Federal workers are more likely to have fat compensation packages of government-defined benefit plans and pensions.
Compensation packages should be decided upon by a committee consisting entirely of nonexecutive directors.
Daimler-Benz introduced convertible bonds in 1996 and has continued to develop variable compensation packages.
One option that is gathering support in Europe is mandatory shareholder votes on executive compensation packages.
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So its stock price determines the compensation packages of money managers big and small.
But hauling in these big wigs will do little to alter their compensation packages.
City scores help multinational companies calculate compensation packages for the employees they dispatch overseas.
If shareholders are happy they need to increase the benefits and compensation packages of their employees.
Shareholders in Citigroup voted against planned compensation packages for Vikram Pandit, Citi's chief executive, and its directors.
Across Europe, governments routinely set performance targets and compensation packages - all without much of an outcry from anyone.
These people have a lot more at stake than can be quantified in any survey of corporate compensation packages.
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The solution, says Chand, is to carefully structure compensation packages to reward ambition.
Although apologists justify exorbitant compensation packages as the workings of the free market, the truth is the very opposite.
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Yes, they demand huge compensation packages, but only for the purpose of knowing how high they rank in your eyes.
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We've already seen in the last year several examples of high profile compensation packages being restructured due to this process.
The people who managed investment firms are paid large compensation packages to ensure that this culture is spread throughout the firm.
Later this spring, insurance company Aflac will give its investors the ability to have a voice in its executive compensation packages.
This abuse of the city treasury came to light only after the Los Angeles Times reported compensation packages that beggared belief.
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In the current mistrustful investment climate, companies have to go out of their way to explain how compensation packages are designed.
Shareholder support for proposed executive compensation packages last year was 30% lower at companies where ISS recommended against the plan.
It would be wrong, though, to attribute too much to compensation packages.
"The one thing that can keep a negative halo around an airline is bickering by relatives over compensation packages or lawsuits, " says Harbison.
In the NBC interview, recorded Saturday, Obama slammed executive compensation packages in the industry as "out of line" compared to Japanese auto companies.
Such a plan would have curtailed lobbyists for the insurance industry, huge compensation packages for health-care chief executive, advertising, marketing and administrative costs.
So limits on bank compensation are fighting an uphill battle, and bankers will find ways around them via creative accounting and clever compensation packages.
But most compensation packages are linked not to long-term value creation and skillful management of long-term risks, but to quarterly or annual bottom line performance.
Morgan Private Bank, who advises individuals (and also some companies) on compensation packages, believes that it is preferable to combine options and stock in the package.
For those of us with some international perspective, it has long been obvious that the compensation packages American CEOs award themselves are little short of daylight robbery.
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Utilities are clearly aware of their public images and how their CEO compensation packages might be construed against a backdrop of hard economic times and rising utility rates.
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Four in ten (42 percent) are expecting a bonus based on performance, and many also enjoy perks, privileges, expense accounts, equity and stock options in their compensation packages.
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