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Monthly Archives: March 2009

March 2, 2009

Aligning Compensation Incentives with Corporate Objectives

– Broc Romanek, CompensationStandards.com

In this podcast, David Koenig, Founding Partner of Ductilibility, discusses how companies can align their compensation incentives with risk management objectives, including:

– How work regarding risk and pay ties into today’s environment
– How a compensation incentive system with objective performance metrics might actually lead to misalignment between an employee’s incentives and the company’s operational objectives
– Whether corporate codes of ethics are effective in preventing risky behavior, including the “risk manager’s dilemma”