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Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior from feathering their own nests at th
Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior from feathering their own nests at th
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2016-05-26
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Over the past decade, American companies have tried hard to find ways to discourage senior from feathering their own nests at the expense of their shareholders. The three most popular reforms have been recruiting more outside directors in order to make boards more independent, linking bosses’ pay to various performance measures, and giving bosses share options, so that they have the same long-term interests as their shareholders.
These reforms have been widely adopted by America’s larger companies, and surveys suggest that many more companies are thinking of following their lead. But have they done any good? Three papers presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management in Boston this week suggest not. As is usually the case with boardroom tinkering, the consequences have differed from those intended.
Start with those independent boards. On the face of it, dismissing the boss’s friends from the board and replacing them with outsiders looks a perfect way to make senior managers more accountable. But that is not the conclusion of a study by Professor James Westphal. Instead, he found that bosses with a boardroom full of outsiders spend much of their time building alliances, doing personal favors and generally pleasing the outsiders.
All too often, these seductions succeed. Mr. Westphal found that, to a remarkable degree, "independent" boards pursue strategies that are likely to favor senior managers rather than shareholders. Such companies diversify their business, increase the pay of executives and weaken the link between pay and performance.
To assess the impact of performance related pay, Mr. Westphal asked the bosses of 103 companies with sales of over $ 1 billion what measurements were used to determine their pay. The measurements varied widely, ranging from sales to earnings per share. But the researcher’s big discovery was that bosses attend to measures that affect their own incomes and ignore or play down other factors that affect a company’s overall success.
In short, bosses are quick to turn every imaginable system of corporate government to their advantage, which is probably why they are the people who are put in charge of things. Here is a paradox for the management theorists: any boss who cannot beat a system designed to keep him under control is probably not worth having.
What is the purpose of the large companies in recruiting outsiders and putting them on the board of directors?
选项
A、To diversify the business of the corporation.
B、To enhance the cooperation between the senior managers and the board directors.
C、To introduce effective reforms in business management.
D、To protect the interests of the shareholders.
答案
D
解析
事实细节题。定位句指出“在过去的10年里,美国公司力图寻求方法以阻止资深管理者以牺牲股东利益为代价损公肥私的行为。为此美国采取了最流行的三种改革措施,如招录外来董事以使董事会更加独立,”由此我们可推知招录外来董事的目的是为了保护股东的利益。其中to feather their ownnests意为“构筑自己的窝”。所以D)为正确答案。
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