Sentences with phrase «value as incentives»

You want these treats to retain their high value as incentives for desired behaviors.

A significant portion of these claims appear to be of a speculative nature and, while providing windfall revenues to businesses and consultants when their claims are successful, they are, at most, of questionable value as incentives for the claimed SR&ED.

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Our culture values homeownership (and all levels of government provide incentives to support it) and it's seen as a stepping stone to adulthood.

But as she worked her way through the self - assessment and began tweaking how she ran the business — putting together an incentive structure for employees, letting go of clients that didn't align with LimeRed's values — revenue rose.

When shares of Capital Stock are to be issued upon the exercise, grant or vesting of an Incentive Award, Google shall have the authority to withhold a number of such shares having a Fair Market Value at the date of the applicable taxable event determined by the Committee to be sufficient to satisfy the minimum federal, state and local withholding tax requirements, if any, attributable to such exercise, grant or vesting but not greater than the minimum withholding obligations, as determined by Google in its sole discretion.

The performance goals upon which the payment or vesting of any Incentive Award (other than Options and stock appreciation rights) that is intended to qualify as Performance - Based Compensation depends shall relate to one or more of the following Performance Measures: market price of Capital Stock, earnings per share of Capital Stock, income, net income or profit (before or after taxes), economic profit, operating income, operating margin, profit margin, gross margins, return on equity or stockholder equity, total shareholder return, market capitalization, enterprise value, cash flow (including but not limited to operating cash flow and free cash flow), cash position, return on assets or net assets, return on capital, return on invested

In August 2012, to create incentives for continued long - term success from the then - recently launched Model S program as well as from Tesla's then - planned Model X and Model 3 programs, and to further align executive compensation with increases in stockholder value, the Board granted to Mr. Musk a stock option award to purchase 5,274,901 shares of Tesla's common stock (the «2012 CEO Performance Award»), representing 5 % of Tesla's total issued and outstanding shares at the time of grant.

As discussed in the CD&A under «Compensation Components» and «Achieving Compensation Objectives — Pay for Performance,» we have provided incentive compensation in the form of an annual cash incentive award based on Company, business line and individual qualitative performance results for each fiscal year, and long - term incentive compensation generally in the form of stock option grants and, in certain circumstances, RSRs to reward our SEOs for contribution to growth in long - term stockholder value.

As described above, a portion of an executive's target long - term incentive amount is delivered in the form of PRUs, and the remaining value is awarded in grants of time - based restricted stock units.

For purposes of our 2015 incentive plans, «global eCommerce gross merchandise value» or «global eCommerce GMV» is defined as the total sales value of merchandise sold or transacted where the transaction originates online, excluding the sale of gift cards.

They are leveraging the new technology to do things in a totally different way and the ability of this technology to move value in an almost frictionless way, and they are using the tokens as financial incentives to create an ecosystem around their ideas.

We regard as fundamental that executive officer compensation be structured to provide competitive base salaries and benefits to attract and retain executive officers and to provide incentive compensation to motivate executive officers to attain, and to recognize executive officers for attaining, financial, operational, individual and other goals that are consistent with increasing stockholder value.

Under the terms of our equity incentive plans, the fair market value on the grant date is defined as the average of the high and low trading prices of FedEx's stock on the New York Stock Exchange on that day.

The release price minus any discounts or other incentives establishes the market's first reference point for the product's true value as judged by its maker.

Even as new demands increase their position's stress, rising stock values sweeten incumbent CFOs incentive to cash out and spend their time more amenably.

As the value of bitcoin is constantly rising, this has given the incentive to bitcoin miners to expand operations.

Thus, the holders of Series A are indifferent between sale prices from $ 50M to $ 60M, which may lead to the same odd economic incentives as the non-participating preferred stock, albeit at higher transaction values.

It's no surprise such money - driven competitions have surged in popularity, given that multiple highly credible studies have underscored the value of employing financial incentives and peer support to positively influence weight loss. HealthyWage.com's own diet - for - dollars program allows participants to make a wager upfront ranging anywhere from $ 20 a month to as much as $ 500.

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

Former Trade and Industry Minister, Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten, who made this known at the party's manifesto launch at the Accra International Trade Fair Centre in Accra, said, «the NPP will pursue aggressive industrialization based on value addition; provide tax and related incentives for manufacturing businesses; investing in skills training and apprenticeship, as well as providing resources for small businesses and start - ups to emerge and flourish.»

