• For me there needs to be a sense of fairness to a package and I wholeheartedly agree that raises are there to stop demotivation i.e. to maintain the fairness.

    I find that carrot tactics work only in the short term and that stick techniques are best used for discipline purposes (hopefully never required).

    In my experience motivation beyond this either exists within the individual or it does not.

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!