"The competition for executive talent is fierce, making it imperative that executive compensation programs become an integral part of every company's strategic business plan. The Complete Guide to Executive Compensation provides in-depth coverage of current issues and trends in designing and administrating executive compensation packages that are strategically, economically, and culturally sound. It also includes both a historical review of key developments and a look ahead.".

"Written by renowned compensation and benefit expert Bruce Ellig, this book is a must read for the designers, approvers, and recipients of executive compensation. Consultants and in-house pay designers will find detailed examples (supplemented with over 350 figures and tables) to trigger their own creativity. Compensation committees and other approvers of executive pay plans will value the definitions and descriptions of various pay plans and the conditions under which they would be appropriate.

Executives themselves will find the book useful. Not only in better understanding their own plans, but learning more about other plans, both those they may only have heard about, as well as many that have not yet caught their attention."--BOOK JACKET.