Executive Pay
High quality essays written by financial experts are presented. Essays discuss the history of executive salaries and pay rates, current controversies related to business executives who appear to be overpaid, and various organizational theories about the appropriate pay rates for business leaders.
History of Corporate Executive Wages
In any discussion of executive compensation it must be remembered that many reports in the news media focus on extreme cases, and that the compensation for executives of the top...
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Current Trends in Executive Compensation
Several trends have developed in the modern debate over executive compensation packages. The media has uncovered a number of instances in which executive compensation...
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An Overview of Corporate Executive Salaries
The total compensation of corporate CEOs is rising much faster than the compensation of hourly workers at the other end of the pay scale. Since 1960, the difference has escalated...
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Editor's Choice
Comments on Pay without Performance.
Journal of Corporation Law
The article comments on the arguments presented in the book "Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation," by Lucian...
How to Make Pay for Performance Pay Off.
Journal of Financial Service Professionals
This article discusses the best way to set up an offer of extra incentive pay to employees to meet certain deadlines or goals. Companies that engage...
Are They Worthy?
Newsweek (Atlantic Edition)
The article reports that executive pay matches executive performance, even at rates 431 times that of the average worker. Governments are responding...
Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage.
Journal of Corporation Law
The article examines issues on executive compensation at Fannie Mae in the United States, focusing perverse incentives, nonperformance pay and...
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Ex-exec Badamo dies at 72
Home Textiles Today
Pays tribute to the former textile executive, Matt Badamo.
Overpaid, overweight, and over here
AdMedia
Pays tribute to the late advertising executive Paul Jeffreys.
Obituary
Estates Gazette
Pays tribute to the late Christopher Barrett, an executive at Allsop.
Edna Goring dies, aged 92
Caterer & Hotelkeeper
Pays tribute to the late Edna Goring, a hotel executive.
Firing off
Personnel Today
A blog on the issue of executive pay in a recession is discussed.
Rising Tide Lifts Yachts
Dollars & Sense
Reports on the effect of inequality in the wealth distribution, based on the executive pay study by United for a Fair Economy. Impact of excessive...
Perform or perish
Finance Week
Reports on the executive pay issue in South Africa. Potential to become politicized; Average of highest to lowest pay; Executive pay's outpacing of...
Executive pay under attack
HRMagazine
Discusses how to develop an organization's executive pay program. Correlation of executive pay with company performance; Criticisms on executive pay...
Card Industry Executive Pay, 2005 & 2004
Cards & Payments
A chart is presented showing the "Card Industry Executive Pay for 2005&2004."
Kalov Memorial Set For April 6
TWICE: This Week in Consumer Electronics
Pays tribute to the late Jerry Kalov, an executive of the Consumer Electronics Association.
What's new @ govexec.com
Government Executive
Features the pay and benefits Web site for government executives in the United States.
Penn Kemble, RIP
American Spectator
Pays tribute to Penn Kemble, former executive director of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority.
DIED
Advocate
Pays tribute to the late Patrick Kenney, photographer and former human resources executive.
CRAIN'S LIST: THE FORTUNATE 100
Crain's Chicago Business
The article presents a lists comparing chief executive officers' pay against their performance.
Executive Pay Articles A-Z
- `Cadbury II' begins work
- A delicate balance: Blending the diverse facets of an executive compensation program
- A nice raise
- A Tribute to Alan Tuckett
- A tribute to two dedicated industry leaders
- A wealth of options
- Aberdeen executives take 33% pay cuts
- Abott J. Copeland
- Appreciating Gale Cincotta
- Are They Worthy?
- Around the World, 80+ Times
- Ask a benefit actuary
- Average 1996 CEO pay rose 11 percent, with options now a third of the pay package
- Balancing management and investor needs in executive pay
- Bank and Nonbank Executives
- Bank Execs Pay Diverted To CU
- Bank, Thrift, and Monoline CEOs
- Big shareholders wimp out on exec pay issue
- Bill Pay: Where's the Payoff?
- Bloomberg
- Bob Delaney's world
- British Land's Grigg tops property ranks with �2m package
- Bull and bear markets
- Cablers try digital entry
- Card Industry Executive Pay, 2005 & 2004
- Card Industry Executive Pay, 2006 and 2005
- Careful review disputes the CEO pay multiple myth
- CEO pay
- CEOs taking stock
- Closing the salary gap
- Coast-to-Coast Costs
- Comments on Pay without Performance
- COMPENSATION QUARTERLY
- CONDOLENCES
- CONSULTATION WATCH
- Coopersmith dead at 51 in Arizona
- Corporate directors to spend more time on executive pay issues
- CRAIN'S LIST: THE FORTUNATE 100
- Cuban American Civic Leader Dies in Miami
- Dear Dorothy
- Death of a salesman
- DIED
- Drive to Legislate Executive Pay Continues
- Durgin, former NBC TV president, dies
- Economy didn't slow exec pay
- Edna Goring dies, aged 92
- Emiel Petrone, CE Formats Pioneer, 61
- ENRON, GLOBAL CROSSING, AND BEYOND: IMPLICATIONS FOR WORKERS
- Ex-exec Badamo dies at 72
- Exec who broke race barriers dies at 76
- Execs shouldn't expect big pay hikes
- Executive compensation 1989
- Executive Compensation at Fannie Mae: A Case Study of Perverse Incentives, Nonperformance Pay, and Camouflage
- EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
- Executive compensation
- Executive Compensation: Who Decides?
