Rewarding failure can have pitfalls (if we mean something like customer impacting fallout). You may then be encouraging people that create broken things over people that more quietly create well-functioning things the first time around.
Enabling people willing to act is important though and I fully support the do nothing aspect of failure, or better yet support and stabilize but not reward.
> Enabling people willing to act is important though
I think that's the key thing here. Rather than saying "whether you succeed or fail, you're still gonna get your $250 bonus", you're saying "if you try and succeed, you get $500- if you try and fail, you get $100, if you don't try at all, you get nothing."
Enabling people willing to act is important though and I fully support the do nothing aspect of failure, or better yet support and stabilize but not reward.