Fairness: the ultimate reward goal

Even before the controversy over MPs’ expenses broke, earlier this year five Anglican bishops attacked the last 10 years of government for being lacking moral direction and increasing the gap between rich and poor. So what, you might say – their market share is hardly increasing is it? And in its highly regarded forecast of The World in 2009, The Economist predicted that as the global recession deepens ‘a more elitist shift will occur: companies will worry about the performance of those at the top of the pyramid, while everyone else will be managed like a commodity’.