BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ANOTHER employee of the Connector Line Department at Kajola Kristada has won that company’s Employee of the Month award.
Jeanne Phipps, a mother of five and resident of Fort Thomas Road, was recently awarded for her hard work and dedication at Kajola-Kristada by being named Employee of the Month of May.
This is the second time that someone from the Connector Line has won the award as Methlonde Rawlins of that department won Employee of the month for January 2011.
Phipps, who declared that it was her first time winning the award, said that she was grateful and appreciative of it and enjoys her work.
“I love my job and I love Kajola. Kajola takes care of their workers,” she said.
In an effort to show their employees their hard work and efforts were appreciated, the monthly award was initiated four years ago.
Phipps now joins Annette Davis (April), Elaine Matthew (March), Sherlon Wigley (February) and Rawlins (January) on the establishment’s wall of achievements for 2011.
In a previous interview with SKNVibes, Human Resource Manager Malvie James said that the General Manager, José Rosa, is instrumental in making sure that the employees are recognised and duly awarded.
James mentioned that the company has an Employee of the Month Committee which includes supervisors from each department and two members of staff.
She also told SKNVibes that the supervisors are given appraisals forms upon which they would score the employees, and the employee with the highest points from each department would be discussed by the committee.
Among the criteria for judging the Employee of the Month are knowledge of the job, quality, attire, versatility, punctuality, attendance and team building.
Kajola-Kristada Ltd. is owned by the Mezzalingua family in Syracuse, New York and first opened its doors on May 5, 1999. The main product manufactured by the company is CATV Traps, which are small cylindrical electronic devices that are fitted into Cable TV wires to allow Cable TV subscribers to see certain channels or block those to which the customer does not subscribe.
