July 5, 2013

Rewarding Excellence Program Featured in The Post

The County’s Rewarding Excellence program that rewards employee teams that develop creative ways to reduce the cost of government operations was recently highlighted in a Washington Post article.

Front-line employees work together as a team for the betterment of Montgomery County Government by developing and implementing recommendations that improve efficiency, increase productivity, reduce costs, streamline operations and/or enhance customer satisfactions. When cost savings are realized, employees receive a portion of the cost savings in the form of a bonus.

The Post article says, “The county has …found that the program has a positive effect on morale, because they say employees feel more connected to a workplace that they have played a role in shaping.”

Read The Post article.