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KnowHR Blog: When Pay-for-Performance Goes Bad

Ron Ulrici · 1 year ago

Frank, I worked for a company that had quarterly bonuses with payouts measured on results against goals set. In the last week of the quarter, production almost came to a halt because everyone was rushing around trying to complete their goals. I know that the boss didn't intend for this to happen!
Frank · 1 year ago

I worked at a place like that too. We had bonuses for machine cycles. Guess what? Dry cycles were as good as product cycles...nutso. We got rid of that metric in a hurry.