Choose who can nominate for an award

Each award has its own limits on who can nominate and who can receive it. You set them on the award’s Eligibility and approvals step, when you create it or with Edit.

Limits on the award

• Nominator grade groups: only people in these grade groups can nominate. CSV awards don’t have this, because nobody nominates for them.
• Where is this award available?: the countries the award can be given in.
• Tenure eligibility (months): turn it on to set a Minimum months employed and a Maximum months, separately For receivers and For nominators. Leave the maximum empty for no limit.
• Limit nominations to specific employees: only the people you add can nominate.
• Allow self-nominations: shows if your company allows self-nominations. Choose Self and others or Self only.
• Use eligibility rules: apply one or more saved rules. Select Create eligibility rule to make a new one without leaving the award.

Reusable eligibility rules

When several awards or badges share the same limits, save them once as a rule in Recognition → Eligibility rules, then pick it under Use eligibility rules. See Create an eligibility rule.

A rule is shared. Changing it changes every award that uses it.

What nominators see

When someone is outside the limits, the nomination is refused with a message. For example:

• “You are not allowed to award yourself!” when self-nomination is off.
• “Not eligible, as the minimum tenure for this recognition is 6 months from DOJ!” when a receiver hasn’t been employed long enough.
• “Not eligible, as your previous nomination for the same user is still pending!” when their earlier nomination of that person is still waiting.

Who can do this

The Awards page shows for super admins and admins with the Manage awards permission.