The new standards : methods for linking business performance and executive incentive pay

✍ Scribed by Ericson, Richard N

• Publisher: John Wiley
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 339
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Make the most of the new standards. Every year companies spend millions of dollars on executive incentives. All too often, however, these programs provide a very weak link between pay and performance, with executives potentially rewarded as much for bad decisions as they are for good ones. Packed with examples, The New Standards insightfully discusses:. How to link pay with business results that create long-term value;. Why incentive structures can discourage management from reasonable risk-taking, in some cases, and can enocourage imprudent risks in others;. The full range of inputs that shou. �Read more...

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* The information in the book will contain up to date marketdata, many more how-to examples. * It will be responsive to high-profile problems that companiesare having with incentives, market conditions and performancestandards at the top levels of management. �Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: The New Standards: Methods for Linking Business Performance and Executive Incentive Pay
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: To the CEO
Chapter 2: Business Valuation and Incentive Policy
Chapter 3: Market Practices in Incentive Pay
Chapter 4: The New Standards
Chapter 5: Risk and Executive Incentive Pay
Chapter 6: Motive, Means, and Method: Evaluating Incentive Performance Metrics
Chapter 7: Value-Based Performance Measures
Chapter 8: Ownership, Not Gamesmanship: Setting Targets and Ranges for Performance-Based Plans. Chapter 9: Business Units and Private Companies, Phantom Stock and Performance PlansChapter 10: Using Stock to Create Effective Incentives
Chapter 11: The Medium Is the Message
Glossary
Index.

✦ Subjects

Incentives in industry. Executives -- Salaries, etc. Chief executive officers -- Salaries, etc. Stock options. Employee motivation. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Corporate Governance. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Leadership. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Organizational Development. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Workplace Culture.