Compensation of Executives and Firm Performance – Evidence from the United Kingdom between 2010 – 2015 (Non-financial Listed Companies)

he purpose of this paper is to scrutinise whether there is an association between the company’s corporate governance structure and the remuneration of the CEO and whether companies who have poor future performance have weak governance structures in place in the United Kingdom between 2010 – 2015. This will be further scrutinised to test the theory of whether firms with companies with weaker governance structures have greater agency problems; that CEO's at companies with greater agency problems excerpt greater compensation, and that companies with greater agency problems perform worse.