Saturday, September 22, 2012
Pay Your CEO What He Is Worth
Because a new study has put paid to the old shibboleth that if you don't pay them a whole lot they will run away. In fact it is fair to ask them, Who would want you?
New research by Charles M. Elson, director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware, and Craig K. Ferrere, one of its Edgar S. Woolard fellows, begins by attacking this conventional wisdom. Mr. Elson and Mr. Ferrere conclude, contrary to the prevailing line, that chief executives can’t readily transfer their skills from one company to another. In other words, the argument that C.E.O.’s will leave if they aren’t compensated well, perhaps even lavishly, is bogus. Using the peer-group benchmark only pushes pay up and up.The "peer group" crap is a major corporate scam that results in a rising tide floating all turds or to be a little more contemporary, no loser left behind.
“It’s a false paradox,” Mr. Elson said in an interview last week. “The peer group is based on the theory of transferability of talent. But we found that C.E.O. skills are very firm-specific. C.E.O.’s don’t move very often, but when they do, they’re flops.”
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