I don’t think that bonuses are true incentives. I have always had the view that money can be a stronger disincentive and a problem, rather than an incentive. If people are doing things just for money, then they have got the wrong motivation. The real issue is that people get upset if they think they are being treated unfairly. If someone is doing a good job and he sees the bloke next to him getting more for doing a lesser job, he gets upset. But it is not the absolute numbers, it’s the comparative numbers. It’s the fairness. So, I have always thought that those arrangements were potentially
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