The Bonus Risk

Present bonuses

What about the rewards?

And the rewards are apple cube rewards.

I'll collect those rewards when I get ready.

a Gross hourly wage excluding bonuses.

Emoluments, pension scheme and conditions of service for

If they get lucky, the rewards are immense.

Now these have gradually shrunk to nothing.

a Gross hourly wage excluding special bonuses.

In addition, bonus compensation should be redesigned.

As one recent government study concludes Besides the lure of significant profits, organized crime groups are drawn to economic crime because of the relatively low risk of detection, prosecution, and punishment.

In comparison, the bonuses at Goldman Sachs are a rounding error.

Same deal. A bunch of games, three levels of rewards.

But this time, people offered the highest rewards, they did the worst of all.

I offer rewards and nothing happens.

In particular, bonuses based on medium term results of risky trades and investments must supplant bonuses based on short term outcomes.

For starters, the use of bonuses based on one year results should be discouraged.

This is why we give bonuses to bankers and pay in all kinds of ways.

The terms of payment of fees should be reviewed and modified in a manner that would act as an incentive to expedite the work.

If rewards ain't for dead or alive, they'll bring some of us in dead.

Of course, the earnings that provided the basis for these bonuses evaporated in 2008.

Executives should not be able to pocket and retain large amounts of bonus compensation even when the performance on which the bonuses are based is subsequently sharply reversed.

But this time, people offered the highest rewards, they did the worst of all.

Equally important, the government offered rewards for interim progress, not just ultimate success.

Our experience with shale gas, our experience with natural gas, shows us that the payoffs on these public investments don't always come right away.

Rewards, by their very nature, narrow our focus, concentrate the mind that's why they work in so many cases.

And for candle problems of any kind, in any field, those if then rewards, the things around which we've built so many of our businesses, don't work!

And the offered them, for performance, three levels of rewards small reward, medium reward, large reward.

When I asked one CEO whether there was any discussion of returning their bonuses, the response was not just no, but an aggressive defense of the bonus system.

The result is an overall corrupting of society, with the financial (and in some cases even social and political) rewards of participating in the illicit sector often greater than for those participating in the licit economy.

Companies reduce their superfluous employees annual bonuses, but do not get rid of them.

Similarly, bonus compensation should be redesigned to reward long term performance.

In order to address this issue, a review of the academic reward system, particularly within developing countries is necessary.

This is despite the often greater benefits associated with long term rewards.

Awards contain a range of provisions to help workers balance their work and family responsibilities.

Developments must be combined with more innovative compensation and reward structures with universities aligned to national objectives.

The terms of payment of fees should be reviewed and modified in a manner that would act as an incentive to expedite the work (see para. 37)

And I think the most interesting way to think about how all this is going on is in terms of rewards.

And the idea is that there are many things in life, particularly, delayed rewards that we're not designed to care about.

The focus of that anger has been the massive and unwise financial sector bonuses.

For Africa and Europe, the Peacebuilding Commission is one of the biggest prizes to come out of the summit and a major priority.

Further, unless payments are made in instalments related to specific phases of the service, the incentive for timely completion may not be there.

Miss Nelson, did you know that rewards for information... leading to the arrest and conviction of the murderer total 8,000?

There is also evidence to support that proposition from the observable fact that rewards in the less regulated parts of the asset management sector hedge funds etc are typically higher than in Security and Exchange Commission regulated competitors.