Many companies promote their high performance corporate culture. It is quite common, the high performance corporate culture is about huge bonuses to be paid, but the performance is missing.
The companies have their own internal corporate culture, but the top management ignores the reality in the organization many times. They decide to change the behavior of the employees and they push huge bonuses as the part of the motivation scheme in the organization.
The top management ignores the behavior, habits and emotions of employees. The employees are surprised by the top management decision, but later, they can easily find out, the line management plays the game with the top management.
The line management always presses the top management to make the targets softer and to make the business plan a bit less aggressive. The line management needs their staff to be satisfied and they need to provide some security to their employees.
The line management sees the conflict of the ambitions of the top management and the corporate culture of the company. Most companies promote performance, but their internal corporate culture is more about friendliness and stable environment.
The top management makes the bonus schemes more aggressive, the line management pushes the top management to make the business target easier to reach and the employees have one huge benefit. The employees enjoy the benefit of getting bigger bonuses for the same performance.
The high performance corporate culture is not about high bonuses, it is about the smart management of the bonus scheme and the corporate values.
