But analyst believe Mr Ingram, who still owns 16% of the company, and other senior Tempus managers may have been mollified by tempting job offers from WPP.
In the fall of 2006 a group of 30 senior managers from across the company convened for two months in the Ebay Toys building, dropping everything else, to figure out what Ebay should be.
Airline employees had been asked to rate factors that affect workplace happiness, including growth opportunities, benefits, compensation, work-life balance, the company culture, their senior managers, job security, and whether they would recommend their employers to others.
Its aim, to improve corporate governance, tighten the rules governing company accounts and clearly apportion responsibility to senior managers to certify public accounts, is laudable.
Wilcox laid off half of the company's senior-level employees and promoted middle managers with a strong grasp of E Ink's technology and the manufacturing process.
Other senior managers in Germany support his position, say company sources.
Firstly, more senior managers are shunning retirement, which makes climbing the ranks within a company tougher.
Our company does not provide health insurance, because our workers, even our most senior managers, only work for us seasonally (ie a few months of the year) and many work part-time.
Davis immediately replaced 11 of the top 12 senior executives, reduced head-office personnel by 40% and interviewed 110 managers across the company.
They added that the plan to make Mr Glasenberg the chief executive of the merged business put at risk the ability to retain other senior managers who, in the original deal, were to become directors of the new company.
Its senior managers get Stock Appreciation Rights (SARs), which give the holder the increase in a company's stock value between two dates.
They report directly to the chief marketing officer and other senior executives and are expected to vie for a slice of the marketing budget alongside the company's other brand managers.
Senior managers talk about engaging and retaining this workforce by providing pay, perks, and play opportunities in a company.
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