Top executive pay should not be linked to performance as the work they do is difficult to measure and such pay may actually be damaging to companies, according to a recent article by two academics in the Harvard Business Review.…

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Chemring Group, a specialist designer and manufacturer for the aerospace, defence and security industries, that was forced to engage with shareholders last year following a high level of dissent at its AGM over its remuneration practices may still not have

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Leading mutual funds and pension funds so far have taken little action to curb the pay of chief executives (CEOs) in the US according to a report by As You Sow, a non-profit organisation that promotes environmental and social corporate …

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Providing a simple and fair approach for remuneration committees trying to meet the challenge of getting executive pay right is the aim of a board briefing paper recently published by the Institute of Business Ethics (IBE).

The IBE said the …

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Global technology Google continues to be in the spotlight  over its £130m tax deal with the UK authorities. The UK parliament’s Public Accounts Committee, which first looked into the issue of corporate tax deals in 2012, has held a session

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Ensuring women get promoted to senior positions and receive higher bonuses should form part of the strategy to ensure that the gap between the pay of women and men is closed,  according to a report produced by Deloitte and sponsored …

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The Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University has recently conducted a representative survey of 1,202 Americans to understand public perception of chief executive (CEO) pay levels among the 500 largest US publicly traded companies.

The survey found that …

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Despite recent policy changes by the last UK Coalition Government chief executive (CEO) pay has still been rising and, according to a recent report by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, current executive reward practice is based on misplaced …

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By the first Tuesday of 2016 (5th January) the UK’s top bosses made more money in 2016 than the average UK worker earns in an entire year, according to think tank, The High Pay Centre.

FTSE 100 chief executives …

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Nearly $A30 million in payouts to departing chief executives (CEOs) helped to increase the pay of the 300 highest-earning Australian CEOs by 5%, who for the first time will receive an average pay packet of more than $3 million a …

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