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control over the company. Also, as we discussed in the cash option, share price will

Corporate valuation is improved by providing strong incentives to employees who work in MII. For example, publicly traded stock options are available for employees of MII, which should provide motivation and reward.

1978, and the patent was issued on October 21, 1980. This innovation was like the method of

gotten to the patent before them allowing for them to create a monopoly. The Capitalists if the

10. Stock options provide the holder with an option to acquire a specified number of shares in a corporation under prescribed conditions and within a stated future time period. Options that are issued as an attachment to other securities are called stock warrants. Warrants may trade separately while options do not. Options often have a limited life while warrants often have no expiry date.

If the company is not paying well for positions compared to other companies with the same job types, they will have a retention problem which will negatively impact knowledge, performance, attitude, and skill set. Accordingly, companies who have a better pay package will have happier employees who will perform at higher standards, and this usually results in satisfied customers and higher company profits. Arguably, when employees feel they add value and are appreciated, they will give the company and management discretionary effort and have a sense of pride working for the company. On the other hand, companies who are on the lower end of the pay spectrum, have low morale, complain more, and usually have employees who are at work just for a paycheck, and do not care as much about the overall results of the company and their performance. In many cases, these employees try to do as little work as possible and end up working harder to get out of work than if they just

Research shows that people working in these fields would rather work for Sodexo over the companies that they are currently working in and other companies as well. By Sodexo doing this, we would see a growth in our profitability, range of the fields that employees can work in, etc.

b) ESOP’s: Incentives that allow the employees to buy the share of the firm they are working at lower rates which creates the sense of ownership.

Most important, the employees can earn stock, which gives them voice within the company to make pertinent decisions.

The catalytic converters were considered defective because a fair chunk of them experienced mechanical erosion, this causes the catalyst substrate material to detach from the catalyst shell, causing it to rattle around inside the shell and break into pieces. When these pieces get blow out from the car’s tailpipe, it leaves behind an empty catalyst shell resulting in a gross emitting vehicle. Also, a good number of vehicles were found to have defective on-board diagnostics (OBD) systems that failed to detect the deteriorated or empty catalyst converters.

For each share purchased with the employee’s own funds, a French bank would lend them funds to purchase nine additional shares (up to 500 shares total). Employees would then place all ten shares in the bank’s custody as collateral for the loan. Employees would be prohibited from selling the shares for 4.5 years except under unusual circumstances. The loan could be repaid at the end of 4.5 years either from the employee’s pocket or through sale of the shares. BT would guarantee employees a minimum of 1.25 times the money employees put up to purchase the shares. In exchange for this guarantee, BT would take 1/3 of any price appreciation at the end of 4.5 years over the public offer price of 150Ffr per share. In terms of financial contracts this would be a combination of options (employees’ option to sell stock after 4.5years) and futures (BT’s obligation to pay 1.25 times employees’ personal contribution). This alternative seems to be fair for employees in the case of price depreciation, because they will have a secure profit. If shares appreciate, they will earn 33.7% of return per share less than in A1, but will also earn it on a higher amount of shares. Therefore, it is important which effect prevails. Moreover, with BT’s proposal employees lose share ownership, unless they decide to pay with their own resources.

A way to approach the elimination of carbon monoxide from car exhaust is through the use of organometallic catalysts. Through the use of a catalyst, a reaction can occur at a faster rate and at lower activation energy. Said catalysts serve are of great commercial interest because they essentially convert simple mole-cules into more complex ones.6 Unlike homogeneous catalysts, heterogeneous catalysts are not in the same phase as how the reac-tion is occurring. Because of this, the catalysts are considered to be cheaper and easier to obtain. It is also considered more envi-ronmentally friendly to use.6-7

Many companies look to salaries and benefits as the first places to cut back when looking to make changes that involve cost-saving. When this happens, it is inevitable that some employees will leave the company to seek employment elsewhere. The employees that remain, whether they stay voluntarily or because they could not find employment elsewhere, are often resentful. Motivation decreases, taking job performance along with it. Employees lose their company loyalty and may even become angry enough to purposefully sabotage the company.

Infosys provides strong property rights to its employees by providing employee stock option plans. Top management were given profit sharing plans based on the company performance as an incentives. ESOP’s usually guarantee long term employment. But later Infosys withdrew the stock options plan due to various complexities and accounting challenges.

Stock options provide a financial incentive to employees. If the company does well, then the employees benefit financially. Providing this benefit has the effect of the employee having a vested interest in how the company performs; therefore, the employee will work hard, do their best work, and stay