Compensation systems are important; they are also interesting. It is fascinating to examine the tug-of-war between supervisors and subordinates over incentives. It is fascinating to evaluate the pronouncements about incentives that come down from on high and explore the correspondence between rhetoric and reality — for example, companies are fond of saying that their employees are their most valuable asset, but does employee pay reflect this? Often not. It is also intriguing to consider the wide gap between what people say motivates them and what the evidence says actually does (Rynes, Gerhart, & Minette, 2004).