Law firms also feel pressure from clients to retain senior women.
He said: "The vicious row over compensation has made it clear that RBS is unlikely to be able to retain senior staff if majority Government ownership persists.
"Both Commissioner Kelly and Commissioner Scoppetta felt it was a worthwhile investment that would improve their ability to retain senior managers," said Edward Skyler, the spokesman.
One local politician called the authority a "failed organization", after an auditor's report found PWSA failed to plan, respond to service calls or retain senior executives.
J. Davitt McAteer, the former federal mine safety chief who led the West Virginia inquiry, said in an interview that retaining senior Massey executives "certainly doesn't help make a dramatic and abrupt change in safety culture".
Officials at some of the companies had fiercely insisted that they needed to pay hefty salaries to retain senior executives and allow them to maintain a comfortable living standard, according to people close to the talks.
The Swiss bank attributed its latest misfortune in part to "new capital and regulatory requirements", but some say its weak performance is a result of the big salary increases it paid to retain senior staff during the financial crisis.
A1 Corporate Titles Inflated The tight labor market of recent years, corporate growth, mergers and acquisitions and the need to retain senior executives have led to the proliferation of high-powered titles, executive recruiters and compensation advisers say.
Catton accepted that NHS managers are trying to mitigate these issues by retaining senior staff as part-timers, and allowing staff to work more flexibly, but wanted to see more clinical staff being involved in decisions about staffing cuts.
But he lost his way some years ago, and the swelling crowd of influential critics of Mr Eisner has surely emboldened Comcast to make its bid hostile.Mr Eisner seems to have difficulty getting on with people and thereby retaining senior talent.
