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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"performance-based pay"”.
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Performance Based Pay: Is it a Functional Alternative in Government?
<p>The use of performance-based, or incentive based, compensation plans is ubiquitous in the private sector. Private business operates under the belief that the use of incentives leads to increased performance from employees and higher profits for the companies. This study is centered on the …
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Performance-Based Pay: Perceptions of Elementary Teachers of the Pandora School District
… a resurgence in the support of using teacher pay to influence the outcome of student achievement on state tests. Current research about the effectiveness of these performance-based pay plans is varied and little research exists that qualitatively describes the experience that teachers have …
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Performance based pay: an empirical investigation of the impact of performance pay increases on perceptions critical to successful merit pay programs
… study was to investigate the impact of size of performance pay increases on employee perceptions critical to the success of merit pay programs. Perceptions investigated in this study included: 1) instrumentality, 2) expectancy, 3) performance appraisal administration, 4) performance appraisal …
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Iowa School Superintendents Perceptions of the General Effects of Phase III Plans
… reform have included 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 …
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Merit pay: the Federal Government's pay-for-performance experience.
… 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 1978, the Federal Government began its form of this …
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Teacher Remuneration in South Africa: Incentivizing Performance
… improving the structure of their remuneration. Performance-related pay, which can be based either on measuring learner test scores, or by measuring teacher content knowledge or pedagogical skills, has sometimes been successful in countries with low levels of teacher effort, and may be applicable …
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A status study of classification/salary administration of office support personnel in North Carolina public schools 1985-1987
… status, there should be a standardized performance appraisal instrument, there should be performance-based pay, and salaries of office support personnel were slightly lower than the local business community. Uniformity issues were perceived to exist both internally with the respective …
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An Analysis of Selected 1994-95 Phase III Plans Submitted Under the Iowa Educational Excellence Act (Chapter 294A)
… Phase III of the act promoted the development of performance based and supplemental pay plans. In 1993, the legislative focus was changed to comprehensive school transformation. The study was guided by four questions; 1) What sources of school improvement literature and recommendations are cited …
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Assessment of recruitment and retention strategies in private secondary schools teachers, a case study of Ilala municipal
… local newspapers. Employees seek equitable pay for their work. The finding showed that most employees were not happy with the part of salary, housing allowances and rent allowances, therefore the School`s management should first look into how they can improve the quality of service in …
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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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Pay-for-Performance System in the Department of Defense: A Case Study of the National Security Personnel System
… which was intended to strengthen the work performance of its government employees.</p> <p>From its inception, NSPS was criticized and faced challenges from unions and employees regarding several issues, including inconsistent application of the system, pay inequities, and a lack of …
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Effects of job stability-fostering high-performance work practices on employee subjective well-being
… of this thesis is to study the impact of high-performance work (HPWPs) on the attitudes and behaviour of private sector wage earners in Spain, paying special attention to job security as one of the central dimensions of employment quality. This research analyses the direct effect of such …