Many multinational companies treat bonuses or long-term incentives on a common global basis, but set basic pay locally.
"The point is clear in the German boardrooms: They need to have long- term incentives to compete globally, " says Rainer J.
The base salary, short-term and long-term incentives, as well as other payments and benefits for all main-board directors, should be published.
Stock options and other long-term incentives are becoming an important part of the overall reward for top executives all around the globe.
The UK's Corporate Governance Code should be extended to ensure sufficient long-term incentives are incorporated into the pay of executives and non-executive directors, he suggested.
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Last year, 10% of the 30 companies that make up Frankfurt's DAX index, Germany's equivalent to the Dow Jones Industrials, offered some kind of long-term incentives.
Kvaerner, for one, is still committed to using long-term incentives as a tool to hire and retain the best executive talent and to align management's and shareholders' interests.
ICL, a computer-services company with about half its 22, 500 employees in Britain and the rest scattered through 40 countries, Katharine Turner is designing a global scheme of management bonuses and long-term incentives.
"The companies interested in long-term incentives, mostly foreign subsidiaries, are now accepting that they have to do it on a cash basis, with the cost consequences that entails, " says Robert Sperl, a compensation consultant at WatsonWyatt London.
These long-term incentives, which have been widely used in the Netherlands for the last decade, can make up anywhere from 10% to over 50% of an executive's total compensation -- at the CEO level, options can be worth more than the salary-plus-bonus cash compensation.
Employees with long-term equity incentives have seen their stakes wiped out, and may be hard to retain.
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Rather than viewing this as necessitating the long-term continuation of incentives, however, we are researching how to implement incentives in ways that inculcate persistent habits.
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The authors say a long-term policy on incentives is essential.
If this budget agreement scores badly on long-term fiscal prudence and incentives to growth, it fails miserably on other basic tests of good fiscal policy.
Seven-year contracts to remove the uncertainty of changeable government schemes are coupled with incentives to get people into long-term jobs and keep them there.
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The leaders are hoping for progress on issues like increased Internet access, "welfare to work" incentives for the long-term unemployed, cutting red tape, and progress towards a single EU financial market, which would mean cheaper borrowing for firms, better returns for savers and cheaper insurance policies.
They need to provide meaningful jobs programs and hiring incentives that target the long-term unemployed.
So, kickstarting the economy into long-term sustained growth with pro-growth tax policy, reduced government waste and other economic incentives will generate more revenue than will increasing capital gains taxes, which would discourage such economic growth.
Incentives are guided by the relatively long-term thinking that first brought Ford to the city in 1990s.
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Nonetheless, he appears to offer at least the glimmer of a sensible, long-term Republican tax agenda: low rates, fewer exemptions, and better incentives, especially for the poor.
But over the long term, an all-of-the-above strategy requires the right incentives.
And another key part of our work is to line up the incentives, so that everyone has a stake in the long-term success of the program.
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His remit is to find ways to align bankers' incentives more closely with their employers' and shareholders' long-term fortunes, and to look at the role of independent directors.
And we create incentives for all Americans to save now for future and long-term health care needs by improving health savings accounts and flexible spending arrangements and creating new tax benefits to offset the costs of long-term care premiums.
Mann also noted that ETF market makers are participating in equity markets freshly rebuilt on volume-based incentives, not exactly the kind of bait that would attract long-term holders in passive index investments.
Compensation and performance management represent major opportunities for analytics, by crafting highly specific programs that provide just the right kind and amount of incentives, monetary and non-monetary, short-term and long term, private and public.
Among the ideas Mr Miliband talked about were tax incentives for companies that make a contribution to the economy through training and long-term investment.
One way to overcome the myopia is to use artificial incentives and punishments to move the impact of health-related activities from the long-term to the short-term.
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Government officials have suggested doctors could be offered cash incentives and work alongside employment advisers to reduce the numbers out of work because on long-term sickness.
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