Comments on: Executive Living: Compensation Goes Up, Trust Goes Down http://www.ere.net/2007/02/16/executive-living-compensation-goes-up-trust-goes-down/ Recruiting News, Recruiting Events, Recruiting Community, Social Recruiting Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:00:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Deborah Jones http://www.ere.net/2007/02/16/executive-living-compensation-goes-up-trust-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-2511 Deborah Jones Wed, 21 Feb 2007 01:29:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/02/16/executive-living-compensation-goes-up-trust-goes-down/#comment-2511 CEO comp has risen in direct proportion to the risk assumed by those highest on the ladder. Companies now place as much weight on risk management initiatives and avoidance of litigation as they do on making a profit. CEO comp has risen in direct proportion to the risk assumed by those highest on the ladder. Companies now place as much weight on risk management initiatives and avoidance of litigation as they do on making a profit.

]]> By: Cancel Cancel http://www.ere.net/2007/02/16/executive-living-compensation-goes-up-trust-goes-down/comment-page-1/#comment-2490 Cancel Cancel Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:20:00 +0000 http://www.ere.net/2007/02/16/executive-living-compensation-goes-up-trust-goes-down/#comment-2490 This article is slightly misleading as total comp always rises in a recovering economy . . . however, the real problem with executive comp is the golden parachute packages that the execs exercise when they are let go/resign, etc. Shareholders have no transparency of these exit packages, and frankly, they are well out of hand. Expect the SEC to crack down on this further moving forward (Bob Nardelli's quarter-million USD exit package from HD really upset some people). This article is slightly misleading as total comp always rises in a recovering economy . . . however, the real problem with executive comp is the golden parachute packages that the execs exercise when they are let go/resign, etc.

Shareholders have no transparency of these exit packages, and frankly, they are well out of hand.

Expect the SEC to crack down on this further moving forward (Bob Nardelli’s quarter-million USD exit package from HD really upset some people).

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