THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN KENYAN BANKING INDUSTRY Dr. Josiah Aduda‚ jaduda@uonbi.ac.ke‚ Lecturer and chairman‚ department of Finance and Accounting‚ School of Business‚ University of Nairobi‚ Kenya and Leonard Musyoka‚ University of Nairobi Abstract Economic theory of executive pay has focused on the design of optimal compensation schemes to align the interests of hired managers and shareholders. Agency theory has identified several
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Top Executive Compensation Packages In the job market‚ while employees select their employers‚ employers also select their employees. One of the most important elements that employers might take into consideration is salary. Executive salary could be classified into two groups: the short-term salary and the long-term salary. Short-term salary mainly includes wage‚ insurance‚ welfare and bonuses. Stock incentive is one of the modern long-term salary types and the incentive system is used to solve
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Opening the Black Box of the Relationship Between HRM and Firm Performance Stockholm School of Economics in Russia Working Paper #07 - 101 OPENING THE BLACK BOX OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HRM PRACTICES AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A COMPARISON OF USA‚ FINLAND‚ AND RUSSIA CARL F. FEY Institute of International Business Stockholm School of Economics S-11383 Stockholm‚ Sweden Tel: (46-8)-736-9501 Fax: (46-8)-31-9927 Carl.Fey@hhs.se and Stockholm School of Economics Russia SERGEY MORGOULIS-JAKOUSHEV Stockholm
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Optimal Size Of A Firm The optimum size of a firm is a very subjective idea. The ways in which size can help or hinder a firm vary from which angle you a looking at the situation from. Size can have its benefits and its drawbacks‚ and each firm will have its own benefits and drawbacks that come from either increasing in size‚ or remaining small‚ and these will depend on the market in which the firm is in‚ the current economy‚ and in some cases the preferences of the manager(s). For example a
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employee undervalue the cost of benefit‚ why should a company not drop benefit and simply add more direct compensation” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain using relevant organizational examples. CONTENTS 1. Introduction 3 2. Findings and Analysis 2.1 What is employee benefit? 4 2.2 What is compensation?---- Critical analysis of compensation components and its function in an organization? 6 2.3 Total Reward Management 8 2.4 Critical
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The Relationship Between Positive Adolescent Attitudes Toward Reading and Home Literary Environment Kelly Partin Bowling Green State University Cindy Gillespie Hendricks Bowling Green State University While factors known to positively affect attitudes toward reading have been investigated‚ the relationship between attitudes toward reading and home literary environments‚ particularlywith older students‚ needs to be more fully explored. This investigation focused on the nature of the relationship
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doubt that employee compensation‚ which according to Dessler refers to all forms of pay or rewards going to employees‚ is the crucial factor in employee motivation. There are different two types of compensation: direct and indirect compensation. Direct compensation refers to monetary benefits offered and provided to employees in return for doing their job. The most common forms of direct compensation are wages‚ salaries‚ incentives‚ commissions and bonuses. Indirect compensation refers to pay in the
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long been a heated topic among business communities‚ especially the relationship between the level of CEO’s compensation and firms’ performance. Before the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley legislation (SOX thereafter)‚ which regulates the unethical wrongdoings‚ CEOs enjoyed unreasonable high remuneration despite of their mediocre performance. The overall focus of this report is to identify the relationship between CEO’s compensation and performance of the company‚ and figure out whether the Sarbanes-Oxley
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Jobs Responsibilities /Duties ^Top Managers CEO CIO CFO COO Vice President Corporate Head ^First-Line Managers General Manager Plant Manager Regional Manager Divisional Manager ^Middle Managers Office Manager Shift Supervisor Department Manager ^Team Leaders Team Leader Team Contact Group Facilitator Change Commitment
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organization‚ top managers are important persons to lead the company as a whole like Chief Executive Officers. A large amount of managerial researches has suggested that a firm’s top manager is the fundamental variable in determining whether the firm would succeed or fail (Torres‚ Harrison and Kukalis‚ 1988; Koene‚ Soeters Vogelaar and 2002). There are also many findings on the duties of being the top of the management hierarchy O’Toole‚ Galbraith and Lawler (2002) suggests that abilities of top managers
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