What will/can a good bonus do to a person

Bonus and Appraisal are 2 big words which a Software Employee breathes on .And what can a good appraisal or a bonus do to a person who works well.

There are many reasons for which a person normally works. Majority of us work for a living, some work for personal happiness, some work to achieve challenges which may or may not have a good return and some work to pass time. Let us take the mindset of the majority of the people who work for a living.

The people who work for a living can be

1. People who are satisfied with normal life and the facilities they have .

2. People who work to have a better comfortable life

3. People who have big dreams

How does a bonus affect each of them. A good bonus might not have a great affect on the first type of persons. These people will be happy with or with out a good bonus. Being satisfied with there lifestyle, they wont get hurt much if a comparatively less appraisal or a bonus is given. They continue to work well all through the year

The second set of people are the majority. They always plan well .It might be office work or personal life. A good bonus will have a great impact on this people. They feel proud, happy and continue to work well to achieve and reach there comfort life levels. They will become the backbone of the company . The immediate output levels will be drastically high after the bonus. On the other side, a bad bonus will have a great impact on this people and the organization. While some continue to work well expecting for a better bonus or appraisal next time , a majority of them will be in a disappointed state. As this people are the majority, it will have a great impact on the productivity levels of the organization. As there nature is to work well , they continue work with half hearted ness and bit of dull atmosphere.

The third set of people are the great ones. A great bonus will not have much affect on them. While some of them feel happy that they have got a good bonus, a majority of them will not be happy as there aims are higher. They expect an even better pay than what they got. A bad bonus will be real bad for this set of people. Many of them will quit the organization and continue to go where they feel there work will get them achieve there big dreams. While a few people reduce there work and change their life style to a sedate state. And a few people will become 200% workaholics thinking that they need to get superb appraisals next. As these people are less in number, the organization will not have much impact what ever the bonus is.

While there people who work for Appreciation and Recognition and not for a money sake , but these 2 wont make any sense if not backed by a good pay .

So what ever a person is , a good bonus will act like a catalyst and will increase his productivity. And hope all managers , organization realize it and also hope my manager is too listening

Note : I am talking about people who work well, only because of the fact that a bad working person will always be happy with a bonus and the bonus can either be good or a bad one.

PS : Thoughts of a immature blogger