Resultantly, members of the bureaucracy who succour the entrenched government by achieving the assigned targets are rewarded. But, unfortunately such achievements prove a Pyrrhic victory being made at the altar of overdue long-term developmental planning, main casualty of this tendency, that is otherwise inevitable to extricate the nation out of the mire and give it a direction. Similarly, departmental development has remained virtually stagnant over the long period. Hence, proverbial organizational status quo and long-run stagnation. Recent studies by the IMF and other teams in connection with revamping of the tax machinery have revealed that causative factors behind its incapacity are the antiquated and ossified tax collecting procedures and under developed and derailed human resources.
Attribution again goes to the prevailing reward system.
The tax collectors, being aware of the fact that their existing prize posting may be extended in case the annual targets are successfully met, and woe may betide in the opposite case, use their brain and brawl on that score alone, callously ignoring the areas of structural, functional and manpower development, apparently trivial and piffling to them. Conclusion of the above discussion is simple. They behave the way the reward system has taught them to behave. Accordingly, people withhold their best efforts when they see little or no relationship between what they do and how they are rewarded. Most people do not mind working hard but they do mind having their efforts taken for granted.