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

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 wi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ericson, Richard N.
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, ©2010.
Subjects:	Incentives in industry. Executives > Salaries, etc. Chief executive officers > Salaries, etc. Stock options. Employee motivation. Employee stock options. Restricted stock options.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.