Exposing CEO Pay Excesses

Posted on March 23, 2007  Comments (4)

The politics of pay from The Economist:

Although barely one-tenth of the 2,000 biggest American companies have yet reported under the new rules, the tally of negative headlines is already mounting. “There are already plenty of examples of firms reporting chief-executive pay packages of millions of dollars more than expected,” says Paul Hodgson of the Corporate Library, a research firm. He reckons that the firms that have already reported are a representative sample likely to provide a good indication of the overall trend.

Thankfully, more of the ludicrous pay packages details are being made public and shame will force some changes (those approving these pay packages have to justify such reckless spending). Of course, some feel no shame no matter how egregious the situation. As I mentioned earlier, I would add excessive executive pay to Deming’s seven deadly diseases of western management. We need to drastically role back the luducrous pay packages.

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4 Responses to “Exposing CEO Pay Excesses”

  1. CuriousCat: Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay
    June 11th, 2007 @ 12:21 pm

    I continue to tilt at the robber barron CEO pay packages. Hopefully, at some point, the people approving these obscene pay packages can be shamed into stopping or replaced by people with some sense of decency…

  2. Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog » Tilting at Ludicrous CEO Pay 2008
    November 10th, 2008 @ 11:37 am

    As pay did become excessive, Drucker became a prominent voice against the unjust pay of CEO’s. From the Economist: In the late 1990s he turned into one of America’s leading critics of soaring executive pay…

  3. CuriousCat » Another Year of CEO’s Taking Hugely Excessive Pay
    April 6th, 2009 @ 10:33 am

    The widespread failure of ethical standards by an enormous number CEO’s (those taking from corporate treasuries as though it was their own personal bank account) is the problem (not a few individuals)…

  4. roman
    August 3rd, 2011 @ 1:54 pm

    Although all these companies and their boards of directors claim to be 100% capitalists, their inner dealings are 100% communist and dictatorial thereby excluding their shareholders and employees from questioning executive excesses and unwarranted bonuses.

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