Hammett's workday men risk peril for trifling remuneration and never question the choice.
But the "vexed" and "toxic" question of remuneration, as Barclays chairman Marcus Agius put it, kept bubbling to the surface.
The Institute of Business Ethics has a question for remuneration committees on the eve of the AGM season: could you explain the outcomes laid out in your company's annual report to the man of the street?
They have to take a step back and ask: 'How should we go forward on this question of remuneration, what are shareholders' wider concerns and how are we going to address them?'" Investors compared Standard Chartered's approach with that of HSBC.
Concerns about reducing the individual radiologist's productivity, the question of remuneration for insourcing, increasing workload in facilities with no specialists, and not perceiving radiologists as doctors were listed as disadvantages of insourcing.
"The size of the rebound in incentives for top company bosses poses some questions for remuneration committees about the design of their incentives.
He spoke to the Telegraph only on condition that he was not asked questions about remuneration – a condition the paper felt should not be observed.
Questions on remuneration reveal substantial differences between doctors and the rest of the staff, with salaries of doctors more than four times that of registered nurses (a differential which increases when other sources are added).
The respondents in this study answered two questions about remuneration that could have influenced their decision to leave general practice: 'There were no financial stimulants to stay' and ' It was not necessary to continue working for financial reasons.' However, the answers to these questions were contradictory and therefore no conclusions could be drawn about the influence of remuneration.
On the question of preferred remuneration system, half the sample preferred a mix of salary and activity based remuneration (the median respondent would prefer a 50/50 mix).
99 It should be made clear first of all that, since the questions asked refer to remuneration rights for the purposes of the preceding question, they will be answered solely from the point of view of the reproduction right and of the right to the fair compensation provided for in Article 5(2)(b) of Directive 2001/29 under the private copying exception.
