"The Enron Effect: The American Public’s Hostile Attitudes Toward Top Business Managers"
Humphrey Taylor
Harris Interactive, October 2002.
The current wave of corporate scandal has had a detrimental effect on public opinion towards business practices in general and top management compensation specifically. The report on a poll that was conducted between September and October 2002 highlights the responses of more than 2,000 adults nationwide. Eighty-seven percent of those polled believe that most top company managers are unfairly compensated for the work they do, most often at the expense of ordinary workers. The poll also found that another two-thirds of those polled feel that workplace rewards are less fairly distributed than they were five years ago.
