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Introduction
- page 1
Management Compensation?
- page 2
Top Management
- page 2
Middle Management
- page 2
First-line Management
- page 2
The Total Compensation Package
- page 3
Base salary
- page 3
Salary structures
- page 4
Pay Policy Line
- page 4
Salary Ranges
- page 4
Broadbands
- page 4
Setting Base Salaries
- page 5
Job Evaluation
- page 5
Market Pricing
- page 5
Hybrid
- page 5
Survey Data
- page 6
Interactive Exercise
- page 7
Problem Statement
- page 8
Your Turn
- page 9
Pay-for-Performance
- page 10
Does Pay-for-Performance Work?
- page 11
Incentives
- page 12
Short-term Incentives
- page 12
Profit Sharing
- page 13
Long-term Incentives
- page 14
Equity Compensation
- page 15
Stock Options
- page 15
Restricted Stock
- page 16
Performance Share Plans
- page 16
Loans and Backdating
- page 17
Phantom Stock
- page 18
SARs
- page 18
Option Pricing Technique
- page 19
Deferred Compensation
- page 20
IRC 409A
- page 20
Supplemental Executive Retirement Plans
- page 21
Rabbi Trusts
- page 21
Secular Trusts
- page 21
Golden Parachutes
- page 22
Change in Control (CIC)
- page 22
Termination
- page 22
Perquisites
- page 23
Insurance
- page 23
Time off
- page 23
Determining and Approving Executive Pay
- page 24
The Role of the Board of Directors
- page 24
Reasonable Compensation
- page 25
Nonprofit Executive Compensation
- page 26
Rebuttable Presumption
- page 26
Say-on-Pay
- page 27
Risk and Compensation Practices
- page 28
Dodd-Frank
- page 28
Perceptions of Overpayment
- page 28
Comparing Similar Positions
- page 29
Reliability Statistics
- page 29
Comparing Similar Organizations
- page 30
Peer Analysis
- page 30
Summary
- page 31