Power grid enterprises Avoidable capacity cost Operating cost reduction Equipment cost Management cost Sale loss Incentive expenses Equipment cost: dispatching system construction cost, including intelligent device, electricity station, fiber channel and other major equipments.
Incentive trips — all-expenses-paid excursions offered as a reward for outstanding performance — almost disappeared after the American International Group was widely criticized for the lavish spending on one such trip in September 2008, less than a week after it got $85 billion in government bailout money.
But within such limits there is potential for abuse, since the contractor has no incentive to contain expenses.
However, the nature of P4P is likely to further accentuate the emphasis placed on financial incentives at the expense of intrinsic motivation.
This means that hospitals have an incentive to reduce expenses for all payors, rather than simply those regarded as managed care plans.
For example, if incorporated into existing programs such as drug treatment or into corrections settings, additional recruitment expenses, incentive payments, transportation, meals, and child care would not be required.
That, in theory at least, should be music to the ears of the airline industry.Any cost-conscious company would welcome lower transaction fees, but airlines have a particularly strong incentive for scraping away expense.
Many specialists favor the most aggressive care even if there is little to no evidence the patient will benefit, because both doctors and patients have every incentive to spare no expense.
Nor anyone more colorful in objecting to the idea of treating these incentives as an employment expense.
Because his pay is largely based on the film's profits (usually one-third of the take after the studio recoups its production and advertising costs), he's got plenty of incentive to rein in expenses.
