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You feel like a deer caught in the headlights — but the worst thing you can do in that moment, compensation experts stress, is dismiss or downplay their artificial intelligence-powered research.

Executive compensation, benefits and well-being were among the areas respondents said they wanted to focus on.

In a previous Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) review, we took a broad look at the behavioral science of rewards (CIPD 2015) and we have also published various reports on the drivers and problems of excessive executive pay (CIPD n.d.).

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This figure drops to 3% when using total cash compensation, which includes short-term incentives such as bonuses for achieving immediate goals like sales targets, and to 2% when using total direct compensation, which includes long-term incentives like stock-based rewards.

The rule, titled “Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights,” follows Executive Order 14030, which was signed by President Joe Biden on May 20, 2021.

Knowledge only gets you so far; you have to actually execute.”