Bonuses, Commissions, and Quotas

[Humility]

Its not relevant since I don't have a manager. Did that excellent management include some incentive rewards either tangible or intangible?

[Gnerphk]

Intangible rewards are always the best; they enrich the employees immeasurably while costing the employers little or nothing. Win-win.

But that's nitpicking; one can use similar logic to determine that the Han Dynasty would defeat the Romans because they'd be the first to develop the steam engine. Instead, I'd advise examining the general observed data to determine a subjective principle and the comparing and contrasting the subjective with other subjectives to derive a probable general principle.

Here's two; they seem to hold:
"Punishments and rewards, improperly applied, cause far more harm than good."
"People are never unbiased. (But then I could be wrong; I'm only human.)"

[Rodri]

Marketforce, I'm a vendor. That means I go from store to store getting paid between $6-8 a job, setting up various products and I get no travel pay. And I get absolutely no incentive, the only thing they have to make sure I do my job are random audits from other vendors.

I am sad to say more then once I have done a sub-par job simply because I was in a rush and felt no pressing need to do better.

But my job really isn't relevant to this.

I was just trying to make the point that any workplace that was managed in the way that you suggested would not be a place I would want to work and I was not referring to anything to do with your personal situation. It was simply a comment in the context of this debate.