03290nam 2200613 450 991046497800332120200520144314.00-520-95859-410.1525/9780520958593(CKB)3710000000106197(EBL)1682911(SSID)ssj0001194143(PQKBManifestationID)12448030(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001194143(PQKBWorkID)11150161(PQKB)11222543(MiAaPQ)EBC1682911(DE-B1597)520345(OCoLC)879026032(DE-B1597)9780520958593(Au-PeEL)EBL1682911(CaPaEBR)ebr10867302(CaONFJC)MIL602433(EXLCZ)99371000000010619720140528h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrIndispensable and other myths why the CEO pay experiment failed and how to fix it /Michael DorffBerkeley, California ;Los Angeles, California ;London :University of California Press,2014.©20141 online resource (327 p.)Includes index.0-520-28101-2 Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --1. Introduction --2. The Puzzles of CEO Compensation --3. The Corporate Personality Myth --4. Market Mythology --5. Incentives Mythology --6. Performance Pay Mythology --7. Causation Mythology --8. Predictability Mythology --9. Alignment Mythology --10. Moving Forward --Notes --IndexProdded by economists in the 1970's, corporate directors began adding stock options and bonuses to the already-generous salaries of CEO's with hopes of boosting their companies' fortunes. Guided by largely unproven assumptions, this trend continues today. So what are companies getting in return for all the extra money? Not much, according to the empirical data. In Indispensable and Other Myths: Why the CEO Pay Experiment Failed and How to Fix It, Michael Dorff explores the consequences of this development. He shows how performance pay has not demonstrably improved corporate performance and offers studies showing that performance pay cannot improve performance on the kind of tasks companies ask of their CEO's. Moreover, CEO's of large established companies do not typically have much impact on their companies' results. In this eye-opening exposé, Dorff argues that companies should give up on the decades-long experiment to mold compensation into a corporate governance tool and maps out a rationale for returning to the era of guaranteed salaries.Chief executive officersSalaries, etcExecutivesSalaries, etcUnited StatesCompensation managementUnited StatesElectronic books.Chief executive officersSalaries, etc.ExecutivesSalaries, etc.Compensation management658.4/072Dorff Michael1970-1041028MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464978003321Indispensable and other myths2464293UNINA