Pay for Performance Plans. Identify any potential weaknesses to the performance based reward plans (if any). Identify any unintended consequences that could occur from the implementation of such a performance based reward plan.

A) A computer software firm is disappointed by the number of bugs that appear in the software code of their programs. To improve the quality of the software that is developed by the company the owner of the software firm offers a large cash incentive to each programmer for bugs that are found in the software code. B) A pizza chain wants to help improve literacy in a community by offering a free pizza for every book read by a child. Every time a child brings in a certificate self-reporting that they read a book that child receives a free pizza.

C) A department store manager has been told to cut costs in her department store because her overhead is too high compared to other stores. She is rewarded and promoted by the store for cutting labor costs. She reduced these costs by removing entirely all custodial services for the store. What problems might her successor have upon replacing her as store manager?