The phrase "achieve bonus" is not correct in standard written English.
It may be intended to convey the idea of earning or receiving a bonus, but it lacks clarity and proper grammatical structure.
Example: "To be eligible for the incentive program, employees must meet specific performance targets to achieve a bonus."
Alternatives: "earn a bonus" or "receive a bonus."
In the study, I found being immersed in a more innovation-focused culture increased the appeal of self-interested behavior and led to higher levels of real earnings management to achieve bonus targets.
Independent investors used Friday's AGM vote to show their concern about the secrecy of performance targets that top executives have to hit in order to achieve bonus payouts and share awards.
In 2006, the firm paid $400 million in fines one of the largest accounting-related settlements on record to settle accusations it misstated earnings by $10.6 billion from 1998 to 2004, all to help top executives achieve bonus and other compensation targets.
But teams that meet or exceed ambitious productivity goals achieve bonuses of 80% to 200% above base pay.
"We've learned no facts to support the allegation in the report that the accounting was undertaken to achieve bonuses," Mr. Raines said, challenging the most important accusation made by the company's chief regulator, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, known as Ofheo.
ISS raised issues about the disclosure of operational targets that top executives have to hit in order to achieve bonuses and the award of shares under Sky's long term incentive plan.
The GCA report added that the project renewal strategy had been designed by a consultancy commissioned by Asda to achieve cost savings, and it was clear that "the role of the third party consultants was closely bound up with the issues raised", as they had been able to achieve bonuses based on the amount of money they were able to save Asda.
As one factory operator said: "We have a production bonus system in the line and we achieve this bonus because we learn how to do good quality work in an efficient way.
In this case, the incentive is decidedly win/lose, and the incentive is to never, ever help someone else achieve a bonus.
But potential bonuses may become incorporated in funding expectations and, even though officially phrased positively, failure to achieve the bonus may still be perceived as a penalty.
In the past, there have been several cases of excessive risk taking for personal benefit (e.g., to achieve higher bonus payments) that occurred because traders disregarded the trading limits in order to make up for their losses which, however, resulted in even bigger losses for their institutions (e.g., the so-called "London Whale" at JPMorgan Chase).
