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We need to change more than pay for executives to do better

  • Written by Natalia Nikolova, Senior Lecturer in Management, University of Technology Sydney
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The pay of executives of a company, whether in salary, bonuses or other types of remuneration, is usually justified as an incentive to improve the financial performance of a company. This has led to ever more complex performance packages with increasing percentage of variable, performance-based payments.

But what is increasingly evident is that...

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