The owner of a small robotics company needs to make some decisions regarding his company's employee compensation plan. One of the owner's valued employees has approached him with a request for a pay increase; the owner has to decide whether to grant the raise. The owner is also considering instituting an 'employee trust' (i.e., an organization-level reward plan that would provide a payout to employees in the event that the company is sold). The owner also needs to consider his employee compensation plan as a whole and decide whether his current compensation system is helping him to achieve the company's goals.