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GM Takes Care of its Hourlies
General Motors is still digging out from the onslaught of legal bills, settlements and recall costs of its faulty ignition-switch debacle that’s been directly linked to at least 51 deaths so far. Costs...
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CEOs Pay the Price for Scandal
Whether it’s a companywide pattern of unseemly actions or one rogue employee’s dirty deeds, corporate misconduct happens. And, when it does, the chief executive has to answer for it. Theoretically,...
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A Closer Look at Executive Compensation
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants the link between executive pay and a company’s financial performance to be clearer. The SEC hopes it took a step in that direction this week, when it...
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Employers Worry About Pay-Ratio Perceptions
Results of a recent poll by New York-based Towers Watson show it’s not the mechanics of complying with the new CEO pay-ratio-disclosure rule — such as data gathering, getting the right sampling,...
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Do CEO Stock Options Mean Trouble?
It’s the season for fretting about chief executive compensation. Annual proxy statements for most public companies are in. The numbers have been crunched. Now it’s time for the hand-wringing. But there...
View ArticleThe Motherhood Tax at Work
New research out of the United Kingdom shows the gender-pay gap widens significantly after the birth of a child, otherwise known as the “motherhood tax.” According to a new report from the Institute...
View ArticleBenchmarking and Executive Comp
Executive-pay packages often don’t include a comparison of company performance and its competitors are regularly approved by boards of directors, and many have wondered why. New research by University...
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Commander-in-Chief or CEO?
From Truman to Trump, a handful of U.S. presidents have made their way to the Oval Office via the business sector. If a recent Korn Ferry Institute survey offers any clues, it might be a while before...
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Paying CEOs to Fail
Scott MacDonald thinks the contract language and hiring processes for chief executive officers need to change. As he sees it, some CEOs are great leaders who deserve their seemingly extravagant...
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Inquiries, Apologies and HR Lessons
Last month, we reported on an investigation into Barclays CEO James Staley’s handling of a whistleblower’s complaint at the British banking and financial services giant. How did Staley find himself on...
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