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Receiving a denial for a raise is unpleasant and even humiliating, but it always has some reasons you should discover and understand to know how it will be possible to get it in the next future.
Firstly, if you work for a private company, you should try to understand if this denial is relative just to your efficiency at work, or to your possible bad relations with your bosses and colleagues, or if this is a general strategy of your company of not giving any raise to the personnel.

Try to ask politely your personnel director the reasons; normally, his answer will be rather diplomatic, so, if you know him well, try to understand what he's really his message to you, listening "between the lines" his or her explanations.
Later, ask prudently the colleagues with which you have more confidence, if they had already had the same answer and why.
If your company is little, you could know the truth much more easily because you know everybody and how the whole company works. In any case, try to make as better as you can your work, provided that this doesn't create too much stress on you or makes you loose your dignity.

Of course, don't accept humiliations and neither additional work charges, if you can, but if this is the only option to keep your workplace and all your colleagues are in the same situation, accept it and hold on, if you haven't still found a new job and you have a family.
Survival is the first thing, in these cases and it's always useful to be patient and prudent, never surrendering to resignation, fear, nervousness, frustration or rage.

If your boss makes precise remarks about your work to justify his denial, listen them well, give with patience and precision all your justifications but without being polemic and ask some advices and "tips" to remedy, if possible.
At that point, makes all your best at work and, above all, try to understand if this denial is only a first sign before they give you and/or to all your colleagues the sack.

It's not rare that a company suddenly closes or puts into practice "restructuring plans" at the expenses of its staff and the regular denial of all raises could be the sign that "the ship has just begun to sink".
This has become easier today, given all the financial "games" that many companies try to make today, from the ENRON and Parmalat cases, respectively, in the US and in Italy, to the much wider recent financial crisis started by the sub-prime crack occurred in the US, involving most of the banks and industries of the US

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