Essentials of Executive Compensation

Key Takeaways

• Understand the significance of executive compensation and its impact for organizations, shareholders, other interested stakeholders, governance frameworks, and the media.
• Identify the components of executive compensation, including the elements of a total pay package, incentive design considerations, and how these differ from other compensation practices and among publicly-traded, privately-held and not-for-profit organizations.
• Understand external reporting considerations including the anatomy of a proxy and how company strategy impacts compensation decisions and disclosures.
• Understand how an HR professional might utilize executive compensation expertise in their careers and what a role focused on executive compensation may offer.

What You Will Learn 

Learners will gain a great understanding of:

• The importance and history of executive compensation, and how design decisions can impact executive behavior, business performance, and stakeholder relationships.
• How and when executive pay is reported and know how to read and understand a proxy statement.
• Who the key players in executive compensation are (executives, shareholders, boards and committees, proxy advisors, management teams, consultants, outside counsel, accounting and tax advisors) and how they interact with each other.
• The basic technical aspects of executive compensation (e.g., elements of pay, typical pay package designs) and how and why these may vary based on company, industry, and business context.
• How corporate executive compensation teams are structured, what job responsibilities are, and what skills are required at each level.

Course Credits

WorldatWork Recertification:

• Course — 2 credits

CEUs:

• Course — 0.4 credits

HRCI Recertification:

• Course — 4 classroom hours 
  

SHRM Recertification:

• Course — 4 classroom hours
  
  

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