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Originally Posted by DCM
simple answer, give them a normal weekly wage, with a very healthy WIN bonus, that should give them the hunger to score goals....
As for anything else, the shear pride of playing for your country should be enough to make you play out of your skin!!
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Are we sure targets with bonuses work...?
NHS managers paid a bonus to reduce A&E waiting times to four hours... leave patients waiting in ambulances. Not booked in to A&E?... the clock's not started!!
Fire brigade managers paid a bonus to meet a target of getting to a fire in eight minutes... stop supporting the community with fire prevention schemes.
Bank employees paid a bonus based on meeting a target of making a profit... make up hugely complex loan instruments based on the idea of selling on your mortgage debt to someone else. Oh, and included in that instrument were the mortgages of people who couldn't pay back at any price, so they defaulted, so the system came crashing down...
Isn't it the case that, as others have said on here, people should do their jobs with pride and professionalism, and work hard as an ethic? A bonus says that you are basically untrustworthy and do not have any internal drive to do your work unless I pay you more, and/or that there is only one thing that matters in your job, and the means of getting that result is not important. It's a flawed system.
A footballer is paid a bonus to prevent goals getting into his net... You fill in the blanks as to what will happen next. Measures drive behaviours...
The FA have spent more on England Managers and their pay-offs since 2000 than it would have cost to build the National Centre at Burton where we could by now have had a generation of youngsters as full of beans as the German side that tonked us. That's not a good use of money, but the stellar rise of this England squad has sold commercial rights at rates that have paid the FA Board their bonuses. Go figure...
I want players who are just plain hungry, whatever they are paid. Seems to me that this lot a lacking a little in that department. As for the FA - sweet FA more like...
