Researches on company directors' remuneration and its links with firms' performance and corporate governance have drawn wide attention as stakeholders are interested to find out whether directors received the right ...Researches on company directors' remuneration and its links with firms' performance and corporate governance have drawn wide attention as stakeholders are interested to find out whether directors received the right package of remuneration and whether it is always in line with the firm's performance and corporate governance policy. However, there is a lack of study examining the impact of specific board committee on directors' remuneration, particularly in emerging capital and financial market. This study, involving 120 Malaysian public listed companies, aims to examine this association. The study employs descriptive analysis, Pearson's correlation test and multivariate stepwise statistical technique. The result of the study indicates that there is a positive relationship between directors' remuneration with board executive committee, remuneration committee, nomination committee and corporate governance committee. The result also indicates negative relationship between directors' remuneration with employees share option scheme committee. However, all these associations are not significant, except ownership structure that is used as a control variable. This result prompts a need to reexamine the effectiveness of corporate governance practice through establishment of board committee in determining directors' remuneration.展开更多
文摘Researches on company directors' remuneration and its links with firms' performance and corporate governance have drawn wide attention as stakeholders are interested to find out whether directors received the right package of remuneration and whether it is always in line with the firm's performance and corporate governance policy. However, there is a lack of study examining the impact of specific board committee on directors' remuneration, particularly in emerging capital and financial market. This study, involving 120 Malaysian public listed companies, aims to examine this association. The study employs descriptive analysis, Pearson's correlation test and multivariate stepwise statistical technique. The result of the study indicates that there is a positive relationship between directors' remuneration with board executive committee, remuneration committee, nomination committee and corporate governance committee. The result also indicates negative relationship between directors' remuneration with employees share option scheme committee. However, all these associations are not significant, except ownership structure that is used as a control variable. This result prompts a need to reexamine the effectiveness of corporate governance practice through establishment of board committee in determining directors' remuneration.