Sentence examples for management ploy from inspiring English sources

The union said the lockout was a management ploy intended to have the president intervene.

But it is probably a better management ploy than sticking up a sign saying "Third-best or nothing".

The performance-based salary package that Torre rightly turned down was nothing more than a ploy so management could tell the team's millions of loyal fans, "We wanted Joe back — look at the lucrative deal we offered," knowing that Torre would reject it.

He said: "This is yet another cynical ploy by the management to undermine our victims group.

These ploys let Fannie's management pocket rich bonuses.

Susan managed to get word of the situation to upper management, who resolved the situation with a political ploy of their own.

Speaking at the Council of Institutional Investors' spring conference on April 7, the Goldman Sachs chief executive said that rather than do their own homework, "too many financial institutions and investors simply outsourced their risk management" to the agencies, which proved the riskiest ploy of all.

Megayacht owners, aided by a fleet of lawyers, management companies and banks, are developing increasingly complex variants of these ploys to keep a step ahead of the tax man even as the authorities strive to close down what they see as scams.

Would an investment in an employee concerns programme simply be 'a legal defense fund for bad employees?' Or at another level consider the staff's problem of determining whether management actions represented a genuine increased interest in improving plant safety or just a ploy to placate workers and regulators.

Ryan Cummings, chief analyst on Africa at the crisis management assistance company red24, thinks the group's increased attacks against Niger are part of a ploy to confine the army in the country and prevent it from attack Boko Haram positions in Nigeria.

House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) called it a "a cynical ploy" in a comment to The Hill, arguing that the Obama administration's "oppressive land management plan is the same as a listing".