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Analyzing the Failure of an Incentive Strategy
A manufacturing firm, 'ComponentCo', pays its assembly line workers wages that are 20% higher than the local average for similar work. The company's goal is to create a strong incentive for high effort and quality, as individual worker output is difficult to monitor precisely. However, after six months, management observes that worker productivity has not increased and defect rates remain unchanged. Analyze this situation by identifying and explaining two distinct factors, other than the wage level, that could be diminishing the motivational effect of the company's pay strategy. For each factor, describe the mechanism through which it weakens the incentive for employees to exert high effort.
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