Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
10-2013
Abstract
When former General Electric CEO, Jack Welch, retired with a US$417 million severance package in 2001, it sparked such outrage that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission eventually made it a requirement for publicly-listed companies to quantify pay agreements with top executives.
Keywords
Executives, contracts, severance package
Disciplines
Human Resources Management | Organizational Behavior and Theory
Copyright Owner and Holder
Copyright © Singapore Management University 2013
Licece/Creative Commons Licence
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Subject(s)
Chief executive officers, Labor contracts, Executive compensations
Citation
Singapore Management University.
Contracts protecting the CEO. (2013).
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/pers/62