Reward and Performance
Length and/or format: Essay 2000 words
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to assess your ability to evaluate approaches and trends in executive compensation management
Rarely a week goes by without some commentary on executive compensation. Debate inevitably focuses on excessive amounts and comparisons with the pay of average wage and salary earners
In this assignment, you are required to research trends in Executive Compensation. Based on this research, compare and contrast Executive Compensation practices in Australia and another country of your choice e.g. USA, UK, China.
You need to pay particular attention to ethical practices and one of the following issues
• Stakeholder/shareholder interests
• Corporate social responsibility
• Pay for performance
• Performance measures
• Excessive risk taking
• Long term/short term focus
Your research needs to cover “latest thinking” and journal articles need to have been published within the last 5 years.
ESSAY TYPE
• In this assignment, you are required to research trends in Executive Compensation. Based on this research, compare and contrast Executive Compensation practices in Australia and another country of your choice e.g. USA, UK, China.
• Any of the above issues
Example of an Essay Structure
Introduction – 100 Words
• Define Executive Compensation – 100 Words
• Outline trends we are seeing – 350 Words
• Provide examples of executive compensation practices in Australia and USA – 650 Words
• Define your topic of choice – 100 Words
• Relate the executive compensation practices being used in Australia and the USA to your topic of choice – 650 Words
• Conclusion – 100 Words
