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The Effects of Interim Performance Evaluations under Risk Aversion
Yurday, Zeynep - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper reconsiders the applicability of a recently posed theoretical result concerning the optimality of not providing interim performance evaluations to the agent when implementing a given amount of total effort. The model used by Lizzeri, Meyers and Persico (2002) under the assumption of a...
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The Effect of Performance Evaluation on Employee’s Job Satisfaction in Pakistan International Airlines Corporation (2013)
Alvi, Mohsin; Surani, Mehreen; Hirani, Saneea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This study is designed to study the relationship between the performance evaluation system and its impact on job satisfaction of employees. A questionnaire is designed for this purpose and the study is conducted to the employees of Pakistan International Airline Corporation. For this purpose the...
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Objective versus Subjective Performance Evaluations
Terstiege, Stefan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Why does incentive pay often depend on subjective rather than objective performance evaluations? After all, subjective evaluations entail a credibility issue. While the most plausible explanation for this practice is lack of adequate objective measures, I argue that subjective evaluations might...
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To Group or Not to Group? Evidence from Mutual Funds
patel, saurin; sarkissian, sergei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The literature has conflicting reports regarding the impact of group decision making on performance. We first observe that in mutual fund studies this results from large discrepancies in reported managerial structures between CRSP and Morningstar databases reaching on average 20% per year. Then...
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The demographics of fund turnover
Christoffersen, Susan E. K.; Sarkissian, Sergei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This article documents various demographic factors which influence mutual fund turnover including managerial experience, location, education, and gender. On average, funds in financial centers trade more but this excess turnover declines with experience. While most extra trading is concentrated...
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The Effects of Managerial Turnover: Evidence from Coach Dismissals in Italian Soccer Teams
De Paola, Maria; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In this paper sport data are used to study the effects of manager replacement on firm performance. Using match results of the major Italian soccer league (“Serie A”) we analyze the effects of coach (manager) changes in terms of team performance. From our preliminary estimates, including year...
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La Evaluación del Rendimiento en las Estructuras Humanas de los Entes Públicos
Ortigueira, Luis C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The present paper show a performance evaluation method of administrative units belonging to public entities of significant dimension (state ministries, important local entities, etc.). The excellence of this method has been experienced during several years by the Administration of the Xunta of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035006
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Academic rankings: an approach to a Portuguese ranking
Bernardino, Pedro; Marques, Rui - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The academic rankings are a controversial subject in higher education. However, despite all the criticism, academic rankings are here to stay and more and more different stakeholders use rankings to obtain information about the institutions’ performance. The two most well-known rankings, The...
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Efficient Indian Commodity Markets – Need for Comprehensive Warehousing System
Sinha, Pankaj; Mathur, Kritika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
explore the status of warehousing and the future requirement of storage facilities in India with special reference to grain … warehousing, since warehousing is necessary for agricultural commodities which are perishable in nature. As futures markets for … commodities grow in their importance, there is a need for augmenting and strengthening the warehousing and delivery system in …
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