There's no shortage of suggestions for linking compensation to other goals.

Q. Aside from Delphi and a couple of other companies in bankruptcy, haven't boards generally made progress in linking compensation to performance?

Mr. Maughan insists that his notion of linking compensation to shareholder returns is a good one.

To focus attention on quality issues, Mr. Floyd has linked compensation directly to quality improvements.

During the preparatory processes of the conference, South Africa stressed that it did not want to link compensation to apartheid.

He also expressed concern that the way the bill was written, linking compensation with amnesty, rich perpetrators of the 2000 coup would benefit the most.

Pay for performance systems link compensation to measures of work quality or goals.

In this instance, even tribal officials admit that the man got next to nothing because the rules link compensation to the cost of treatment, and his was cheap.

It is to clarify this point that we suggest linking compensation to the actual fall in the number of unemployed persons and, consequently, the cost to the community.

Mr. Atwater said that splitting the company into two businesses would allow General Mills to link executive compensation more closely with stock performance.