Recognize and Award Employees

The Recognition and Award features of Oracle Celebrate are integrated with Touchpoints and offer more options to award and recognize employees for their achievements and milestones.

Note: These replace the Celebrate Event feature that was present until the 24C upgrade. Therefore, the Actions menu on your Touchpoints page now displays two options – Recognize and Send Award, instead of Celebrate Event, when you have the required privilege added to your role.

Recognition programs can be created by the administrator to appreciate employees and celebrate milestones such as birthdays and work anniversaries, while award programs can be created for celebrating key achievements. When these programs are created, they're available in Oracle Celebrate and Touchpoints. For more details on creating recognition and award programs, see the topic Create Programs.

Recognition programs are usually configured to promote your organization’s cultural values. Recognitions appear on the employee’s Events and Interactions timeline as soon as they're sent.

Awards might go through an approval process through the management hierarchy, if approval rules are configured by the Administrator. When the awards are approved, the employee receives them and they also appear in the Events and Interactions timeline of the employee’s Touchpoints page.

You can send awards and recognitions by navigating to My Team > Touchpoints and selecting an employee from the Employees tab and clicking the Actionsmenu.

Managers can send awards to their direct and indirect reports. They can send recognitions to anyone in the organization.

Here are a few things to consider about recognitions and awards:

• Awards and recognitions sent from the Celebrate application will also reflect in the employee’s Events and Interactions timeline. Similarly, any award or recognition sent from Touchpoints will be visible in Celebrate.
• If there are existing Celebration events displayed on the Events and Interactions timeline, they will continue to be displayed until the timeline period is over. You can click them to view the details on the drawer panel.
• To send recognitions or awards from Touchpoints, the requirements are the same as for HCM Celebrate:
  • At least one recognition or award program needs to exist.
  • The recipient of the recognition or award program needs to be eligible to the program.