We believe there are essentially two extremes in terms of culture. Conventional Company Deming-like Company Fear and reward are the necessary and proper ways to motivate people. Fear leads to disaster. People are naturally motivated when they are able to do their best possible work in areas that truly interest them. Internal competition is healthy, necessary and good.
Internal competition is detrimental.
Replace competition with collaboration. People are commodities. Each has an essentially fixed set of strengths and weaknesses and must therefore be assigned to a fixed role in the organization. People are never commodities. Each is a unique individual with much to contribute if only the system will allow it.