Replacing our single job-performance-centered concept with an overall company-performance-centered team concept
In order to maximize productivity and profit the hiring manager should conceptualize the resulting group of employees as a single functional unit, i.e. like co-expressed genes forming a single functional unit, or like a winning Olympic sports team consisting only of highly collaborative members, who are putting their team's, i.e. their company's interests over their own by first worrying maximizing their company's productivity and profit before thinking about raising their paycheck. Ideally, the employees' behavior and priorities follow the rationale that - if everyone devotes everything he/she can towards maximizing their company's profit first - then there is a better chance for everyone to get a higher raise by their employer than when insisting that the pay-raises reflect the difference in job performance between each worker.