Some places there is a vicious cycle where management (on behalf of the company or following the corporate culture) make demands on the staff without appropriate consideration or compensation and there are staff who do the minimum they can get away with yet expect all the benefits.

At some places, HR/management policies demand all staff being treated equally rather than equitably. By that I mean that everyone gets treated the same regardless of how they behave (I am deliberately ignoring bad/inappropriate/illegal behaviour). This understandably appears to lead to a situation where someone doing just the minimum gets rewarded exactly the same as someone going "above and beyond". This is really a poor situation for motivation especially when the persons just doing the minimum to get by are allocated high value work.