Therefore, individually contingent pay, by tying an employees pay to his or her performance during a specific time period, is an attempt to reformulate the employer-employee relationship into a pseudocontract between buyer and seller. Under conditions of uncertainty, interdependence, and complexity, such pseudocontracts cannot be completely specified. They can, at best, cover only a portion of the desired actions and become a forced and artificial representation of the kind of performance that would be most effective for the organization ( a familiar problem for those who have had experience with merit pay programs ). Further, since pay can be such a powerful motivator, all the problems in the use of pseudocontracting in organizations are mand worse when pay is attached to fulfilling the term of the contract.