The purpose was to force management to make hard decisions about what the company stood for.

Budgets may be introduced to force management to formally communicate their objectives and strategies in the forthcoming periods.

The salary cap will force management to make hard decisions, like cutting popular starters.

But in at least two cases, shareholder groups have successfully forced management to trim the size of the awards.

Several analysts have issued reports favorable to Kodak, saying pressure from investors and the outside directors will force management to take aggressive steps toward improvement.

In the purest sense, a union leverages the collective strength of a group of workers to force owners and management to increase their compensation.

So she enlisted in the United Steelworkers' organizing drive, convinced that a union would force management to improve conditions.

Rolling budgets constantly force management to think concretely about the forthcoming 12 months, regardless of the month at hand.

By replacing much of a company's stock with debt, they forced management to shape up or go bankrupt.

"He forced management to come to grips with our proposal."