--- title: Don't Blame the Wheel for Missing a Turn | daily.dev description: Holding employees accountable for company-wide business results they cannot control is both unfair and counterproductive. Drawing on Vroom's expectancy theory,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-blame-the-wheel-for-missing-a-turn-vn9l3lyfp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Don't Blame the Wheel for Missing a Turn | daily.dev og:description: Holding employees accountable for company-wide business results they cannot control is both unfair and counterproductive. Drawing on Vroom's expectancy theory,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-blame-the-wheel-for-missing-a-turn-vn9l3lyfp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VN9L3lyfP.png og:image:alt: Don't Blame the Wheel for Missing a Turn og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Don't Blame the Wheel for Missing a Turn **[Yegor's Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/yegor256)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Holding employees accountable for company-wide business results they cannot control is both unfair and counterproductive. Drawing on Vroom's expectancy theory, Adams's equity theory, Deming's red-bead experiment, and Alchian-Demsetz's team production economics, the argument is that motivation collapses when workers cannot trace their effort to the outcome they're judged on. Research shows perceived injustice leads to counterproductive work behavior, including retaliation and theft. The proposed fix is to abandon cascading OKRs and top-line visibility, instead holding each person accountable only for metrics they can directly control and measure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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