions related to and supportive of individual, departmental, divisional, and/or organizational goals and objectives. Managers may acknowledge and reward individuals and teams demonstrating:
- Exceptional performance: Demonstrated and sustained exceptional performance that consistently exceeds goals and work expectations in quantity and/or quality.
- Creativity: One-time innovation or creation that results in time/dollar savings, revenue enhancement, and productivity improvement; and/or ongoing innovative/creative activities that benefit organizational systems, protocols, and/or procedures.
- Organizational abilities: Exhibiting extraordinary skills in leadership resulting in the accomplishment of significant departmental or divisional goals and objectives; effective project management, which could include developing a project and/or implementing a project with substantial success; and/or demonstrating organizational capability leading to a greater level of effectiveness.
- Work success: Significantly exceeding productivity, customer service, quality of care or similar goals, including demonstrating superior interactions with managers, peers, supervisors, subordinates, the University community, and/or clients and customers served.
- Teamwork: For team awards, the following criteria, plus the criterion above, will be considered. Acting as an exceptionally effective and cooperative team member or team leader for a team that has significantly exceeded the goals/objectives of the department/unit.
May 2, 2014, is the deadline for nominations. Directors, managers and supervisors will receive the nomination instructions and application forms by email. Applications should be e-mailed to anrstaffpersonnel@ucanr.edu.
An appointed review committee will review applications and select up to 20 individuals and two teams to recommend for awards. VP Allen-Diaz will make the final selections and unit directors and candidates selected for awards will be notified by July 1.
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