A possible rationale for golden parachutes is to prevent management entrenchment by giving managers incentives not to resist changes at the top RIGHT to make it easier to retain managers to facilitate mergers to induce management to focus on performance in order to avoid being dismissed to prevent management entrenchment by giving managers incentives not to resist changes at the top RIGHT to make it easier to retain managers to facilitate mergers to induce management to focus on performance in order to avoid being dismissed.