- Executive Order 12944--adjustments of certain rates of pay and allowances
- Executive order 13106--adjustments of certain rates of pay and delegation of a federal pay administration authority
- Executive Order 13322-- Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
- Executive Order 13420--Adjustments of Certain Rates of Pay
- Executive pay plans in need of guidelines
- Executive Pay Today And Tomorrow
- Executive pay trends
- Executive pay under attack
- Executive sweets
- Executive-worker pay gap growing
- Executives� pay continues to outpace workers�
- Expectations are on the rise
- EXPLAINING PAY WITHOUT PERFORMANCE: THE TOURNAMENT ALTERNATIVE
- Fading tenure
- Fair and square
- Fat-cat flap
- Fat-cat salaries are the best way to get the cream
- Firing off
- Formal executive severance programs on the rise
- Former AWI executive vice president dies
- from the EDITOR
- Good News: You're Fired
- Grabiner: Strategist or ONdigital fall guy?
- GSK Shareholders Deny Garnier Sweetheart Deal
- He made you a believer
- He was always just 'Roone'
- Herbert A. Rippley
- Highest-paid executives
- In Memoriam Francis X. Basile
- IN MEMORIAM
- In Memoriam
- In memoriam
- Integration: Not a Four-Letter Word
- Irv Harris, long-time and respected industry exec, passes away
- IS EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION A BEAUTY PAGEANT?
- IS U.S. CEO COMPENSATION INEFFICIENT PAY WITHOUT PERFORMANCE?
- JACK McCLELLAND
- Job-training agency's policy board nixes exec's increase, bonus
- JOHN E. BURNS REPORTS
- Just defer it
- Kalov Memorial Set For April 6
- LAMACQ PAYS TRIBUTE TO SHENNAN
- Legendary adman Ally remembered
- Lustro exec R.J. Scully dies at 70
- Making better decisions on big bucks for your top dogs
- Managers should stay in touch to increase firms' profits
- Managers's salaries are on the rise, but profits needed to sustain growth
- MANAGING EXECUTIVE PAY: LESSONS FROM THE LEADERS
- Manoogian gets $1, plus
- MARKET COMPARISON EARNINGS AND THE BIDDING-UP OF EXECUTIVE CASH COMPENSATION: EVIDENCE FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM
- Marnie Gillett 1953-2004
- Mel, Sumner defend plump pay packages
- Milestones
- Miriam L. Hornback: a rememberance
- Misdiagnosing Manager Power
- Myron Silverstein, Former Cone Mills Executive
- New Era For Boards And Executive "Pay For Performance"
- Nicholas Pohlit
- NM rewards Tansky with a 24.6% raise
- Non-execs uncovered
- OBITUARIES
- OBITUARY
- Obituary
- Ousted CEO will walk away with �20 million
- OVER THE TOP PAY
- Overpaid, overweight, and over here
- Pacific Century Trimming From the Top in Pay Cuts
- Pay and benefits
- Pay and Benefits
- PAY AND BENEFITS
- Pay Gap Over Time Between Compensation and Benefits Professionals
- Pay Is the Priority
- Pay Without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
- Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
- PAYMENT INDUSTRY EXECUTIVE PAY, 2009 AND 2008
- PBGC's Martin Slate dies
- Penn Kemble, RIP
- Perform or perish
- PERFORMANCE PAY ALL AROUND!
- Peter J. Sheridan
- PROD'N MAVENS
- Puzzling proxies
- Recruiters scramble to fill their own ranks
- Reviewing exec pay practices
- Rewarding failure
- Rewards over the long haul
- RICHARD L. BERGER
- Ricketts' legacy is his devotion to the community
- Rising Tide Lifts Yachts
- Robert Lyness
- S. M. Levitas, 1894-1961
- Salaries don't drive cost of higher ed
- Salary survey
- Scripps Trimmed Execs' Pay
- SEC on executive pay
- Sen. Levin considers defense exec pay cuts
- Size has sharp effect on how shops pay AEs
- Smaller Executive Pay Raises in 2005
- So Long, Gil
- Soaring CEO wages merit close scrutiny
- Stanford Researcher's 'Cockroach' Theory of CEO Pay
- Stock Options Continue to be Used for Executive Incentives
- Study shows CEOs really are paid for performance
- Study: Physician execs demanding higher pay
- Success Story
- Takes on CEO pay
- Tellenbach ankles Kirch as digital feevee suffers
- Telling Your Pay-For-Performance Story
- The AFL-CIO takes its CEO pay concerns on-line
- The corporate fat cats
- The debate over executive pay: Where is it going next?
- The gang of three
- The global shakeup in executive comp
- The megabuck movement
- THE MONEY MULTIPLIER
- The net
- THE PRICE OF LEADERSHIP
- The Significance of Gender in Explaining Senior Executive Pay Variations: An Exploratory Study
- Time for review
- Top CEO pay rose 23 percent in 1995
- Top pay scales hit the wrong note
- Tough at the top
- Understanding Pay-for Performance Programs
- Unions Have Small Impact On Managers' Pay
- Very fortunate CEOs: Stop the stock option madness
- Warnaco's Buchalter Dies at 66
- Weighing up the Fat Cats
- What's new @ govexec.com
- Winant led the way for future female TV execs
