An experiment conducted by the Nottingham School of Economics suggested that the payment of bonuses to workers did not encourage greater effort, and actually led to more shirking.
一项由诺丁汉经济学院做的试验表明:奖金并不能促使人们更加努力工作,实际上还会导致效率更大程度的下降。
But there are people who still made fairly substantial money in other product areas - you cannot just not pay them bonuses, they will just go elsewhere.
但还是有人在其他的产品上赚了不少钱-你不能就不付给他们奖金,他们会跑去其他公司的。
For example, if your culture highlights bonuses, people might not want to come to trainings or get-togethers if they think that money spent on these events will reduce their bonuses.
例如,如果您的文化强调奖金,如果人们认为花在培训或聚会上的资金会减少他们的奖金,那么他们也许不希望参加这些活动。
More often than not, such bonuses go to any officer in the “critical” career fields of the moment, regardless of performance evaluations.
这些奖金多半不分青红皂白按人头发到当时在所谓的“高危”领域服役的军官,根本不作业绩评估。
The employment minister, Tony McNulty, said staff on lower salaries should not forgo their bonuses, but the issue was totally different for senior executives.
就业部长托尼·麦克纳尔蒂表示,低收入员工不会放弃奖金,但是对高管来说这就完全不同了。
A moment's thought should show how foolish that would be. The bonuses would still remain in the pockets of the employees whose failures deserve censure, not reward.
不过这种方法很愚蠢,这一点略想一下就会明白,因为这样做奖金仍会被装到银行雇员的口袋中,本应受到惩戒的他们反而受到了奖励。
On executive pay, France and Germany had hoped for a binding agreement to cap bonuses, but they will not get one because of British and US opposition.
关于高管薪酬问题,法、德两国本希望达成一项具有约束力的协议限制高管奖金,但因英、美两国反对,此项协议将成泡影;
That is why most of the changes have been on the composition, not the amount, of bonuses, with a greater percentage of annual payouts now awarded in stock that can't be sold for years.
这就是为什么在多数情况下是对奖金结构,而非奖金数量进行调整。年度奖金现在有更大比例是以股票形式发放,这些股票需要持有到一定年限才能卖出。
Tiner will be chief executive but, unusually, will not be on the board, so his pay and bonuses will not be made public.
Tiner会成为首席执行官但奇怪的是,他不会成为董事会的一员。因此他的薪水和奖金将不会公诸于众。
Worst of all, bonuses are being paid in part from subsidies: this is not a free market, but a perversion of it.
最糟糕的是,一部分奖金来源于补助金:这不是一个自由的市场,恰恰相反,这是个反常的市场。
Many ebooks are sold nowadays with bonuses, which you usually do not get with a printed book. This adds value to your purchase.
目前有很多电子书出售时还附有奖金,你买印刷的书通常得不到的,这就给你的购买增加了价值。
JPM cut bonuses by 31%, which may or may not be a sign of The Times.
摩根大通的红利减少了31%,这或许就是这个时代的标志,也有可能不是。
But don't be confused. Free samples and free ideas and free bonuses are not necessarily generous ACTS.
不过别弄混淆了,提供免费的样品、主意和红利并不一定是慷慨大方的馈赠。
So even though households now have more income-because companies are hiring more, and raising overtime and bonuses-this has not shown up in consumer spending.
因此,即使现在的家庭有了更多的收入—因为公司雇用更多的人,提高了加班费和奖金—这些变化都没有在消费者的消费上反映出来。
In these financially troubled times, bankers tend not to score too highly on the scale of public admiration, with their bonuses, bailouts and bad loans.
在这个饱受金融问题困扰的时代,银行家们在公众心目中似乎得不了高分,奖金、紧急财政援助,还有不良贷款。
Related to this is the contention that chief executives should not be paid bonuses.
与此相关的论点是首席执行官们不应当获得奖金。
The review showed that the increased year-end spending went not only toward equipment but also to fund year-end 'bonuses' to aides.
我们的评估显示,年末开支的增加不仅仅是因为购买“硬件”,还有一些是为了给助手发年终“奖金”。
Decisions on bonuses are still months away, but they are sure to come down as well if business does not pick up.
关于奖金的决定还有几个月,但可以肯定如果业务更不上的话必然减少。
In those circumstances, it is not surprising that higher taxes on Banks and bankers' bonuses enjoy strong public support.
在这种形势下,对银行和银行家奖金增税会受到民众的热烈支持也就不足为奇了。
The study did not look at banking, but it does suggest that sensible bonuses are feasible.
此项研究并未涉及银行业,但它的确表明,合理的奖金切实可行。
If our tests mimic the real world, then higher bonuses may not only cost employers more but also discourage executives from working to the best of their ability.
如果我们的测试模拟了现实世界,那么高报酬不仅使雇主付出了更多的成本,而且使得经理人不能全力以赴的做好他们的工作。
The bonuses would still remain in the pockets of the employees whose failures, so the public believes, deserve censure, not reward.
发放的奖金红利仍然还是在那些人们认为应当因其失败而受到责难而非奖励的员工腰包里。
The New Star philosophy of rewarding managers with bonuses in shares, not cash, looks threadbare now that the shares will be both heavily diluted and delisted from the London Stock Exchange.
新星用股份而非现金来奖励其基金经理的哲学现在则已被视为破履,因为公司股份一方面被严重稀释,而另一方面又被伦敦交易所除牌。
And bonuses are, for the most part, the symptom not the disease.
从更深的意义上讲,奖金只是表证,而非疾病。
Free samples and free ideas and free bonuses are not necessarily generous ACTS.
不过别弄混淆了,提供免费的样品、主意和红利并不一定是慷慨大方的馈赠。
Free samples and free ideas and free bonuses are not necessarily generous ACTS.
不过别弄混淆了,提供免费的样品、主意和红利并不一定是慷慨大方的馈赠。
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