He replied that there was no business logic, it was an unintended consequence of his incentive plan.
So, what could be better than forging a direct link to TSR itself in the incentive plan?
The exceptional performance incentive plan would have granted free share options to senior executives based on the company's performance.
Consistent with longstanding practice and his request, Mr. Ballmer does not participate in the equity component of the Incentive Plan.
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The blame does not lie with the doctors, it is our fault for designing an incentive plan that works as designed.
He assures them they will be able to finish out the fiscal year on the old incentive plan, earning their full commissions.
This figure includes base salary, bonus and long-term incentive plan payouts, and the value realized from stock option exercises and other benefits.
His award under the Incentive Plan is payable entirely in cash, and is correspondingly smaller than those made to the other Named Executive Officers.
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There's another incentive plan at Cypress that should give investors pause.
Determining the optimal incentive plan design will not only help improve performance, it will promote ethical behavior that is in the best interest of the company and shareholders.
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You seem to suggest that the solution is to upgrade its sales staff with a modified incentive plan and improved expertise in hardware, I do not see it working.
He could still be entitled to his long-term incentive plan, which is broadly based on the bank's long-term performance and is worth up to 400% of his salary, if the Barclays remuneration committee awards him one.
Many are part of an incentive plan.
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But in his world, which is not the world occupied by most people, it is the trimmings around the basic pay - the bonus scheme and the long-term incentive plan - that are the real and substantial remuneration meal.
The Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) and the Savings Incentive Match Plan for Employees (SIMPLE) both include employee participation, as does the traditional 401k.
That means a broker has less incentive to push you into one plan versus another, but also less incentive to spend a lot of time with you parsing every detail of the plans.
Their foot-dragging and mudslinging over the bipartisan plan for incentive auctions serves nobody but a handful of moneyed interests.
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That gives Britain in particular, as the home of Europe's dominant financial centre, little incentive to adopt the plan (which requires unanimous support).
Offering to match their funding with a gift is generous and provides a great incentive for them to plan and save for their future.
This year, senators had an extra personal incentive to pass a budget plan.
In Europe, leading operators face strong competition from challenger carriers and thus feel they have an incentive to continue increasing phone plan complexity level.
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Here's how American retirement accounts will work: To give a strong incentive for saving, my plan will offer working and middle-class families generous matching tax cuts.
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Plan to justify incentive awards Compensation Committees can expect that public shareholders will demand accountability on how performance will be measured in order to justify incentive awards.
They will be augmenting this with a plan to use incentive auctions to repurpose spectrum that is currently in use by television broadcasters in favor of next-generation wireless services.
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Domenic DiPiero, president of Newport Capital Group, said employers, or plan sponsors, have an incentive to have 401(k)s moved to their rightful place as smaller, inactive 401(k)s can hurt the employer's plan.
Third, it is increasingly clear that the long-run cost estimates of ObamaCare were well short of the mark because of the incentive that employers will have under that plan to end private coverage and put employees on the public system.
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It sounds like sour grapes, but the point is to give the bosses an incentive to get lower-paid workers into the plan.
The House earlier this year passed a GOP-backed Medicare prescription drug plan that encourages private insurance companies to provide the benefit with the incentive of government-provided subsidies.
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The goal is to prevent an employer-retirement plan sponsor with infinite resources, assisted by expert advisors, and limited incentive to tell the truth, from using arcane devices to pursue its own objectives whilst workers are kept in the dark.
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Under the administration's plan, the government temporarily will increase the loan guarantee to 90 percent as an incentive to banks to lend.
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