The phrase "ability and incentive" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the factors that motivate someone to take action or perform a task, particularly in contexts related to economics, psychology, or organizational behavior.
Example: "To ensure employees are productive, it is essential to provide both the ability and incentive to succeed in their roles."
Alternatives: "capability and motivation" or "skills and encouragement".
Last week, some Ivy coaches expressed skepticism about the league's ability and incentive to handle recruiting issues at Harvard.
It is to eliminate the ability and incentive to engage in such conduct, and to restore competitive conditions, to which the proposed Final Judgment is directed.
The need for a remedy that will restore competitive conditions and mitigate Microsoft's ability and incentive to use its monopoly power to disadvantage potential competition is well documented in the trial record.
The government brief adds that "in rapidly evolving technology markets, even a brief delay in effectuating remedies that will reduce Microsoft's ability and incentive to engage in anticompetitive conduct will have a serious adverse impact on competition and innovation".
In its brief, the group said: "Microsoft has the ability and incentive to continue to use predatory tactics to protect its monopoly power, to destroy additional competitive challenges and to extend its monopoly into adjacent markets".
In today's findings the regulator said it was unlikely the combined company would have both the ability and incentive to harm ticketing agents other than CTS, or other promoters.
The combined company would have the ability, and the incentive, to hamstring online innovation.
And those who are "underwater" — who owe more than their homes are worth — often lack the ability and the incentive to keep up with payments.
The CMA likewise said it is comfortable with the impact of a BT/EE combined force on backhaul services supply, and wholesale mobile or broadband services, judging that it "would not have both the ability and the incentive to disadvantage competitors such that there would be significant harm to competition".
There are lots of things it could do to improve the ability of and incentives for American companies and workers to innovate and grow, whether it's taxing fossil fuels, giving more green cards to foreign scientists and engineers or simplifying the tax code.
Depending on what strategy works best for you, Healthrageous offers the ability to tailor recognition and incentive programs — maybe it's cash that keeps you on a healthy trajectory, or competing with your colleagues and friends.
