The productivity targets are always increasing, but real productivity obviously can't. That creates a pressure to meet the goals through fraud. Stakhanovite is

The productivity targets are always increasing, but real productivity obviously can't. That creates a pressure to meet the goals through fraud. Stakhanovite is the most benign fraud (pooling productivity). There was a Microsoft engineer that outsourced his job to several engineers in India. I bet he seemed very productive. There are less benign frauds. Boeing and their suppliers let quality slip. Wells Fargo met account opening goals by opening accounts without asking the customer.