Originally Posted by
LondonAndy
I disagree. Those who are motivated to perform will perform, whether you dangle some shares in front of them or not. If you made it a relatively significant number of shares (compared with salary) then you would also get those hanging on just to get the shares, even though they didn't want to be there.
Did all the share options in the world do anything for the likes of Nokia, Kodak, RIM (Blackberry) or, and I have some experience in this, RBS?
And I'll disagree with you. Perhaps it's the industry you're mentioning or been involved in. A company I was involved in that went for listing on AIM had a marked improvement by staff when they were offered share option. Probably too well as the company did so well, that it was taken over and delisted before the shares could be exercised. Current company has a share save scheme and people generally seem more aware of what's going on in a broader sense in the organisation than just there small sphere.
If BA followed the John Lewis / Waitrose model to a small extent, there may have been less strikes in the past!!