Noting how the spread of medical technology is creating clashes with traditional values and within cultures, Thomasma addresses the clash between Western rights - based incentives, as used by the UN to guarantee respect for life and dignity, and communitarian traditions.

To the degree that managers are driven by values that motivate them to respond to financial incentives, this bias in rewarding financial over CSR performance is likely to limit the effectiveness of including CSR measures in the balanced scorecard as a way to encourage managers to engage in CSR behaviors.»

«This underscores the value of energy efficiency programs, as well as the Energy Star program,» Blank said, adding that she expected household emissions to have improved from 2006 to 2010, given recent government incentives to weatherize and improve efficiency.

REDD + Offset Working Group (stateredd.org) was established in February 2011 as a result of a Memorandum of Understanding signed in November 2010 as part of a collaborative effort between the Governors of California, Chiapas and Acre to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (known as «REDD +») and create policies to provide economic incentives for forest conservation by placing a value on living forests and their ecosystems.

Maybe even write a column or host teleclasses for them, as a value added incentive for singles.

Combined with Sodexo's recent research showing that 35 % of 18 - 44 year - olds see a trip to the cinema as a valued reward, this incentive would be a major driver for students to attend an after - school programme.

It is also popular within the Bush Administration, which touts it as an incentive for reform, and also realizes its public - relations value.

Focusing on the systems as a whole also would have encouraged districts to be more honest in their observation ratings rather than creating the incentive for subjective observation ratings to compensate for value - added results that, by definition, grade teachers on a curve.

As competent and well - meaning as they may be, their incentives to economize and maximize value are simply not as strong as those of parents spending their own money on their own childreAs competent and well - meaning as they may be, their incentives to economize and maximize value are simply not as strong as those of parents spending their own money on their own childreas they may be, their incentives to economize and maximize value are simply not as strong as those of parents spending their own money on their own childreas strong as those of parents spending their own money on their own childreas those of parents spending their own money on their own children.

As a result, parents have the ability and incentive to economize in a manner that more closely resembles their spending of their own money — with both economy and value in mind — which in turn fosters the development of a real education market.

[14] These results do not mean that value - added measures can't be used productively as incentives; evidence from Kenya and India, at least, suggest that they can.

Moreover, the research suggests that value - added scores may be more effective as incentive tools when they are combined with observational and other measures that can give teachers information on practices.

We could also benefit from more information on the use of value - added as a performance incentive.

In particular, value - added measures can support the evaluation of programs and practices, can contribute to human resource decisions, and can be used as incentives for improved performance.

DREAM values guide classroom behavior and professional culture, and are reinforced through a variety of earned enrichment opportunities and positive incentives, such as field trips, dining out, and special privileges.

The Teacher Incentive Fund districts are currently among the first in Ohio to begin creating student learning objectives in addition to using value - added as a measure of student growth.

· Teacher compensation should be restructured to provide more incentives tied to performance, first by significantly reducing the number of steps on the salary scale, and then by phasing in a performance based system as the value - added assessment model evolves to the individual classroom level.

The settlement implements an intervention program for targeted schools that includes teacher effectiveness provisions, a collaborative effort to fill teacher vacancies as quickly as possible (including those that occur mid-year), retention incentives — including financial bonuses — for teachers who remain at a targeted school beyond a certain number of years, plus further incentives if that school experiences growth as measured by the school's value - added score.

Most importantly, Dr. Darling - Hammond states that evaluation should include evidence of student learning but from sources other than standardized tests, and she rejects growth measures such as SGPs and Value - Added Models because of the ever increasing research base that says they are unreliable and create poor incentives in education.

Including disability status and other factors, such as accommodation use, in the models may reduce systematic errors in the value - added for teachers with large proportions of students with disabilities, but doing so could create incentives for improper placement of students into special education.

Environmental factors include such things as a learner's opportunity to use newly - learned skills when back in the workplace, incentives, financial or otherwise, to transfer learning, support from management and peers, and the climate of the organization — is training valued?

We are offering special lease and finance incentives to Ford buyers to further enhance the Ford Focus as one of the best values on the road.

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And, given the Volt's current low lease rates, using federal tax incentives, it is likely that value has become a motivator for prospective buyers of this extended - range electric car as well.