Sentences with phrase «higher incentive compensation»

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.

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

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If you hold your shares in street name, it is critical that you cast your vote if you want it to count in the election of directors, the vote to approve the amendment to our Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation, the vote to approve the amendment and restatement of our 2013 Equity Incentive Plan, the advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation, and the stockholder proposals requesting: (i) the elimination of supermajority voting requirements, (ii) the adoption of a policy to consider employee pay ranges when setting CEO compensation, and (iii) a report on Salesforce's criteria for investing in, operating in and withdrawing from high - risk regions (Proposals 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 in this Proxy Statement).

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.

Among HP's peer group companies, HP executives have a higher percentage of performance - based pay, which generally means smaller bonuses and lower overall compensation in years of low performance and higher bonuses and long - term incentive payouts in years of exceptional performance, reflective of the performance achieved.

The HRC has reaffirmed the policy of deferring a portion of annual incentive compensation for the Company's highest earners in the form of long - term awards whose vesting terms take into account longer risk - emergence periods, and has overseen the implementation of standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff to further prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

In setting base salaries at higher than pre-financial crisis levels and reducing target and maximum annual incentive compensation opportunities from pre-financial crisis levels, the HRC intended to establish a more balanced relationship between fixed and variable annual compensation to reduce the focus on short - term performance and the potential related risks.

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.

In addition, the HRC recently expanded the use of Performance Share awards to a broader group of management, and reaffirmed the Company's directive to provide a portion of annual incentive compensation in long - term awards for the Company's highest earners and to create standard performance objectives for the Company's control function staff, to further provide safeguards that either prevent or discourage excessive risk - taking.

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.

Adding to high profitability, Lear Corp's executive compensation plan recognizes the importance of ROIC, as two - thirds of long - term incentive awards are tied to achieving a target ROIC.

Higher compensation earlier would attract to the profession people who could potentially become more - effective teachers, while fewer financial incentives to stay would supposedly lead ineffective teachers to leave earlier than they otherwise would.

Higher early compensation will offer only a small incentive for promising though untested teachers to enter the profession.

The Teacher Incentive Fund is a competitive grant program that supports performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems in high - needs schools.

While some of these proposals offer higher compensation or other financial incentives for educators to work in the neediest schools, others reward high - level performance focused on improved student achievement and other identified criteria.

It will also share information about the Teacher Incentive Fund, a federal program that helps high - need schools develop and implement performance - based teacher and principal compensation systems, and Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which focuses on preparing, training, and recruiting high - quality teachers and principals.

Congress, states, and districts should offer incentives for high - performing students to enroll in teacher prep; competitive compensation to attract highly qualified professionals from other STEM fields; and expanded clinical practice opportunities through STEM and CTE teacher residencies, such as those proposed last fall in the Creating Quality Technical Educators Act.

Any proposals to increase child - care money must include more meaningful incentives and accountability to assure quality, and better compensation has to be offered to teachers to reach those higher standards and, once there, to stay in the profession.

The U.S. Department of Education has invited applications for the latest round of its Teacher Incentive Fund competition, which supports the development of performance - based compensation systems to place and keep effective teachers and principals in high - need schools.

The decreases from the prior quarter — or the decrease from the prior quarter was due to the adoption of the revenue - recognition standard, which caused expenses to decrease by $ 9 million and lower distribution expense of $ 1.7 million from two fewer days in the quarter, offset by higher comp and related expense from incentive compensation and seasonally higher payroll taxes.

I'm not against pay for performance, but... I think the general partner's incentive compensation at Steel Partners is quite high for a publicly traded limited partnership, especially so since the incentive stock grants are made at a discount to market.

While inadequate health and safety training is a factor behind higher injury rates, research for Toronto's Institute for Work and Health also suggests that companies contract out risky work to temps because of financial incentives under the current workers» compensation system.

Merit pay is an approach to compensation that rewards the higher performing employees with additional pay or incentive pay.

It addresses compensation - based incentives; inappropriate steering, discrimination, and other abusive, unfair, deceptive, or predatory practices; minimum federal lending standards; high - cost mortgages; mortgage servicing; and appraisals.

In addition, these employees generally receive the highest current compensation in the company, and have the greatest amount of equity incentive compensation.