Talent Management - July 2008 - (Page 26)

recruitment & retention assessment & evaluation compensation & beneﬁts performance management learning & development succession planning [compensation & beneﬁts] by Kellye Whitney SEC Regulations and Executive Compensation Post-SEC rule revision, talent managers must balance compliance, competitiveness and shareholder responsibility to design compensation packages that attract and retain the best talent. T hanks to the less-than-stellar behavior of executives at companies such as Enron, WorldCom and Tyco, there is a general perception in the media that executive pay has gotten ahead of itself. In 2006, the SEC adopted revisions to its rules governing the disclosure of executive compensation, party transactions, corporate governance matters and compensation arrangements, among other things. The revisions, the ﬁrst since the early ‘90s, were necessary because the agency found pieces of compensation weren’t being disclosed or were not disclosed clearly. Adjustments were made to catch innovative ways of compensating senior executives, and as a result, talent managers and compensation experts are seeing a lot of change in executive-pay disclosure. “It began probably as early as 2000 with the blowups with Enron and other major companies,” said Ed Speidel, senior vice president at Radford Surveys and Consulting, a business unit of Aon focused on executive and broad-based pay. “Some of the actions around executive pay at that point in time have gotten worse,” he said. “Prior to Radford, I worked at other Fortune 500 companies’ boards and comp committees. [They] didn’t understand the interconnection of contractual beneﬁts, supplemental executive retirement-plan beneﬁts, changes in pay and long-term incentives and how they all come together to bring a much higher level of executive pay than anyone expected.” “The use of stock is essentially what the SEC is looking to protect. In the very recent past, the SEC has enforced regulations more because of problems that came up,” said Tom Casey, senior vice president at nGenera. “The Enron scandal is the best one. People were encouraged 26 July 2008 talent management magazine www.talentmgt.com http://www.talentmgt.com

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Talent Management - July 2008 Editor’s Letter Human Performance Leading Edge Learning Connections Guest Editorial Passive Candidate Recruiting: Evolving with a Changing Workforce How Do They Feel? Sec Regulations and Executive Compensation Performance Management: A Retail Perspective Train the Non-Trainer Management-Go-Round: Developing Future Leaders Netflix Creates Its Own Script for Talent Management Intuit Spotlights Strategic Importance of Global Employee Recognition Make HR a Profit Center: Automate Technology to Gather Tax Credit Data Offshoring and the Impact on Talent Management Advertisers’ Index Editorial Resources Full Potential

Talent Management - July 2008

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