Why is this not surprising? Who has the power / responsibility to affect things? A lowly poor programmer / line engineer / worker have power only to meet their

Why is this not surprising? Who has the power / responsibility to affect things? A lowly poor programmer / line engineer / worker have power only to meet their deadlines. Who can change things? The executives. So providing them with options will make a difference as the incentives are aligned towards people who can make a difference. But the biggest problem of the study? The value of company performance is setup against stock values, which miss the real performance metric: Revenue generation.