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Communication, cooperation and collusion in team tournaments - An experimental study

Sutter, Matthias; Strassmair, Christina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …

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Entry into Winner-Take-All and Proportional-Prize Contests: An Experimental Study

Cason, Timothy; Masters, William; Sheremeta, Roman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This experiment compares the performance of two contest designs: a standard winner-take-all tournament with a single fixed prize, and a novel proportional-payment design in which that same prize is divided among contestants by their share of total achievement. We find that proportional prizes...

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Incentive pay and gender gaps in the Nordic countries

Westling, Tatu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper explores the effect of incentive pay on gender pay gaps in Finland, Norway and Sweden among professionals and managers within MNCs. Mercer 2009 Total Remuneration Survey data is utilised. Uniform job ladder, occupation, industry and wage definitions enable consistent cross-country...

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The human resource related activities and quality function deployment

Bojadziev, Marjan; Bocevska, Kristina - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The idea of paper is to explore the function of HR department, but from standpoint of service quality provided by HR department. The service quality for the department mentioned above, within the organization, will be presented as category, depending from a couple of factors including the type...

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Perceived effectiveness of training and development: a case study in stc technologies pvt ltd., chennai

Swaminathan, j; Gowri shankar, u - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Training is the act of increasing the knowledge and skill of an employee for doing particular job .The training is to acquire new skill, technical knowledge, problemsolving, etc. Training improves the performance of employees on present jobs and prepares them for taking up new assignments in the...

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Does Work Place Sexual Harassment Matter?

Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Today's workplace is diverseand constantly altering. The conventional employer/employee relationship of past has been turned upside down. Employees are living in a diverse and growing economy and have almost unlimited job opportunities but they face the bad times of recession too. The overall...

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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? The determinants of high incomes in Germany

Hirschel, Dierk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

In neoclassical economic theory the level of individual income is predominantly determined by individual job performance. Thus high incomes reflect the high marginal productivity of labour of the affluent working population. While the scientific research of poverty has a long tradition, nearly...

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In pursuit for impeccable veracity

Popov, Sergey V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

I study the institution of avoiding to hire one’s school own PhD graduates for assistant professorships. I argue that this institution is necessary to create better incentives for researchers to incorporate new information in studies, facilitating the convergence to asymptotic learning of the...

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Information Dissemination through Official Websites: A Critique

Bhattacharya, Kaushik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Website constructions in the world have progressed at a fast pace. However, compared to the pace of development, the issue of benchmarking of the contents of official websites has not yet received adequate attention. The paper argues that with the proliferation of official websites worldwide,...

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A generalized exploratory method for managerial analysis and business communication

Săvoiu, Gheorghe; Viorel, Crăciuneanu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Contemporary managerial processes are focused on communication and negotiation, where efficiency acquires an essential … organizations, regions and national economies. This paper illustrates cybernetic communication’s theories based on information (with … and models of communication, the kind of form, and expression relationship human communication intends to achieve, the …

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