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Giving without merit: nuns in a post-merit Buddhist economy
… has been driven by the religious concept of merit, a concept which is regarded as producing adverse economic effects for nuns. However, scholars have begun to identify the absence of belief in merit in Buddhist organisations operating outside Asia and to consider the implications of this …
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Merit in Principle, Merit in Practice: An Investigation into Merit-based Human Resources Management Through the Lens of Title 5-exempt Federal Organizations
This dissertation research investigates whether merit-based principles and practices are embedded into the HRM systems of 19 Title 5-exempt federal organizations. Title 5-exempt organizations, such as government corporations, serve as a vehicle for exploring the question of what constitutes merit …
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Plan de Negocios: MERIT financia tu educación
MERIT – Es una fintech que provee financiamiento a personas que deseen estudiar carreras tecnológicas virtuales de rápida salida laboral. A diferencia de un financiamiento tradicional en el que el prestamista recibe el dinero, el programa financiero se basa en el pago de las cuotas mensuales de …
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Teachers' Perceptions of Merit Pay in Georgia
… study explored the perceptions of implementing a merit pay plan as reported by elementary teachers in three rural Georgia school districts, one of which was participating in the Race to the Top (RT3) initiative. The study examined the perceptions of 109 elementary teachers in regard to merit pay …
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A Study of Cognitive Merit of Teachers
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Merit pay at an institution of higher education
… to answer the question:"To what extent is the merit pay system at a state-supported university consistent with selected tenets of operant conditioning?" The population for this study consisted of one state-supported institution of higher education in the Commonwealth of Virginia that has a …
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Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.
… began its form of this concept entitled, 'Merit Pay'. Although many studies have examined uses in the areas of pay and total compensation, and even in the narrower area of performance-based pay, these studies have focused primarily on the private sector. This is not surprising since 'merit …
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The philosophical, behavioural and academic merit of uMaskandi music
This document on umaskandi is about a vocal musical style that was created and nurtured by the Zulu people. Externally and, at a distance, the style may not appear to be artistically captivating, praiseworthy, and linguistically significant. It is but only on closer scrutiny that the aesthetic …
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Writing Instruction: Students' Perceptions of Its Meaning and Merit
The purpose of this study was to determine if there were qualitative differences between better and weaker writers with regard to previous writing instruction; perceptions of writing assignments; writing strategies; valuing of writing; and benefits of feedback from conferences, peer evaluations, …
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Factors influencing instrumentality beliefs in a merit pay environment
… which may influence instrumentality beliefs in a merit pay environment. Specifically, the purpose was to investigate the relationship of: (1) of perceived performance appraisal accuracy, merit increase satisfaction, trust in top management, and trust in supervisor to instrumentality beliefs, (2) …
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Justification and Merit: the Interpretation and Evaluation of the Concept of Merit in Modern Catholic Theology in Relation to Luther's Doctrine of Justification
… against the Church's traditional doctrine of merit.</p> <p>Catholic theology, however, refused to follow the Reformer in this radical break with tradition. When about a decade after theoutbreak of the Reformation it had become clear that the teaching of justification formed the main point of …
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Coverage optimization using a single satellite orbital figure-of-merit
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003.
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Virginia elementary principals' perspectives on merit pay for classroom teachers
… elementary principals concerning the concept of merit pay for classroom teachers. The problem for investigation was: what are the attitudes of these principals toward merit pay for classroom teachers? To identify these perceptions, a fixed-response-form-questionnaire, Survey on Perceptions of …
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Construction of even length binary sequences with asymptotic merit factor 6.0
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Mathematics, 2010
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The Waltzing Dead : The Merit of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
When Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was published in 2009, the parody of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that now takes place in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, few expected the novel to be more than a joke. However, it instead inspired a phenomenon that wholly consumed …
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The effect of quantum confinement on the thermoelectric figure of merit
The thermoelectric figure of merit (Z) determines the usefulness of a material for thermoelectric energy conversion applications. Since the 1960's, the best thermoelectric material has been Bi2Te3 alloys, with a ZT of 1.0 at a temperature ofT = 300 K. The advancement of nano-scale technologies has …
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Employee perceptions of performance appraisal acceptability in a merit pay setting
… Health System performance appraisal system in a merit pay setting. To accomplish this, the study investigated variables having a positive relationship on employee perception of performance appraisal acceptability, fairness and accuracy. The study had three objectives: (1) integrate the current …
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Merit pay in the public sector: bright promise or false hope
Merit pay refers to the awarding of differential amounts of financial rewards to deserving employees based on their individual performances as measured by Performance appraisal and Rating. The idea is that such a practice would act as a spur to all employees -- both deserving and undeserving-- to …
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