Executive privilege

When you compare executive compensation to household income, you noticed executive pay is not tied to performance, the average executive pay keep going up with no penalize from the board. “In the United States, the pay of CEOs at publicly traded companies went down in real terms by 46% between 2000 and 2011, although it bounced back—as did corporate profits—in 2012, while still remaining well below the 2000 level.” (Vanessa Sumo and Hal Weitzman, 2013). CEO dishonesty behavior widespread and…

maximized efficiency and reduced costs in a sustainable way. No wonder, the ABM WEEK 2016 plenary "How to be more productive?" aroused great interest among the audience. The session was coordinated by Francisco Coutinho Dornelas, assistant to the executive management of ArcelorMittal South America Flat Carbon, and moderated by Albano Chagas Vieira, Chairman of the ABM Board of Directors. "On the occasion, I could see that the mining and metals industries have been doing their homework and are…

WCPA searching for Executive Functioning By Robin Dobrusin and Christopher Shedyak Literature: Weekly Calendar Planning Activity (WCPA) Author: By Joan Toglia, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA Theory Model: Cognitive Rehabilitation Objective: A performance-based measure of executive function (EF), and cognitive ability. Materials Needed: A weekly calendar broken into hourly increments with sub divisions into 15 min increments, scrap paper, pen or pencils, a score chart (provided in the book WCPA)…

Background and Significance In the past half century, the world populous has dramatically shifted from rural environments into urban centers. In 1950, as little as 30% of the world 's population resided in urban centers. Now, that proportion has risen to 50% and is predicted reach over 70% by 2050 (“World Urbanization Prospects: The 2014 Revision, Highlights”). This shift in the world 's populous has been termed urbanization, which is the increase in number of cities and amount of people that…

1.0 Introduction In today’s modern society, it is vital that in order for organisations to be successful, they must focus on building competent employees who have aligned themselves with the strategic direction of the organisation. Further to this, employees must be able to fulfil their own personal agendas in order to have job satisfaction within the organisation. In order to succeed in building a successful organisation, a deep look needs to be taken into the processes of recruitment and…

Involved Parties As acting CEO, it would be logical to believe that Bill holds all of the power and he can essentially steer Prime Media in the direction that he believes would be the most flourishing. However, this is not the case because a chief executive such as himself would have been chosen by a board of directors. The board is responsible for allocating goals, directions, and priorities of the firm to the CEO (Jugenheimer & Kelley, 2009). The case study does not specify if the board is…

evidence, Erard shows that bilinguals are better cognitive thinkers. His research reveals that going from language to language is easier. (This is the same for multitasking, and focusing on certain tasks, while later transitioning with ease.) Their executive functions were more mature, and the effects of aging were lessened. Since language knowledge improves brain health, the mind lives longer alongside multiple languages or dialects. Bilingualism in children proves this point, since children…

Knowing what makes up executive pay is an important aspect in making the connection between compensation and incentives to the principal-agent problem. Executives might be more interested in pursuing their own well-being such as the executives of Enron. Frydman and Jenter suggest that if the executive’s interests are not aligned with the interests of the firm then that can be extremely devastating to a company (page 7). An executive might make a decision that will better benefit…

The relationship between management monitoring and firm performance Introduction From previous years, corporate governance (CG) reforms provided a significant important function comply with regulations. The reforms does play an important role in improving transparency and accountability that appear in three key areas which are benefits in the provision of quality financial reporting, reduction in management overconsumption and improved management monitoring (Psaros 2009, p25). There are numerous…

Brittany Serkus Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents Georgian Court University Relationship between Media Multitasking and Executive Function in Early Adolescents The recent development of media technologies has made great changes to the way individuals consume media content. With convenient access to the media, individuals are more likely to overuse these technological services, resulting in increased media saturation. Having access…