EMPLOYEE LAY-OFF

Threaded Discussion Questions

Threaded Discussion Questions

Introduction

Executive compensation is structured by some organizations to give their executives, the amounts ranging from hundreds of thousands of dollars to millions. However, it is a common behavior that organizations have to terminate a large number of employee or laying off employees, for giving top executives bonuses during the same year. The paper presents response towards the following questions:

Can organizations justify high salaries while firing or laying off large numbers of employees?

What role does equity theory play in executive compensation and employees' perceptions of executives pay?

Discussion

Answer 1:

Terminating large number of employees and laying off large ...