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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Pay-For-Performance"”.
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The Teacher Pay for Performance Phenomenon
… explore the link between teacher motivation and performance-based compensation. This topic has been a controversial issue over the last decade across the country. There is a critical need for more research on teacher pay-for- performance systems, especially as it relates to motivation, student …
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Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.
For many years, businesses in private industry have been utilizing and experimenting with various forms of performance-based pay. These innovations have been part of a continuing search by organizations for better approaches to administering pay. With the passing of the Civil Service Reform Act of …
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How different pay-for-performance remuneration plans affect executive performance
Orientation: The design of remuneration plans and pay-for-performance is recognised as a long-standing management practice. Almost all remuneration plans include incentive and bonus schemes in order to motivate the desired performance of individuals by rewarding them based on performance.Research …
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Pay-For-Performance for Missouri Public Schools: Are We Ready Yet?
<p> <p>Reform strategies in education have been administered far and wide all throughout history. Ideas such as longer school days, school choice, standardized testing, and changes to teachers’ salaries have all been studied and incorporated. Reform directives in education have been implemented …
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Evaluation of a pay-for-performance system at a South African university
This study evaluates a pay-for-performance (PFP) system implemented at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Joseph and Louw-Potgieter (2007) did a previous evaluation that found the PFP system at UCT worked partially for some Professional, Administrative and Support Staff (PASS). Thus, this study …
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Department of Defense National Security Personnel System : the transition to pay for performance
… This system will mark the most significant reform to civilian personnel management in 25 years. The DoD expects to implement the NSPS in a phased approach extending over two years, and is giving consideration to the Department of the Navy being the lead service. The NSPS will be built on best …
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An Experimental Investigation of Select Remunerative Factors in the "Pay-For-Performance" Paradigm
… and the effects these factors have on the pay-for-performance paradigm. The first study examines the influence of individual anchoring and the effects of private versus public decisions upon compensation awards by subjects role-playing as either an outside CEO or a non-CEO director. …
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A study of pay for performance in China's non-public sector knowledge-intensive industries
Pay for performance (PFP) has been widely studies in the western context; however it has been paid very little attention with respective to China, especially in non-public sector knowledge-intensive industries. Research related to PFP has been strongly controversial. It is argued that the …
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THE IMPACT OF INTERNAL REVENUE CODE SECTION 162(M) ON PAY FOR PERFORMANCE: A REEXAMINATION
… income tax deduction at $ 1 million per year for amounts paid to each of its top five executives, on CEO compensation level, CEO compensation structure and pay for performance sensitivity. I find that the average level of CEO salary decreased after the implementation of Section 162(m) and that …
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Federal Pay-for-Performance Reform and Organizational Discrimination: Lessons, Impacts, and Guidance for the Future
… or practitioner roles, know very well that pay systems within the federal government are in dire need of new ideas. The General Schedule was established 60 years ago with the passage of the Classification Act of 1949. Since that time, the federal pay system has done quite well in …
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Evaluation of a Prescription Drug Pay-for-Performance Program: Impact on Prescribing Trends, Budget, and Patient Outcomes
… Health plans have incentivized providers for patient care that follows evidence-based prescribing, including through pay-for-performance (P4P) programs. Research has suggested increased cost-sharing for prescription drugs is associated with lower adherence and higher utilization of other …
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Pay-for-Performance System in the Department of Defense: A Case Study of the National Security Personnel System
… too narrowly and prescribing too many procedures for filling those jobs, limiting the ability of the federal government to compete for and/or retain the best workers (Sunshine 2008, 1). The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2004 granted the Department of Defense the …
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An Evaluation of the Effects of a Pay for Performance Plan on Productivity of Employees of a Professional Services Firm
… examined the effects of a productivity-indexed pay for performance plan in a professional services firm. The new plan was implemented after productivity decreased under an existing plan. Performance of staff and senior level accountants was analyzed across three departments under a three-year …
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The Struggle for Power and Pay: Implications of Board of Directors' Power on Monitoring Effectiveness and Pay for Performance Sensitivity
… outsiders' and insiders' power bases relate to pay-for-performance by proposing and empirically examining a multi-dimensional model of board power bases: ownership, prestige, and structural. I argue that board structural and composition characteristics can be used as proxy indicators of board …
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Maintaining optimal CEO incentives through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing
… joint 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 …
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Essays in Corporate Finance
… of GPs are affected by their current funds’ performance not only directly, through carried interest profit-sharing provisions, but also indirectly by the effect of the current fund’s performance on GP’s abilities to raise capital for future funds. In the context of a rational learning model, …
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Corporate Governance and Strategic Behavior: A Study of Acquisitions and CEO Compensation Practices of Publicly-Owned and Family-Controlled Firms in S&P 500
… of competitive advantage that can generate rents for the firm (Gottschlag and Zollo, 2007). Drawing on agency theory, this dissertation tests whether the interest alignment premise manifests itself differently in the strategic behavior of family-controlled firms when compared to their nonfamily …
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Essays on incentives for innovation
… essays that examine the role of incentives for innovation in organizations. Chapter 2 studies the provision of incentives when workers explore new work methods in parallel. In such a setting under-exploration may result as workers attempt to free-ride on the new ideas of co-workers. Optimal …
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ESSAYS ON GAME THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
… chapter, we investigate the optimal contract for agents in a network and provide a new insight into "pay for performance relationships". We study the impacts of bridges on individual's equilibrium behavior in the third chapter. We construct an index to identify the key bridge players linking …
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Bank CEO Compensation, Bank Risks and the Financial Crisis Effect
… portfolio, off-balance sheet and (accounting) foreign exchange risks, from 2003 to 2006. These trends largely reversed during 2007 to 2009. During the 2007/9 financial crisis, banks experienced significant structural shifts in all risk indicators (except for capital and foreign exchange risks) …
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