As children grow up one of the first lessons that parents try to instil is the notion that things don't just happen - hard work makes things happen. In other words, hard work pays. It's an obvious truism - but does it also hold that paying people according to some measure of their performance makes for better organisational outcomes?

Here are six issues that are worth considering:

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