At my employer everyone who works as a scrum team member gets certified as a Scrum Master to understand the process better

Just curious, does your company similarly send folks to certification courses in other domains too? For example, are your programmers sent on Perl certification courses? Java certification courses? I'm often astonished by the willingness of companies to shell out big bucks on Scrum training, while skimping elsewhere. I mean, the modern developer has to master many different skills from many different domains, and Scrum is one of the easier ones to master without attending a formal training course IMHO. Perhaps folks push hard for Scrum Master Certification so as to "add value" to their CVs?

As you might have guessed, I'm not a fan of certifications in general, agreeing with merlyn:

I will be discouraging individuals from taking such courses, and HR people and clueless managers from looking for such certifications, particularly demanding them to be considered for an application. I will continue to work hard with my clients and my fellow contractors to have actual track records be considered, not some test one has managed to pass and pay for.

-- Perl Certification -- still Snake Oil by merlyn

Scrum makes it worse by ignoring important (but hard) agile engineering practices, and the Scrum Alliance makes it worse still with their armies of trainers--some good, some not--issuing dubious "ScrumMaster" certificates to people who demonstrated competence in connecting butt to chair for two days.

-- The Decline and Fall of Agile by James Shore