But Joanna Lack, the chief of performance for Camden city school district, where a testing scandal in the mid-2000s prompted security protocols to be strengthened, says she doesn't see a connection between cheating and support for opt-outs in her district.
"There's a huge pressure on chief executives for performance these days," said Joseph L. Bower, who specializes in management at the Harvard Business School.
HANOI, Vietnam — The ruling Communist Party ended a major congress Wednesday with the announcement of several changes in the country's hierarchy, and what amounted to an apology by the party's chief for the performance of the nation's leaders over the past five years.
Pay-for-performance chief executive compensation and free iPods for hardworking students "can extinguish intrinsic motivation, diminish performance, crush creativity, and crowd out good behavior," Mr. Pink writes.
The announcement came hours after Nancy Killefer withdrew as nominee for Chief Performance Officer for similar reasons.
If the objective in taking corporate boards to task for their relationships with compensation consultants is to ensure that chief executives are paid for performance, then we agree.
'We have to be competitive on pay and we have to pay for performance," chief executive Antony Jenkins - who has waived his own annual bonus - told the BBC.
Mr. Obama's choice for chief performance officer, Nancy Killefer, pulled her name from consideration because of unpaid payroll taxes for a household employee.
By 2009 and the stepping down of Nancy Killefer as nominee for Chief Performance Officer of the United States at the beginning of the Obama administration, at least ten top-level cabinet or other federal appointees had run into trouble over failure to pay the "Nanny Tax".
This study investigates whether the managerial ability of a chief executive officer (CEO) is associated with the CEO's pay-for-performance sensitivity (PPS) of the equity-based compensation.
Enable pay-for-performance.
