by Michael C. Jensen The Monitor Group and Harvard Business School e-mail: MJensen@hbs.edu Abstract This paper analyzes the counterproductive effects associated with using budgets or targets in an organisation’s performance measurement and compensation systems. Paying people on the basis of how their performance relates to a budget or target causes people to game the system and in doing so to destroy value in two main...

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