Originally Posted by
neville_nobody
This is getting more to the heart of our current predicament. There is no accountability between the board and senior management and as you suggest there is all the talk of "global competition" until we reach executive level and above when suddenly it disappears and we have to justify inflated salaries. Honestly there would be plenty of CEOs and management from third world countries who would have the ability to run any Australian Public company for 1/3 of what the current cohort get paid. One of the problems in Australia is the relationship between boards and CEOs is to cosy there needs to be more of a adversarial relationship and the Board needs to keep the management in check rather than some sort of "buddy" relationship which appears to be how it works now.
AND there is very strong data that shows there is NO correlation between executive salaries and the success of corporations- some of the biggest corporate disasters have been helmed by some of the best paid CEOs.