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Business Definition for: Executive

  • an employee in a position of senior responsibility in an organization. An executive is involved in planning, strategy, policy making, and line management. The term executive can also be used as an alternative to manager, consultant, executive officer, or agent.

Wiktionary Definition for: Executive

  • #Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect
  • #A title of a chief officer or administrator

Additional Resources

Executive Summary As A Guiding Light
Certainly the most significant part of any business plan is its executive summary. The executive summary is not just an introduction to the business plan. The executive summary is the business plan in miniature. It stand alone, almost as a kind of business plan within the business plan. It should...
Tags: Executive Summary, Business Plan
White papers 2000-10-01
Insider's Guide to Executive Coaching
While most people have heard of executive coaching, few have personal experience working with a coach. In this paper, the author presents his view of the profession and process from seven years of working as an executive coach. There are plenty of references that describe the various types of executive...
Tags: International Data Group, coach, benefit
White papers 2005-08-01
Business Coaching Improves Executive Performance
Business coaching is a partnership between the coach and the client. It is a level where the coach and the client quite effortlessly become a part of great results, in the quickest possible time. Coaches are generally counselors, who discuss the problems with the clients and help them solve the...
Tags: Performance management, coach, performance, consulting, partnership
White papers 2007-01-01
Charming The Worker Bees
From the executive summary: ‘Narrowing the gap between executive and non-executive employee compensation may not be as expensive as one thinks. The gap between executive and employee compensation continues to widen. Executive perks are becoming perkier, but the non-executive employees are seeing the same, if not worse, benefits packages year...
Tags: Benefits, Iowa State University, employee compensation, compensation, worker
White papers 2003-01-01
How to Become an Executive Coach
Executive coaches claim that they can improve organisational performance by transforming the way people relate. The best of the bunch will charge a person £2,000 a day for their troubles - but profess they are worth every penny. So what are executive coaches and how can an individual become one?
Tags: Reed Elsevier Inc., Executive, Performance Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
White papers 2004-11-16
Time Off is Money
This paper gives an overview of the insurance action taken by the company in respect to the people working. If a finance executive noticed a cost of operation was steadily escalating every year, to the point where it averaged 15% of total payroll, the executive might make controlling the growth...
Tags: Treasury & Risk Management, inflation, payroll, insurance
White papers 2003-06-01
How to Present an Executive Summary
How to Present an Executive SummaryHow to write an Executive summary.The basic idea is OK, but - paragraphs 1, 2 and 3?? If it is more than one paragraph all up its probably too long. Perhaps you need a second category - the Extended Executive Summary?Try substituting the...
Tags: Executive Summary
Discussion threads 2007-08-16
The Brave New World Of Executive Compensation And Benefits
Executive compensation and benefits refer to the rewards and incentives given to the employees of an organization in addition to their fixed salary. They include fringe benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans. The paper examines the executive compensation and benefits scenario and discusses current trends of the same....
Tags: Benefits, HEALTHCARE, payroll solutions, executive compensation, compensation, benefit, health insurance, incentive, health care, strategy
Presentations 2003-02-11
Leaving Your Footprint
From the executive summary: ‘Everyone knows the value of first impressions, but last impression may be the most important of career. Whether it is a celebrated planned retirement or an inglorious firing, sooner or later, every association executive will be the central player in an executive transition. Executive transition is...
Tags: leadership, firing, career, board
White papers 2003-11-01
Considerations On Hiring Senior Management Employees
From the executive summary: ‘Recruiting is a challenge in this labor drought, and recruiting executives is even more taxing. Researches indicate that companies are about to be engaged in a war for senior executive talent that will remain a defining characteristic of their competitive landscape for decades to come. Most...
Tags: Recruitment & Selection, recruiting, talent, hiring
White papers 2003-01-01
Executive Coaching
