Sentences with phrase «higher incentive by»

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You could give your best employees «golden handcuffs» by paying above market rates and providing incentives for them to be the highest paid employees in their field.

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.

Some organizations also have the scary habit of manipulating their engagement scores by either offering incentives to get people to score higher or reprimanding employees who don't score their organizations high enough.

However, advocates of reforming executive pay — by linking it with performance and reducing incentives for risk - taking — argue the pay ceilings are so high they lack teeth.

By offering mid - to high - end quality equipment, we provide customers the opportunity to «try out» bikes they may wish to purchase at a later date, providing additional incentive (besides cost savings) to use our service.

Benefits — Each family / real estate investor keeps average $ 600 / mo for 2 yrs, real estate in all major metropolitans will have a traded price, increase buying power of low income high credit citizens, stimulate real estate investment by making it easier for investors to cash flow a rental property, reduce home inventory, the increase home values and liquidity provides incentive to put the $ X trillion in capital currently on the sidelines back to work and mortgage prepayments will increase capital availability.

The decrease in net revenues compared with the third quarter of 2010 was due to lower incentive fees, partially offset by higher management and other fees, primarily reflecting higher average assets under management.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors who are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 percent rate, invite all kinds of tax shelter abuse.

For each proxy statement position, this compensation data was ranked from highest to lowest by the combined total amount of annual cash plus the annualized value of long - term incentive awards.

Banks have an incentive to deposit as little as possible at this rate, and instead prefer to earn the higher cash rate by lending out their balances.

These benefits would (i) largely go to developers and contractors for infrastructure projects like new pipelines that would happen even without new incentives and so be highly regressive; (ii) raise costs by failing to reach the tax - free pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and international investors that are the most plausible sources of incremental infrastructure finance; (iii) not encourage at all the highest return maintenance projects like fixing potholes that do not yield a pecuniary return for investors; and (iv) by offering credits at an unprecedented 82 per cent rate, invite all kinds of tax - shelter abuse.

The higher prices act as an incentive to boost supply, and companies act by, for example, investing in new capacity and finding methods to increase efficiency.

MG&A expense increased 11.5 percent in local currency, driven by higher brand amortization expense related to the reclassification of certain Canada brands to definite - lived intangible assets, partially offset by lower incentive compensation.

Reductions primarily in store controllable costs and marketing spend were partially offset by lower credit income and higher incentive compensation.

For example, we will consider paying signing bonuses to compensate for amounts forfeited by an executive upon terminating prior employment, to assist with relocation expenses or to create additional incentive for an executive to join our company in a position where there is high market demand.

The group incentive nature of employee stock ownership and profit sharing makes this an effective way to create and reinforce a sense of common purpose, and to encourage higher commitment and productivity.23 It is also the case with ESOPs that the new ownership might not be viewed by the firm in the same way as other added compensation because the ownership is financed through loans to buy new capital as company stock, with Federal tax incentives, and the shares are not paid as normal wages and benefits out of company budget reserved for this purpose.

These savings were primarily driven by reductions in store controllable costs and marketing efficiencies, which were partially offset by lower credit income and higher incentive compensation.

Public exchanges provide incentives to high - frequency trading activity by providing superior data packages, and thus the timing advantage that is essential to HFT success.

Favourable attributes associated with boutiques include: 1: Managers who think independently 2: A lack of benchmark - hugging 3: A reasonable, incentive - based remuneration 4: Less run by committee, meaning decisions can be made quickly 5: Less bureaucracy and company politics to deal with than at big firms 6: Higher level of employee ownership and investment in own funds, aligning employee and client interests 7: Lower staff turnover

Record high prices in Asia have had several impacts, including providing economic incentive to bring on additional supply, maintaining a continued reason to burn much cheaper coal despite the negative environmental consequences and a search by consuming nations for secure supply options.

Governments can build on this culture of high ethical standards by creating an incentive for companies to report wrongful behaviour to the authorities.

Designing incentives for market makers in an era dominated by «high - frequency» electronic trading is one of the crucial challenges in today's financial markets, according to the latest report from U.S. securities regulators outlining ways to prevent a repeat of the «flash crash» of May 6, 2010.

