Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine if companies’ incentive programs for employees is designed in such a way that it makes it possible for managers to reach their goals. Method: Qualitative with a semi standardised questionnaire Results: Our results is that the incentive programs for employees in their present form don’t give the companies a good possibility to effect the employees to perform towards the goals of the system. The performance measures in the incentive programs for employees is suitable in comparison with the goals of the program but the construction and the use of the systems doesn’t give a satisfied result in comprising with the goals. A number of flaws have been found in regards to the incentive programs possibility to improve the employees’ effectiveness.