At Esco Retail, All Employees Are Constantly Driven to Work

Multiple Choice

At Esco Retail, all employees are constantly driven to work hard. The company places maximum emphasis on stocking high quality goods and providing high quality service to retain the edge they have in the retail industry. To promote organizational commitment further, the company incentivizes employees by enabling them to purchase company shares at below-market prices as a part of their benefits. This mode of providing incentives represents the use of ________.

A) flexible benefits plans
B) merit-based plans
C) modular plans
D) employee stock ownership plans
E) core-plus plans