ABSTRACT

Top Pay is an extremely topical and contentious area and compensation and benefits is a well-defined area of interest in HR. This book investigates how the field of top pay developed? Why is there so much interest in top pay? Why governments take such an interest? Separation of ownership from control. The issues of Institutional shareholding, globalisation, comparisons between countries,equity theory and government policy are all addressed

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

chapter |17 pages

‘Fat cat' pay

chapter |28 pages

Accountability, transparency and performance

comparing annual report disclosures on CEO pay across Europe

chapter |37 pages

Designing reward packages

chapter |16 pages

Equity incentives

chapter |23 pages

Remuneration committees