The answer seems to lie in the structure and the performance criteria of the three companies.
And of the 14 performance criteria set by the city, the public-schooling system achieves precisely none.
The public, it seems, also has no right to know the performance criteria upon which these compensation decisions are based.
The performance criteria are based on the requirements found in a job description, which are updated regularly to stay current and realistic.
Southeastern said the Department of Transport (DOT) formally offered the continuation after it met the performance criteria set out in the franchise agreement.
All too often, the board words the performance criteria in "babel-speak, " says John Kapitan, senior vice president at Stern Stewart, a shareholder-value consultancy in New York.
Compensation committees, in turn, must clearly identify the performance criteria they expect each senior executive to meet, and install measurement methods to ensure companies get what they pay for.
The performance criteria used to determine the annual bonuses for the named executive officers were net sales and operating income as determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
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Also, Morgan Stanley was ahead of its peers by attaching long-term performance criteria to the vesting of stock options based on ROE, TSR, and Pre-tax Profit measures over three years.
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One of the primary performance criteria of any leadership team (in addition to managing risk, out-maneuvering the competition, and so on) is delivering profitable growth and a decent return to investors.
To the rescue have come a plethora of scientific processes aimed to guide the hapless leader: defined competencies, performance criteria, psychometric assessments, structured feedback, bell curves, 4-quadrant matrices, 9-box grids, circumplexes, weightings and ratings.
Insist on performance criteria that match your needs.
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It adds a pay for performance overlay that allows the agency to earn up to a 23% margin when meeting a performance criteria that includes Agency Evaluation Score, Specialist Metrics, MarCom Metrics, and Business Performance Metrics.
In most cases, financial incentives intended to drive performance are effective only in roles where the performance criteria are completely unambiguous and easily measurable, individual performance does not depend on the contributions of coworkers, and necessary job tasks have a clear beginning and end.
If management insists on continuing to use vague and subjective performance criteria that have repeatedly been shown to play such a large role in excluding women from executive suites, Boards of Directors and the offices of equity and managing partners worldwide, applying the force of the law may be the only answer.
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But a teachers' union rejected criticism that heads were not applying tough enough criteria for performance pay.
Like an elite academic institution, the SVSC has strict, performance-based admissions criteria.
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One mutual fund that Rosenbluth recommends based on this criteria of performance, fees and risks is the Invesco Diverisified Dividend Fund (MUTF:LCEAX).
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At the same time, Obama said, schools should be judged on criteria other than student test performance, including attendance rate.
They found many non-obvious factors which correlate to strong sales performance and have now changed their screening criteria and raised first-year productivity by over 20%.
Performance reviews that feature rigorous, detailed criteria and that are regularly scheduled, taken seriously, and conspicuously tied to compensation and advancement are a critically important factor for easing gender bias.
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It seems very likely that allowing the principals to choose which teachers to lay off will most likely result in a better teaching staff than a layoff strategy based entirely on a criteria with no relation to performance.
To determine the 2013 ranking, Corporate Knights trimmed down an initial list of 4, 000 publicly traded companies to 350, based on financial performance, sustainability disclosure practices, and other criteria.
Recognized for its industry-leading performance across a range of economic, environmental and social criteria, Samsung Electronics was named the world's most sustainable technology company in the 2011 Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
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Itemize the different criteria by which executives are rewarded for hitting various performance targets.
If these criteria were considered to be a part of executive performance, bonuses would have been much lower and less extravagant in 2010, and total compensation for executives would not have made such a dramatic upward movement.
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If one tightened his criteria slightly and excluded countries with negative credit outlooks, the freedom performance premium would have been even greater.
These criteria were chosen because they reflect commonly recognized measures of overall company performance and are associated with the creation of value for shareholders.
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