Policymakers, industry regulators and investors must team up to mandate that corporations provide CEOs with financial compensation for reducing carbon footprints.
Labor violations disproportionately affect Black Americans.
Katie Falkenberg/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images
Rebalancing labor relations so that workers are empowered would be an effective way to address racial wealth disparities and atone for the legacy of slavery, a scholar argues.
It’s hard for boards to make good decisions about what to pay someone who has a seat at the table.
Shannon Fagan/The Image Bank via Getty Images
Since New York mandated new executive compensation rules in 2013, the state’s nonprofit CEOs have been getting paid less than expected while working more.
In this 2019 promotional photo from McDonald’s, then CEO Steve Easterbrook, fourth from the left, celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Big Mac with family members of the McDonald’s employee who invented the popular sandwich. Easterbrook has since been dismissed from McDonald’s for inappropriate behaviour.
(Peter Wynn Thompson/AP Images for McDonald's)
Bad behaviour and toxic culture at a company can be corrected if the organization’s board of directors states clearly the values they are looking for in a CEO.
Paying a chief executive $24 million because he has exceptional abilities is a con we’ve perpetrated on ourselves.
Though Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce might be outspoken on some progressive issues, he supports the system that pays him 300 times that of the average Australian.
Mick Tsikas/AAP
Paying these CEOs more when oil prices rise means they’re rewarded for having good luck.
The gulf between what Domino’s CEO Don Meij earned in 2017, A$36.8 million, and those who deliver the pizzas is extraordinary, so is the CEO worth that much?
Paul Miller/AAP
The evidence suggests the impact of CEOs on company performance isn’t enough to justify their sky-high pay, which is really based more on a culture of power and privilege.
Executive pay is an issue that often causes public uproar. But it’s not as greed-driven as we might think.
Razvan Chisu/Unsplash
High CEO compensation angers the public, particularly when it doesn’t seemed tied to performance. But as a whole, trends in executive compensation are consistent with fundamental economic forces.
It’s the government’s responsibility.
David Dibert / Unsplash
Vice-chancellors often benchmark their salaries against comparable positions in other corporate sectors, a symptom of the trend towards the corporatisation of universities in Australia.
So many of the factors influencing low wages growth for Australian workers are also an important influence on CEO pay, although not necessarily in the same way.
ANGELA BRKIC/AAP
Data shows that growth in total CEO pay has outstripped average Australian wage growth in every year of the last five years. But perhaps we need to look more closely.
In 2005, regulations were introduced that required US firms paying CEOs with stock options to list them in financial statements.
Brendan McDermid/Reuters
Jenni Henderson, The Conversation and Josh Nicholas, The Conversation
Business Briefing: the science of business decision making.
The Conversation14.3 MB(download)
Research shows paying people more can actually lead to worse decisions. Getting the best results from executives requires understanding our complex motivations
Australia Post CEO Ahmed Fahour earned $5.6 million in 2015-16.
AAP/Tracey Nearmy