Question

The topic is CEO Compensation. This topic represents contemporary Human Resources issues facing business (and you indirectly) today. The paper should define the issue and provide appropriate background information to support your conclusions.

•the business issues associated with the topic

Why does this matter? How might the topic impact other areas of the business?

•Identify and apply relevant theoretical constructs/legal issues, etc

Review of legal issues and theoretical constructs relevant. Use data points, factoids, etc

•Identify appropriate solutions and their potential impacts

i need to write a paper. if someone can help me with the requirements above needed for this topic. i need to write a 5 page paper by tomorrow. if someone can help with an outline and ideas. Thanks !

Answer 1

The requirement is for an outline and ideas around CEO Compensation.

The following points could be examined

• CEO Pay has been increasing between 2-6% over the last few years for S&P 500 companies. More than base pay the trend is to link CEO pay closer with overall business performance - turnover, share prices, profitability etc.
• Also over time the gap between CEO pay and the median salaries of employees within the company seems to be increasing across the US and some other countries. This is creating an entire discussion around pay equity as a top HR issue across organizations.
• The nature of growth and structure of CEO pay has also caused a lot of trouble with respect to corporate governance issues as well, especially in emerging markets like India over the last few years, where the number of cases of corporate frauds and company defaults/bankruptcies as a result has risen alarmingly. There have been quite a few cases of high profile corporate frauds resulting from the linkages of CEO pay being overtly linked to company performance in the short term.
• There is also a lot of discourse around how justified extremely high CEO salaries are in light of the growing inequality in capitalist economies which can be closely looked at
• High CEO compensation associated with appointment of marquee CEOs also seemss to drive up enterprise value for publicly held companies and is one of the strategies used by the corporate world to boost enterprise values and ratings without really improving underlying fundamentals of the company.