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Showing 1 to 20 of 85 for “"performance goals"”.
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Three essays on informed trading
… that compensation shocks due to missing relative performance goals prompts more opportunistic insider trading. I use a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of missing relative performance goals on insider trading. I find that CEOs who narrowly miss relative performance goals and …
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Organization Features and School Performance
… predicting schools meeting district or state performance goals. The school organization features were organizational complexity, shared decision making, and leadership behavior. The dependent variable was school performance, operationally defined as a principal's yes response or no response to …
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The Spillover Effects of Motivational Processes in a Dual Task Setting
… study set out to examine whether negative goal-performance discrepancy (GPD) feedback for one task could have a negative effect on goal-setting associated with an unrelated, distinct task. A series of hierarchical regression analyses were conducted. Results show that large versus small negative …
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A hypothesized, general causal model of a gainsharing program
… how gainsharing works to affect organizational performance. Six top managers at Commonwealth Paper (a pseudonym) described how they believe their gainsharing program works to affect company operations and performance. From their verbal descriptions, a site-specific causal model was created. This …
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Erfolgsfaktoren zur Implementierung eines erfolgsabhängigen Vergütungssystems für Innendienstmitarbeiterinnen und Innendienstmitarbeiter von Lebensversicherungsunternehmen
… factors for a successful implementation of a performance-based compensation in the life insurance industry in Germany. This investigation was conducted by means of qualitative social research. The target group of this examination were employees from various German life insurance companies …
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Flow within the engineering pipeline: Motivation of high -achieving students during the high school to college transition
… higher mastery goal orientation scores than performance goals (approach and avoidance) in high school and college. They also perceived their engineering classrooms as promoting mastery goals over performance goals.</p><p>As predicted, students' perceptions of the classroom environment were …
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Can goal specific self-efficacy measures predict goal choice: understanding the 2x2 achievement goal framework through self-efficacy theory
<p>The achievement goals that one adopts in an academic context have been shown to be associated with, as well as causally related to, important outcomes. Currently, the most widely accepted theory holds that achievement goals are the result of one's implicit </p> <p>theory of intelligence. …
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Don't Worry, Be Happy? Neuroticism, Trait -Consistent Mood Regulation, and Performance
… The present studies show that when driven by performance goals, people can be motivated to experience unpleasant mood states when they are trait-consistent, because of their instrumental benefits (Tamir, Robinson, & Clore, 2002). In 4 studies, neurotic individuals preferred to increase their …
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The Organizational Communication Climate and Utilization of Lines of Communication Within Purdue University Calumet
… Supportiveness, Openness, Listening, and Performance Goals aspects and a Composite Climate through written surveys with Faculty, Clerical and Service staff, and Administrative/Professional groups. System-Semantics methodology utilized (1) phone interviews to identify channels of …
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Beyond gates, guards and guns : the systems-theoretic framework for security at nuclear facilities
… for PPS to meet expected nuclear security performance goals. In this dissertation, I propose the System-Theoretic Framework for Security (the STFS) for evaluating system-level interactions between PPS and human/organizational behaviors to describe overall security performance.
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The role of long duration energy storage in decarbonizing power systems
… lacks a broad assessment of the cost and performance requirements necessary for LDES technology to enable low- or zero-carbon power systems, the effect of various policy environments on those requirements, and an evaluation of currently existing LDES technologies and their potential to …
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Successful streets : performance measures, community engagement, and urban street design
… time, a growing number of agencies are using performance measurement, the tracking and reporting of specific transportation-related variables, to evaluate and document their impacts. This report attempts to understand the role that performance measurement plays in design decision-making for …
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Optimal maneuver guidance with sensor line of sight constraint
… optimization criteria are included separately as performance goals and in combination as state equality constraints for design tradeoff analysis. In conjunction with vehicle flight constraints, a sensor line-of -sight (LOS) angle limit is imposed as a control variable inequality constraint to …
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Self-Regulation in a Simultaneous, Multiple-Goal Environment
… of individuals' self-regulation with respect to performance goals while pursuing multiple, simultaneous goals. It was proposed that goal revision and effort allocation would be influenced by goal-performance discrepancies (GPD), causal attributions for factors affecting performance, …
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An analysis of university student academic self-entitlement: Levels of entitlement, academic year, and gender
… placed upon unprepared faculty, emphasizes performance goals rather than learning goals, and threatens to place the core values of education at stake. This study investigates whether relationships exist between student gender, year in school, and academic self-entitlement. University …
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Evolutionary Learning of Goal-Driven Multi-agent Communication
… designed or adjusted in order to reflect the performance trade-offs made according to the characteristics of the mission requirement. Research has acknowledged the crucial role that communication plays in solving many performance problems. Conversely, research efforts that address …
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Conformal Microstrip GPS Antenna for Missile Application
<p> Optimal missile guidance and flight performance require accurate and continuously updated in-flight coordinate data. The Global Positioning System (GPS) is used for this positional awareness. However, due to missile rotation and orientation variations during flight, GPS signal reception using …
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Origins of children's learned helpless and mastery-oriented achievement patterns in the family
… individual difference that affects children's performance in achievement settings. Despite evidence that parents have a consistent and long-term influence on their child's achievement motivation and performance, few studies have examined parents' influence on children's helpless and mastery …
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Proactive techniques for correct and predictable Internet routing
… protocols to realize various economic and performance goals. Unfortunately, there is no systematic way to predict how the configuration will affect the behavior of the routing protocol or to determine whether the routing protocol will operate correctly at all. This dissertation develops …
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