The monitoring role of independent directors in CEO pay-performance relationship: the case of Malaysian government linked companies

Chee-Wooi Hooy and Tee Chwee-Ming

Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2010, vol. 3, issue 2, 245-259

Abstract: This study looks into the pay-performance and monitoring issues in Malaysian government linked companies (GLCs). Our study utilizes 21 Malaysian public listed GLCs data from financial year 2001 until 2006. We adopt panel regression to study pay-performance relationship while the internal monitoring mechanism is measured by board independence. In our analysis, chief executive officer (CEO pay is regressed to individual performance as well as benchmarked against industry average. Generally, we document that the pay-performance relationship in Malaysian GLCs is sporadically significant, implying that CEO pay is not properly aligned to performance. However, pay-earning-sensitivity (EPS) is high and statistically significant when individual performances are benchmarked against industry average in GLCs with more than 50% independent directors (majority board). This implies that for Malaysian GLCs, a majority independent board is required to ensure effective monitoring on CEOs' performance.

Keywords: corporate governance; government-linked companies; director pay; performance; board structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/17520843.2010.498136

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