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Offering Retirement Benefits to Employees: Pros and Cons

HR Digest

These plans are usually designed to give deferred compensation for single or more executives in an organization. Rabbi trusts: This is a non-qualified deferred compensation arrangement where the pension amounts are transferred directly to an irrevocable trust that is managed for the benefit of executive employees.

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Fast Friday with Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com (and P. Diddy.

Roundtable Talk

On the flip side, people who I know who don’t love their jobs but make lots of money seem to spend a lot of time throwing around words like “golden handcuffs” and seem to be perpetually stressed and unhappy. When it comes to long-term career happiness, money and titles wear off pretty quickly. Thanks Mark.

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Talent Management Best Practice 4 – Know Your Artificial Employment Retainers

Strategy Driven

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

Whoever called them golden handcuffs wasn't joking. Said one sales executive, "Those years could have been spent working on problems that mattered to me. Lamented one investment banker, "I dream of quitting every day, but I have too many commitments." I wish I had quit earlier. You can't ever get those years back.".

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Compliance is crucial for pharmaceutical makers such as Abbott and Amgen – a “ Form 483 ” warning from an FDA inspector can shut down a drug facility in an instant and even land top executives in jail. When one customer is responsible for the lion’s share of your sales, it’s like golden handcuffs.

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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

Ren Zhengfei asked Fei Min, his executive vice president of R&D, to entertain the delegation. This employee shareholding system is referred to within Huawei as the “silver handcuff.” ” It is a system that is different from the more common stock option arrangement, which is often termed the “golden handcuff.”

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. Executives never stayed long. Executives. No executive development program was held at Enron.