A Conflict of Interest
To Whom It May Concern, The procedure this organization uses to determine and distribute bonus and merit pay has an intrinsic flaw. Currently, managers are rewarded from the same pool of funds used to reward their subordinates. This creates the real possibility for people-leaders to withhold rightfully earned positive performance ratings from their subordinates (and the subsequent monetary benefits that would otherwise accompany them) in order to preserve allocated group funds for their own potential gain. This inherent conflict of interest should be remedied as soon as possible. In addition to this systematic conflict of interest being intrinsically, ethically inappropriate in and of itself, the outcomes that arise from the problem also have the potential to erode morale and trust throughout the company. Given the number of people affected by it, the status quo is arguably class-action worthy. You’d be naïve to think that nobody is tak...