ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC. ANNUAL INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN FOR SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS (as amended December 3, 2003)
Exhibit 10-i-1
ROCKWELL AUTOMATION, INC.
ANNUAL INCENTIVE COMPENSATION PLAN FOR
SENIOR EXECUTIVE OFFICERS
(as amended December 3, 2003)
1. Purposes.
The purposes of the Annual Executive Compensation Plan for Senior Executive Officers (the Plan) are to provide a reward and an incentive to the Corporations Senior Executive Officers who have contributed and in the future are likely to contribute to the success of the Corporation, to enhance the Corporations ability to attract and retain outstanding persons to serve as its Senior Executive Officers and to preserve for the Corporation the benefit of federal income tax deductions with respect to annual incentive compensation paid to Senior Executive Officers.
2. Definitions.
(a) Applicable Net Earnings. For any fiscal year, the net income before provision for domestic and foreign taxes based on income of the Corporation, determined in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
(b) Board of Directors. The Board of Directors of Rockwell.
(c) Committee. The Compensation and Management Development Committee designated by the Board of Directors from among its members who are not eligible to receive an award under the Plan.
(d) Corporation. Rockwell and its consolidated subsidiaries.
(e) Covered Employees Performance Fund. An incentive compensation fund for each fiscal year in which the Plan is applicable from which awards may be made under the Plan, which shall be equal to 1% of the Applicable Net Earnings for that fiscal year.
(f) Rockwell. Rockwell Automation, Inc.
(g) Senior Executive Officers. Rockwells chief executive officer on the last day of each fiscal year and four other executive officers (as defined in Rule 3b-7 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) which the Committee shall designate on or before the last day of that fiscal year. No member of the Corporations Board of Directors who is not also an employee of the Corporation shall be eligible to participate in the Plan.
3. Determination of Applicable Net Earnings and Covered Employees Performance Fund; Allocation of Potential Awards.
(a) After the end of each fiscal year, the independent certified public accountants who audit the Corporations accounts shall compute the Applicable Net Earnings and the amount of the
Covered Employees Performance Fund for that fiscal year. Those computations shall be reported to the Board of Directors and the Committee.
(b) There shall be allocated from the Covered Employees Performance Fund for each fiscal year potential awards to each of the Senior Executive Officers equal to the following respective percentages of the Covered Employees Performance Fund for that fiscal year:
Chief Executive Officer-35%; | ||
President and Chief Operating Officer-20%; | ||
Other Senior Executive Officers-15%; |
4. Awards.
(a) After the computations, reports and allocations prescribed under Section 3(a) have been made, the Committee shall determine, in its discretion, the amounts, if any, allocated to the Senior Executive Officers pursuant to Section 3(b) to be awarded from the Covered Employees Performance Fund for that fiscal year; and the form, terms and conditions of awards, including whether and to what extent awards shall be paid in installments.
(b) Without limiting the generality of Section 4(a) the Committee may, in its sole discretion, reduce the amount of any award made to any Senior Executive Officer from the potential award allocated to that Officer under Section 3(b), taking into account such factors as it deems relevant, including, without limitation: (i) the Applicable Net Income; (ii) other significant financial or strategic achievements during the year; (iii) its subjective assessment of each Senior Executive Officers overall performance for the year; and (iv) information about compensation practices at other peer group companies for the purpose of evaluating competitive compensation levels so that the Committee may determine that the amount of the annual incentive award is within the targeted competitive compensation range of the Corporations executive compensation program. The Committee shall determine the amount of any reduction in a Senior Executive Officers award on the basis of the foregoing and other factors it deems relevant and shall not be required to establish any allocation or weighting formula with respect to the factors it considers. In no event shall any Senior Executive Officers award under the Plan exceed the amount of the Covered Employees Performance Fund allocated to a potential award to that Senior Executive Officer.
(c) The Committee shall have no obligation to disburse the full amount of the Covered Employees Performance Fund for any fiscal year. Amounts allocated but not actually awarded to a Senior Executive Officer may not be re-allocated to other Senior Executive Officers or utilized for awards in respect of other years.
(d) Not more than 10% of the aggregate amount of incentive awards to be awarded for any fiscal year, as approved by the Committee, including under this Plan, shall be awarded to any one person nor more than 50% to the ten persons receiving the highest awards, including awards under this Plan.
(e) The Corporation shall promptly notify each person to whom an award has been made and pay the award in accordance with the determinations of the Committee.
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(f) A cash award may be made with respect to a Senior Executive Officer who has died. Any such award shall be paid to the legal representative or representatives of the estate of such Officer.
(g) No person who is eligible for an award under the Plan for any fiscal year of the Corporation shall be eligible for an award under any other management incentive compensation plan of any of the Corporations businesses for that fiscal year.
5. Finality of Determinations.
The Committee shall have the power to administer and interpret the Plan. All determinations, interpretations and actions of the Committee and all actions of the Board of Directors under or in connection with the Plan shall be final, conclusive and binding upon all concerned.
6. Amendment of the Plan.
The Board of Directors and the Committee shall each have the power, in its sole discretion, to amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time, except that:
(a) No such action shall adversely affect rights under an award already made, without the consent of the person affected; and
(b) Without approval of the shareowners of Rockwell, neither the Board of Directors nor the Committee shall (1) so modify the method of determining the Covered Employees Performance Fund as to increase materially the maximum amount that may be allocated to it or (2) after the first 90 days of any fiscal year, amend the plan in a manner that would, directly or indirectly: (i) change the method of calculating the amount allocated to the Covered Employees Performance Fund for that year; (ii) increase the maximum award payable to any Senior Executive Officer for that year; or (iii) remove the amendment restriction set forth in this sentence with respect to that year.
7. Miscellaneous.
(a) The Corporation shall bear all expenses and costs in connection with the operation of the Plan.
(b) The Corporation, the Board of Directors, the Committee and the officers of the Corporation shall be fully protected in relying in good faith on the computations and reports made pursuant to or in connection with the Plan by the independent certified public accountants who audit the Corporations accounts.
8. Effective Date.
Upon approval by the shareowners of Rockwell, the Plan shall become effective as of October 1, 1995.
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