Gainsharing plans are:
A. basically the same thing as profit sharing plans.
B. based on any organization factor whose costs can be calculated, where a share of the gain is provided to the employees.
C. based on employee stock ownership at a level of at least 50% ownership in the firm, where employees provide gains to the company through ownership.
D. direct ownership plans that transfer value of the company to employees based on gains in productivity over the course of each year.
E. individual incentives that measure employee weight gain or loss and pay employees who lose weight an incentive payment.
B. based on any organization factor whose costs can be calculated, where a share of the gain is provided to the employees.
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