Incentives? Productivity?

Report: North Korea fired premier for suggesting incentive-based wage scheme
The Associated Press
Sunday, May 13, 2007

North Korea dismissed its premier last month
because he suggested implementing an incentive-based wage system for workers in the communist regime, a proposal that was deemed too similar to U.S.-style capitalism, a news report said Sunday.

The North's Korean Central News Agency said in April that former premier Pak Pong Ju was replaced by transport minister Kim Yong Il, without giving any reasons for the change...

A report carried Sunday by a Japanese daily said Pak was dismissed over a proposal he made at a Cabinet meeting in January that an incentive-based wage system be introduced to boost worker morale.

The plan involved paying workers by the hour instead of a set monthly salary, the Mainichi Shimbun said...