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It is a known fact to everyone that many people holding high positions in
organizations all around the world are getting high salaries. The debate about the high
salaries of executives are still going on after several decades. However, Paredes says that,
Indeed, behavioral corporate finance presupposes that managers are hard-working
and well-intentioned. More to the point, studies have shown that greater accountability
can actually exacerbate cognitive.EXPLAIN HOW QUOTE IS RELEAVNT: to
executives not getting high salaries; or maybe Paredes believes they deserve those
salaries??. Short-term incentives typically only benefit the CEOs, according to some rules
and have several performance factors included according to the role of the executive
(CITATION).The executives are compensated for both cash and companys shares
according to the vesting instructionsWHAT IS THIS? E.G.: Vesting instructions are a
set of rules.This is a witness to the decline of a healthy fair marketing field, in which
CEOs keep all the spotlight on themselves by taking all the credits for themselves, though
this significantly addsto the stockholders value in large organizations; it results in
harming society.Such power is given to these CEOs to the point that they alone decide on
their salaries, in addition, because of their rank financially, it gives them the ability to
make political changes in a society, although that is far from their knowledge basis.
According to Business Week, in 2003, CEOs in 365 U.S. companies earned salaries 301
more times higher than that of what factory workers earned. Between 1991 and 2001, it was
reported that CEOs got a 340% increase in their salaries, along with extra bonuses and grants,
meanwhile factory workers payonly increased by a pathetic 36%(Moriarty, 2005).CEOsdo
not deserve these high payments because they are not compatible with the hardworking
general populations salary, in addition, these sorts of payments raise ethical issues of
fairness, equality and justice.
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The first reason for CEOs not deserving their high payments goes back to the concept
of proper principality, which is a main issue of debate, not only within the media world, but
also amongphilosophers. Corporate disgrace is a common phenomenon seen almost
everywhere nowadays; the 21st
century seems to be composed of innumerous stories of CEOs
caught performing fraud. The notorious Enron Scandal at the end of 2001 in the U.S.,
caused a reaction by who? The nation? That campaigned against the widespread of fraud
by pushing the nation to insist that universities teach mandatory ethic classes within the
business curriculum. **Ideas arent flowing; need to see article.**The goal was to enforce
stronger control on the CEOs and to hold them accountable for any
fraudscommitted(CITATION). CEO scandals and frauds not only affect specific companies,
but they also dampen the whole industry, and worsen the economy. Mel Perel says, The
complex interactive alliance between boards of directors and CEOs compromises rational
decision-making about CEO compensation, with the Enron affair offered as an illustration of
what can go wrong when dishonest CEO actions combine with lax board
oversight.European Journal of Scientific Researchsurvey quoted that Unethical business
deal, which is a negative trait, is an expression of self-centeredness. Another name for self
centeredness is systematic selfishness (Ochulor et al., 2010).
The second reason for why executives do not deserve their high earnings is because of
what this does to the economy. Unnecessarily highly paid CEOs cause companies to go out of
business, along with rejecting internal equity; both of which benefit society negatively. All
throughout American history, CEOs have been the sole reason for the fall of many American
companies due to their unreasonable demand of payment (CITATION). In fact, companies
who are controlled by higher paid CEOs donot do any better or worse than companies who
are controlled by less paid CEOs(CITATION). That statement brings us to the second reason
as to why higher paid CEOs affect our economy today through the lack of internal
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equity.Internal equity is when companies focus on comparing high paid CEOs with that of
everyone else in the organization. As, author, (insert name) states, some CEOs earn tens
of millions of dollars a year for doing the same job as less paid executives in other countries
who have done just as well, if not better, for a fraction of the price(CITATION).Its a
reasonable question for anyone to ask whether a is CEO pay money well earned? (Babones,
2012). The main economic problem behindexecutive compensation design is that firm owners
need to align the incentivesof the executives to their own intereststypically to maximize
firm value (Jarque, 2008).
Third , It is obvious when comparing CEOs incomes to the average employees pay
that it is, without a doubt, unreasonable. They are not being paid what they deserve, which is
unfair whereas company pays their CEOs. A number of surveys occurred since last decades
that presented the clear evidences that CEOs faces 200% more strain and pressure than the
workers and employees in the managerial positions in the same company, which was not
accepted by the most of the workers and the business critics on the global. CEO
compensation cannot justified caused by high difference between CEO salaries and the salary
of a standard worker. She also says that high CEO salaries "bad stewardship of resources"
(Newton, 2000).She also added that the main thing go wrong with the CEO high
compensation, it is awful governance for people to take more than they can use, and unfair
that some people should be earning 43,700 times what other people earn, particularly when at
least some of those other people are starving. According to Francesco Guerrera noted that
CEOs committed that they are overpaid. He also claims that, "The issue is particularly
sensitive because the gap between rich and poor in America has reached its widest point in
more than 60 years".
On the other hand, many believe that CEOs are overpaid due to the services they are
given to the organizations, that a best CEO can change the performance of the company to
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positive, so that a better compensation is required to attract the best talented ones. Also the
CEOs are partly accountable for the interests of the nation economy. If these CEOs tends the
companies to a financial crisis, their shareholders should suffer the consequences of the loss
of money they invested. As for the size of the paycheck, not everyone is qualified to run a
billion dollar Multinational Corporation. The reality is that being a CEO is incredibly hard
and not many people are qualified(Browning, 2008).Kaplan and Rauh (2008) initiate that as
CEO pay has greater than before considerably since the early 1990s, the pay of other experts
and fortunate groups has augmented by as a minimum as much. CEOs are paid due to the
value they added to their organizations. Like compensation system will give a clear image
about what is more important.
In conclusion, while they are in a publicly held corporation, mainly not the owner,top
CEOs and Executives are mostly without doubt overpaid. Definitely it is unfair that the top
people takes all compensations while the average worker treats underpaid, because the tops
are getting over paid for all the hard works done by the people at the bottom who receives
little benefits. CEOs will never overpaid for doing the same job they were doing before, if
their pay is analyzed by what they contribute to the economy. The consequences are
enormous like it will affected to the nation economy badly and also unemployment between
the youths.
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