Effective executive compensation creating a total rewards strategy for executives - Graham, Michael Dennis (AMACOM/American Management Association, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-506) and index
PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1 Business Environmental Impacts; CHAPTER 2 Key Stakeholders; CHAPTER 3 Vision, Mission, and Values; CHAPTER 4 Business Strategy; CHAPTER 5 Organizational Capabilities and People Strategy; CHAPTER 6 Total Reward Strategy; CHAPTER 7 Total Reward Architecture; CHAPTER 8 Executive Total Reward Strategy Components; CHAPTER 9 Base Salary; CHAPTER 10 Short-Term Incentives; CHAPTER 11 Mid-Term Incentives; CHAPTER 12 Long-Term Incentives; CHAPTER 13 Wealth Accumulation Incentives; CHAPTER 14 Executive Benefits; CHAPTER 15 Executive Perquisites
When it comes to executive pay, it's hard to know what to do. On the one hand, shareholders, stakeholders, government agencies, and the general public are demanding that safeguards be erected to prevent the excesses of the recent past, such as kingly pay for mediocre performance or stock options that handsomely reward short-term gain and long-term disaster. On the other hand, an across-the-board compensation program that modestly and uniformly rewards executives is a motivation killer that can quickly kill an organization's competitiveness