Executive coaching provides leaders with the knowledge, strategy and tactics, operations and systems skills that are the tangible components of a growing company. Executive Consulting improves a leaders abilities, relationships and health that are the intangible components of managing and motivating people. Read on to know more.
Tags: Leadership, leader, health care, knowledge, strategy
White papers 2003-01-01
Innovative Employee Compensation Methods To Motivate Employees
From the executive summary: ‘Executive compensation is hot. Compensation consultants and the variety of program packages they offer are increasing exponentially. In contrast, regular employees are getting shafted when it comes to compensation issues. The non-executive workers feel ignored and frustrated as they see the gap between executive and employee...
Tags: Benefits, Iowa State University, employee compensation, compensation, worker
White papers 2003-01-01
The Art of the Executive Summary
The Art of the Executive SummaryThis is really a great materialHow true and thank you very much! It reinforced my knowledge of creating executive summaries.ThanksI have seen executive summaries which often require seperate summaries themselves. This article is an excellent piece of practical tips to be kept in mind...
Tags: Sales force management, Executive Summary
Discussion threads 2007-07-25
Role of Out-Of-Money Options in Executive Compensation
Executive stock options remain one of the most widely used tools to tie managers' compensation to performance. The use of stock options in executive compensation has risen dramatically over the last decade. This paper examines the issuance of out-of-money executive stock options. The paper identifies a typical option, characterize the...
Tags: Stock options, Benefits, Investment, Financial accounting, New York Stock Exchange, stock option, compensation, incentive, stock, performance, tool
White papers 2002-04-01
ING NZ Appoints Aussie Executive CEO
ING New Zealand has appointed Helen Troup chief executive, a promotion from her current role as executive director of life risk at ING Australia.Ms Troup will lead the funds management and real estate businesses at ING NZ.Current chief executive Marc Lieberman has resigned, stepping down on July 31.© 2008...
Tags: CEO, ING Group, ING NZ, ING New Zealand, Real Estate, Business Operations, NZPA
News items 2008-06-24
IRS Eyeing Executive Pay
The Securities and Exchange Commission isn't the only regulator taking a closer look at executive compensation. The Internal Revenue Service will be scrutinizing executive pay this tax season too, as part of its continuing effort to force more companies to treat fringe benefits as wages for income and employment tax...
Tags: CFO Publishing Corp., Internal Revenue Service, Executive Compensation, Taxes, Free Trade, Financial Planning, Finance
White papers 2006-04-10
Time To Exorcise Executive Stock Options?
Pay-for-performance is a compensation plan wherein the employees or top executives are paid according to delivered shareholder performance. In recent years, the executive compensation scheme in organizations has come in for a lot of criticism. Everyone has panned dispensing of executive stock options. The main argument against executive stock options...
Tags: Benefits, Marakon Associates, pay-for-performance, compensation, shareholder, performance
White papers 2003-01-01
The Conference Board Report on Executive Compensation Consulting: Mercer's Point of View
Corporate governance reform continues to focus on executive compensation. The most recent addition to this discussion comes from The Conference Board, which has published Executive Compensation Consulting, a Research Working Group on Best Practices. The Conference Board convened executive compensation consultants including Mercer and human resource executives to identify best...
Tags: payroll solutions, executive compensation, Mercer, consultant, compensation committee, best practice, board, conference, corporate governance, compensation, hiring, Human Resources
White papers 2005-11-11
The Future Of Executive Pay
It's in the cards that tax and accounting regulations will eventually change so that executive pay techniques especially stock options will not be tax and accounting advantaged. While executive compensation, planning has been easy with looking for loopholes and all once preferential tax and accounting treatment was lessened, creativity and...
Tags: Taxes, Benefits, Free trade, Corporate governance, Operational accounting, HR.com, executive compensation, company performance, compensation, accounting, tax, Human Resources, pay-for-performance, board, stock option, technique, stock, performance
White papers 2003-01-01
Executive Compensation, Incentives and Refocusing
It has been suggested that stock-based forms of executive remuneration may be necessary to motivate managers to downsize their companies. This paper examines the link between executive remuneration and refocusing using a dataset on voluntary divestments by UK firms over the period 1985 to 1993. Divestment is analyzed using both...
Tags: Workforce management, divestment, downsizing, incentive, compensation, stock
White papers 2002-08-07
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