Had the airline been more precise with its employees and stated that it regarded the stock option as a different form of paycheck, perhaps my friend wouldn’t feel so resentful. The airline overstated the scope of the partnership and inflated employees’ expectations. A similar proposal may backfire in the future. The next time the labor [...]
In a labor–management situation, for instance, a company may want to partner with its union to improve quality, productivity, or processes—yet it wants to be adversarial when it comes to negotiating benefits and wages. These two contrary positions may be difficult to understand. A true partnership needs to focus on mutual interests, but it doesn’t [...]
Fund flows measure the amount of money that comes into or leaves the open-ended mutual funds during a given period. Coupon payments are not included. The flows of pension funds, hedge funds and insurance companies are not tracked in this number. Nevertheless, there is a high correlation between high-yield market total returns and mutual fund [...]