If there are 5000 charities monitored and evaluated by Charity Navigator — with some having «no stars» ranging to the highest — what would be my incentive in risking sending money to an organization (mission or not) that I can't review by spreadsheet / graph / stats?

The importance of early treatment is highlighted by the now well - established fact that those who have treatment while they are still holding jobs and with their families have significantly higher recovery rates than do those who have lost these key incentives to recovery.

In short, Novakovic said federal milk orders are there to provide efficiency in the marketplace by offering economic incentives to move milk to high - demand areas.

SVI participants want to build a more stable market by providing structural incentives for the production of high quality and sustainably produced vanilla beans while creating overall conditions supporting the increased use of these products.

Nutrition labels also create incentives for food manufacturers to reformulate their products, so helping populations more broadly by increasing the availability of food of higher nutritional value.

Track birthdays: we see a high 35 % conversion rate on average for birthday incentives in the fast casual segment, so invite your customers to stop by a week before or after their birthdays.

Lead author Sara Chrisman of the Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center in Seattle, Washington, viewed the finding that concussion education requirements for coaches under the state's first - in - the - nation «Lystedt Law» were being closely followed by public high schools in Washington State as «very encouraging but not surprising,» noting that schools had an incentive to follow the law because it provides legal immunity from litigation for schools that follow it correctly.

One of the strongest incentives party leaders can offer in a closed list PR electoral system is a high place on the party list (and a corresponding better chance of re-election) and conversely leaders can punish rebellious MPs by moving them down or off the list.

The only way you can not lag long term and be a communist regime is to not have a competing free system with higher productivity driven by better incentive structures.

By allowing local pharmacies to participate if they match the price of the mail - order company, «there is no incentive for a mail - order pharmacy to bid aggressively for a share of a health plan's business if the pharmacy has no reason to expect that a lower bid will result in a higher share.»

The legislature's Republican minority also put forth a plan that would cull higher paid employees from the state's workforce by offering them an incentive to retire.

Thus, there is an incentive for brand management companies to maximize their revenue — for example, by charging for Wi - Fi — and an incentive for less expensive franchised hotels to have higher room rates — for example, by including Wi - Fi in the rate.

«We found that managers with higher career ambition will be more responsive to incentive pay by taking more risks,» Wang said.

Despite «return to play» laws now in place in all 50 states, which typically mandate youth and high school athletes must leave the field if they are suspected of having a concussion and return only after a medical examination by a health professional, the incentive to keep playing — especially if students are trying to impress recruiters — remains strong, and players may not admit their concussion symptoms.

Some of the excellent new teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and opportunities for continued participation in research.

«Syndication generates a relational incentive for competitors, by keeping the price on a deal high through their individual quotes, which informs the eventual single market price, for the benefit of all competitors.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Taking each factor independently, the team found that CCS only achieves the necessary deployment under one of the following conditions: the price of oil is greater than $ 85 / barrel; the carbon tax incentives increase dramatically to above $ 75 per tonne of carbon dioxide by 2050; or learning rates for technology deployment are sustained at a high rate, with 14 % cost reduction for every doubling of deployment.

By contrast, schools and students might have incentives and opportunities to manipulate the results of high - stakes tests, like TAAS.

High - performing teachers improved their performance as well, especially those within reach of the significant financial incentive created by the system.

New York State and North Carolina, by contrast, give students an incentive to study through the use of rigorous end - of - course exams that signal medium and high achievement levels, not just meeting minimum standards.

We are closer to getting the incentives right in higher education, as it is mainly regulated by private accrediting agencies rather than by state policy.

Either high schools will really have to embrace family incentives by becoming significantly smaller and more informal, or they will have to admit that they are large, modern organizations that require explicit systems of rewards and sanctions to enhance productivity.

Although Skype employee Ross Smith is clearly motivated by sharing his passion with students, other experts might be motivated by working with students in high - need schools or by company incentives to participate in the program.

By so organizing and conceptualizing high schools, we underemphasize the need to provide secondary - school educators with incentives that are more like the incentives of their closer relative, college.

Other high schools may decide that they can motivate their staff best by reducing size and by increasing the familial incentives of their organization.

Such initiatives can give high - achieving students an incentive to work hard by taking summer school or online classes to wrap up their requirements a semester or two early.

By offering better bursaries and incentives, higher quality graduates will be attracted through greater financial incentives.