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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Incentive Pay"”.
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Three Essays on Executive Incentive Pay and Causal Inference in Corporate Finance
… rebal- anced each year to maintain the optimal incentive that implements a targeted effort. Thus,</p> <p>given previous year’s incentive, there exists an optimal adjustment that has to be made by the principal in order to maximize firm value. If contracts are optimally written and im- plemented, …
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A Study To Assess The Relationships Among Student Achievement, Teacher Motivation, And Incentive Pay
… the relationships among the awarding of career pay, teacher motivation, and student achievement. This study sought to answer the following questions: (1) Is there a difference in intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of those teachers who receive career pay as opposed to those teachers who do not …
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An evaluation of two performance pay systems on the productivity of employees in a certified public accounting firm.
… study examined the effects of switching from an incentive pay system solely based on productivity to a scorecard-based incentive pay system. Performance of staff and senior accountants was analyzed across three departments for a two-year baseline and a three-year intervention period. Results …
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Individual performance in a piecework setting: an analysis of employee differences
Incentive pay systems are of interest to both researchers and practitioners as a way to improve employee productivity and efficiency. Past research has considered the design of incentive systems, the effects of systems and costs/benefits to employers. Little consideration has been given to another …
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Iowa School Superintendents Perceptions of the General Effects of Phase III Plans
… recommendations for performance-based or incentive pay as a method for improving teacher performance. In Iowa, legislation has incorporated both performance-based pay and incentive pay for teachers into the state's Phase III program. The intent of Phase III is to improve teacher …
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Executive remuneration : considerations of South African remuneration committees
… no explanation for the variations in executive pay and research has been inconclusive about the factors which are used by remuneration committees to determine the pay of these executives. This research aimed to gain deeper insight into the determination of executive remuneration, including the …
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The impact of motivation on employee performance in an organization: case study of Zambia Airports Corporation limited, Lusaka.
… salaries, advancement of studies and other incentives such as job security and bonuses. Furthermore, training and development of any organizational human resource is one of the key motivating strategies among employees. Over and above, monetary incentives and the work environment have proved …
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The impact of motivation on employee performance in an organization: case study of Zambia Airports Corporation limited, Lusaka.
… salaries, advancement of studies and other incentives such as job security and bonuses. Furthermore, training and development of any organizational human resource is one of the key motivating strategies among employees. Over and above, monetary incentives and the work environment have proved …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… levels, and estimates the impact of a teacher incentive pay program on student achievement.
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Cape Town clothing workers' attitudes towards key aspects of and alternatives to regulation by the Bargaining Council
… current wage model, such as performance-based incentive pay; to explore the attitudes workers hold toward home-based informal factories; and to assess the attitudes of workers to worker cooperatives. Using semi- structured face-to-face interviews, 24 respondents (ten formal and 14 informal …
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Managerial Risk-Taking and CEO Excess Compensation
… Literature suggests a positive effect of CEO incentive risk and strong corporate governance on CEO risk taking. Furthermore, the strong governance mitigates excess compensation problem. Controlling for governance quality and incentive risk, I provide empirical evidence of a significant …
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Incentive Structures, Labour Performance, and Fruit Quality: Panel Evidence from a South African Deciduous Fruit Operation (2017–2019)
… including B1–C2 employees in a performance-based incentive scheme improves fruit quality in a South African deciduous fruit operation. Using a three-year panel (2017–2019) from five commercial farms managed by Crookes Brothers (Pty) Limited, the analysis isolates the association between incentive …
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Maintaining optimal CEO incentives through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing
… hypotheses that firms set optimal levels for CEO incentives, and that firms and CEOs jointly correct deviations from these optimal levels through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing. I investigate two equity-based CEO incentives, pay-for-performance sensitivity and risk-taking incentive. …
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Two Papers on "How Perceptions of Fairness and Influences of Social Capital and Source Credibility Matter to Compensation Committees And Investors"
… on a scale of 0 to 100 of revising executive incentive pay financial performance targets mid-compensation cycle.</p> <p>I find outcome fairness to shareholders and management significant influences on compensation committee member judgments. In addition, I found more experienced compensation …
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The Upper-Echelon Perspective of Firm Competitive Behavior: Empirical Evidence from the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry
… the moderating impact of executive bonus and incentive pay was largely supported. This dissertation contributes to both the competitive behavior and Upper-Echelon literatures. Notably, this dissertation adds to the very limited work that attempts to theoretically link and empirically test for …
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Three Essays on Corporate Finance and Labor
… higher skilled labor risk use substantially more incentive pay for both top executives and employees below the top rank. Those firms also ex ante offer a higher level of pay to skilled labor. Finally, we find that firms facing higher skilled labor risk invest more in strengthening employee …
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Improving teacher compensation : an exploration of teacher attitudes
… this concern. Some districts use financial incentives and performance awards to attract and retain teachers; however, these methods do not have the same impact when first introduced. Using a qualitative approach, the aim of this dissertation is to understand why financial incentives are not …