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Yep. For stuffs like appraisal, the org. should calculate the team's score rather than individual's and hence the team gets some point which should in turn beco

• benjvi 12y ago
  This then encourages free riding, no? In the general case, the goals of the company and the employee are not always aligned so I don't think this is an easy problem to solve.
  • mgkimsal 12y ago
    Yep it does, and I've seen it a lot. I've seen team incentives work, yes, but also seen the opposite. More specifically, the goals of each team member are not always aligned either, so trying to incent an entire team of people who don't have the same goals doesn't always work.
  • cabalamat 12y ago
    > This then encourages free riding, no? It's more likely to do so the bigger the team. In a team of 500, someone might think "my personal contribution doesn't matter much", but they are less likely to think so in a team of 5. Furthermore, in small teams social pressures are likely to deter free riding. > In the general case, the goals of the company and the employee are not always aligned so I don't think this is an easy problem to solve. Yes. It's the principal-agent problem -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem