However, there is another type of stock option, known as an incentive stock option, which is usually only offered to key employees and top-tier management.
Among other Dutch companies that offer option incentive plans are: ING Group, and ABN-Amro.
It found about half of them offered some sort of long-term incentive bonus or option plans.
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It is looking at cash-based incentive schemes or phantom option plans, which tie the cash bonus to the stock's performance.
"There was a lot of incentive for staff to support this option, " he said.
Others, including several consulting firms, offer the option without any pay incentive.
For instance, companies are starting to offer stock-option schemes to managers, giving them an incentive to pursue shareholders' interests.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
In the midst of the terror and insecurity, UN official Jochen Wiese offered peasant farmers the option of leaving coca for coffee with the incentive that if they worked together their product could reach the international marketplace.
The crux of the Premier League's concern is that ESPN will now lose its incentive to bid in the next round of auctions because it will have the option of buying content from Sky, at a fixed wholesale price, but that seems unlikely.
An option to buy their companies' shares at a fixed price gives directors an incentive to push up the share price, bringing the interests of management and shareholders more closely into line.
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