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by falcor84 512 days ago
I don't think this is possible. In a sufficiently large organization, however much you try to prevent it, some employees will be "psychopaths" (going by Hintjens's definition) looking to game the system. Whatever the metrics are, they will put in only enough effort to advance their own interests, and assuming they succeed (and at least some will) at getting raises/promotions, the org is then at risk of (legitimate) legal action from other employees who put in more actual work and get lower compensation.
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It's not even that there are pyschos, it's that incentives wane with scale because individuals have less control over outcomes.
That is still an alignment problem. Psychopaths can be good for the org, you just need better mapping of the game and reality.