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Incentives can be punishments, not just rewards. Consider an assembly line.

Why wouldn’t you necessarily want to reward the fastest worker on the assembly line?

Rewarding the fastest worker would increase quality and punish the slowest workers.

Rewarding the fastest worker may increase quality but not overall output on the line.

Rewarding the fastest worker would increase output and overall morale of the workers on the line.

Rewarding the fastest worker may decrease efficiency due to, among other things, the possibility of lower quality and production bottlenecks.

What other incentive system might work?

Reward all the workers based on the number of defective units produced by the line (lower number of defects, higher reward).

Reward the slowest worker on the line.

Pay all workers an hourly wage.

Pay all workers a piece rate.

Reward the workers whose output is closest to the average output of the line.

Reward all the workers based on how fast the line can achieve production levels.

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