Should more bosses write letters to employee's parents like PepsiCo's CEO?

Employee recognition can take many forms: a quick thank you; an increase in pay; even staff days, restaurant trips or taking staff for drinks at the company's expense. 

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi has taken employee gratitude more than a few steps further, writing over 400 letters a year to the parents of her high-performing senior executives – reports MSNBC.

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The soft drinks giant executive explained that her sharing of gratitude with the families of her employees was sparked by a visit to see her mother in India.

Nooyi recounts: “When I got home and I sat in the living room, a stream of visitors and random people started to show up, they’d go to my mum and say: ‘You did such a good job with your daughter. Compliments to you. She’s CEO'. But not a word to me.