The following table lists the executive employee compensation for Home Depot in for 2008. Home Depot Executive Compensation

Source: Home Depot (2008)

DISCUSSION

It is clear from the long-term goals set out by Home Depot that the desire to build ongoing relationships with its employees is one of the primary focuses of Home Depot in terms of its business strategic goals. Home Depot believes that goals should be set and attainable although not automatically realized but requiring focus and commitment and excellence in order to reach these attainable and highly lucrative goals with cash payment and on a certain foreseeable date in the future and even in the very near future.

Home Depot has integrated and continues to integrate into the community in which it is located and employing individuals in those communities and for those employees who are committed to the organization the rewards exist and in handsome measure as an incentive to drive performance and productivity. The principles of management in the Home Depot corporation are of the nature that enables the employee to 'buy-in' to the ideal...

Website. Proxy Statement and Notice of 2008 Annual Meeting of Shareholders on May 22, 2008 at 9:00 A.M. The meeting will be held at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia. Online available at http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/HD/498648960x0x211969/F02C8AEA-0E55-4984-810A-B7E665233F93/hd2008proxy-pz8azw2.pdf
Home Depot (2008) Fortune 500. Rank 22. Home Depot vs. Top 10 Online available at http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2008/snapshots/2968.html

News Release (2008) Home Depot. 20 Nov 2008. Online available at http://ir.homedepot.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=349871

Quarterly Earnings Archive (2008) Home Depot. Online available at http://ir.homedepot.com/results.cfm