The FedEx case illustrates a general principle: when individual performance is hard to isolate, the answer is often to redesign the workflow until it becomes isolable. Hard deadlines, hand-offs, and connection points act as natural performance boundaries. Operators who struggle with incentive alignment should ask whether their process has the structural seams needed to make contribution legible before they reach for complex bonus schemes.
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