Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 17, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development [link] “Golden handcuffs” is a phrase used to describe a system of financial incentives designed to keep key employees from leaving a company. She is a co-author of The Character-Based Leader, as well as the author of the Random Acts of Leadership blog.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Huawei does it in part with the type of incentive performance system the company employs. This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.”

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. They’ll find some rude awakenings in the outside job world.

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