The fancy award dinners and wall plaques aren't essential. Let's have a month when everyone is named employee of the month. Plenty of organizations have complaint departments, complaint forms, and complaint-resolution personnel. Employee attitude surveys are an exercise in tree-killing unless they're used to generate rich dialogue and focused action. Respect takes years to nurture, but it can be destroyed in seconds.
Few people expect high pay.
Everyone expects fair pay. For years, we've used terms like boss, subordinate, my people, your people, and upper-level. If you don't think Dilbert is funny, you need to worry. If you think you're turning into Dilbert, you really need to worry. If your workplace is a Dilbertesque universe, engage in random acts of positive change management.