To me, all of this needs to be considered; it's all relevant when it comes to pay increases, even though in many cases personal performance and company performance aren't directly related. If a company is not doing well - making money - it naturally wants to minimize costs, and one of a company's biggest costs is often its payroll. Employees need to bear this in mind. Under those circumstances getting a raise at all is a pretty strong show of appreciation from the company. By the same token, the company - upper management, I'm talking about a company as if it isn't a group of people - should be transparent about its earnings with its employees. That way, the employees are capable of looking at their raise or whatever in light of the big picture.
Of course, there will always be those who are too short sighted and self centered to see anything but their own perspective and none of that will matter. These are the same people who always think management sucks and are out to get the help; the "us against them" crowd. Nothing you can do to help those people IMO.....
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