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Showing 1 to 20 of 176 for “"Dismissal"”.
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Writing assessment's "debilitating inheritance": Behaviorism's dismissal of experience
… project, I examine the legacy of behaviorism's dismissal of experience on contemporary writing assessment theory and practice within the field of composition studies. I use an archival study of John B. Watson's letters to Robert Mearns Yerkes to establish behaviorism's systematic denial of …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and CEO Dismissal
… techniques to predict performance-induced CEO dismissals, demonstrating that ML models significantly outperform traditional statistical models in out-of-sample predictive accuracy across multiple performance dimensions. Using SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) values, the study decomposes …
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Dismissal threats and the efficacy of performance-based incentives
… experiments to examine how the presence of a dismissal threat may affect the efficacy of other incentives used by firms. Using theory on contrast effects, I argue that the mere presence of a dismissal threat changes employees’ response to additional incentives such that performance-based …
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Dismissal of Tenured Teachers in Illinois from 1990 to 2008
In Illinois, school boards that initiate dismissal proceedings against a tenured teacher without a clear understanding of teacher dismissal case law risk the possibility that an underperforming teacher could be reinstated to a teaching position. The purpose of this study was to examine the history, …
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Incapacity, disability and dismissal : the implications for South African labour jurisprudence
Disability in South African labour law is reduced to incapacity. An evaluation of disability and incapacity was made to advocate a clear conceptual break between the two concepts. Also, that disability should be grounded in a social model paradigm of disability which was a materialist critique of …
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A study of the congressional hearings on the dismissal of General MacArthur
<p>The eye witnesses against MacArthur were members of the Truman Administration. Acheson and Marshall were the principal critics of MacArthur’s stand. Secretary Acheson testified that MacArthur had done a fine job in Japan and our allies agreed without policy there. Acheson replied to the alleged …
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The Impact of Dismissal of Non-Tenured Teachers on Principals in Tennessee.
… encourage or coach teachers to resign prior to dismissal, dealing with "lame duck" teachers between notification and the end of the school year, and writing positive letters of recommendation for teachers they have decided not to renew. These questions were addressed through questionnaires and …
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Stakeholder management reputation and its effects on CEO dismissal and CEO compensation
… the reputation for stakeholder management on CEO dismissal. I propose that a reputation for ""avoid harm"" stakeholder management is more beneficial to alleviate the negative effects of poor financial performance on CEO dismissal. The second study examines the effect of the organization’s …
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‘When is dismissal an appropriate sanction for misconduct? and who has the last say?’
… South African courts have tested the fairness of dismissals, for misconduct. South African Labour history has been marred by confusion and inconsistency in relation to the test to be adopted in determining the fairness of dismissals. This has been so, because there have been two dominant schools …
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Principals' Perceptions of Incompetent Teachers: Incidence Rates, Characteristics, and Barriers to Dismissal in Missouri
… of incompetent teachers and barriers to their dismissal to help school leaders better understand, and hopefully reverse, the negative impact caused by incompetent teachers. The three goals of this study were to develop a more complete understanding of: 1) characteristics that cause teachers to …
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Is South African labour law for dismissal based on operational requirements unduly onerous for employers?
An international perspective on retrenchment based on the application of international labour standards (ILO 'Termination of Employment Convention 158' and ILO 'Termination of Employment Recommendation 166'.
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Resolving Dismissal Disputes: A Comparative Analysis of Public Arbitration Bodies in South Africa and England
… an effective and preferable means of resolving dismissal disputes. A coherent and cooperative working environment is not always possible in the developing workplace today. Thus, it is critical that an employer and employee are able to resort to effective means of dispute resolution when …
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Effects of anechoic vs. reverberant sound-field, subject gender, and outlier dismissal on the real-ear attenuation of hearing protection devices
… Standard SS 882151 (1981). The impact of outlier dismissal on the results of REAT tests of HPDs was also investigated and found to have minimal impact on the results obtained in this experiment. However, this result is most likely case-specific and it is doubted that any generalizations can be …
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A study of tenured teacher dismissals in Virginia, 1987-1990
The teacher dismissal process is of critical importance to educators involved in both administrative and teaching positions. The legal prerequisites, opinions, and cases have been frequently reviewed and presented in countless studies. This study was designed to examine the dismissal process from …
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Atleidimo už darbo drausmės pažeidimus ir darbdavio iniciatyva, nesant darbuotojo kaltės, atskyrimas /
Master's thesis analyzes the differences of dismissal cases when the employment contract is terminated on disciplinary grounds and on employer’s initiative without the employee's fault. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, three parts and a conclusion. The first part of master’s thesis …
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A Study of the Impact of Section 24 A on the Identification, Remediation, and Dismissal of Incompetent Tenured School Teachers in Illinois
This study examined the following research question: Since the implementation of Section 24 A in 1986, is it now easier for Illinois school districts to identify, remediate, or dismiss incompetent tenured school teachers?
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Teacher incompetence: a compilation of the legal grounds used in federal and state cases involving the dismissal of tenured public school teachers
… federal and state courts in cases involving the dismissal of tenured public school teachers for alleged incompetence from 1958-1982 to determine a judicial definition of teacher incompetence. In addition, the study attempted to provide an historical analysis to determine if the reasons that …
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