If not financially, how are people in Bayerngas Norge motivated?
Salary must be enough so people are satisfied, but the motivation is through recognition and performance, that we are really creating results, recognized by shareholders and the community. In the end, this approach works much better than bonuses. In our business, bonuses are counterproductive, because I haven’t seen anybody who has been able to design a bonus system that works long term. Our business is too complicated to be able to, at the start of the year, define exactly where you want to be at the end. With bonuses, it’s possible to manipulate the system towards overbudgeting or overacquiring. In sum, it’s simply just too difficult to define the proper criteria – in the short term it’s easy, but not in the long term. Speaking to the long term, in the next five to 10 year time horizon, where do you want to bring the company in Norway? Bayerngas Norge wants to satisfy its owners. When we reach the 2bcm target in 2012, we set ourselves a new goal. Reading the German newspapers, interv
