Gaining Acceptance for Remuneration

One of the core elements of corporate leadership – pay for performance – is soon to be paralyzed. But, as we propose here based on analysis of pay-for-performance of the FTSE100 companies, this mustn't be the case. If performance is measured relative to peers like in sports, executive compensation becomes rule-based, transparent and can even be supervised by an independent third party. If this is achieved, remuneration committees can pay executives what they deserve – even if the amounts are high