Originally Posted by
Flibb
Even individually if the company has that bad a year they shouldn't get a bonus, especially the top management team. The point is always made that the company culture is driven from the top, its one of the main reasons given for such high pay, but when things go wrong its always somebody else's fault, they didn't know, etc.
I have worked places that give high sales bonuses that are still paid even when things are not going well for manufacturing side, sounds like a good idea to try and keep sales up to drive the manufacturing, problems is that the sales team can make promises manufacturing cant keep, which can cause problems for future sales, and means that manufacturing fails to meet its target and misses out on a bonus. Have also been in a discussion where R&D asked for a separate bonus structure, the people involved couldn't see that their work directly affected manufacturing. Its great coming up with new ideas, but it often takes a very good engineering and scientific team to design them for manufacture.