Their employees became too focused on quality. Once again, a balance between quantity and quality needs to be rewarded. Next in importance after poor work quality in the list of difficulties, farmers noted that employees did not always change their behavior after the incentive was in place. Often the reason is that workers simply do not see the connection between the reward and their added hustle. Employees may not try as hard in the future, if they see that the same few tend to be the only ones rewarded.
Studies show that top workers today are likely to be tops tomorrow.
Some employees may not try hard out of a fear that the harder they work, the more the employer will expect of them. And yet others prefer to work at a slower pace and earn less. When employees do not seem motivated by an incentive program, farmers may want to note how widespread the situation appears. If only a few workers are not interested in the incentive, perhaps the difficulty lies with them. If 40 percent of the employees are not motivated by the incentive, the problem may be the way the incentive was developed or presented to them.