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Does Information Affect Homophily?
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the … on mentor quality is provided. The evidence suggests that female students use mentor gender to alleviate information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351901
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Does Information Affect Homophily?
Gallen, Yana; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
It is common for mentorship programs to use race, gender, and nationality to match mentors and mentees. Despite the … on mentor quality is provided. The evidence suggests that female students use mentor gender to alleviate information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013353407
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Underrepresentation, Quotas and Quality: A Dynamic Argument for Reform
Arve, Malin; Valasek, Justin - 2023
both the identity and perceived quality of their mentors (seniors). A preference for homophily results in the persistence …
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Identity, trust and altruism: An experiment on preferences and microfinance lending
Chen, Josie I.; Foster, Andrew D.; Putterman, Louis G. - 2017
neediness and trustworthiness, and identity-related factors such as ethnicity and gender. By looking at both channels together …) lenders have a statistically significant preference for borrowers with whom they share gender and ethnic similarity even after …
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Design mentoring approach in companies in Poland
Baran, Małgorzata - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 285-300
In the contemporary world of business, mentoring has become common practice. Its objectives include the personal and professional development of employees, training new employees, nurturing talents, planning for successions and developing leaders. A literature review has enabled the author to...
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A New Look at Performance Appraisal for Scientists and Engineers
Wilson, Donald K.; Mueser, Roland; Raelin, Joseph A. - In: Research-Technology Management 37 (1994) 4, pp. 51-55
The performance appraisal as usually carried out by an organization's management is often incompatible with the needs of the technical staff. Nevertheless, it serves the organizational requirement for evaluation, albeit sometimes poorly. For most professionals, however, it probably does their...
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The importance of mentorship in diminishing workaholism 1030 and increasing heavy work investment: Evidence from the United States
Sloan, David; Mikkelson, Alan C.; Văduva, Sebastian - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 22 (2020) Special Issue No. 14, pp. 1030-1048
To examine if mentorship can be utilized to alleviate workaholic tendencies and encourage heavy work investment, our … paper explored the links between mentorship functions, mentorship quality, and employee outcomes. Hypotheses were tested …'s novelty is the analysis of how mentorship functions of career support, psychosocial support and role modeling have a direct …
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"You must not know about me": On the willingness to share personal data
Schudy, Simeon; Utikal, Verena - 2015
Although understanding preferences for privacy is of great importance to economists, businesses and politicians little is known about the factors that shape the individual willingness to share personal data. This article provides three experimental studies with a total of 470 participants that...
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Using Preferred Outcome Distributions to estimate Value and Probability Weighting Functions in Decisions under Risk
Donkers, Bas; Lourenco, Carlos J.S.; Dellaert, Benedict G.C. - 2013
In this paper we propose the use of preferred outcome distributions as a new method to elicit individuals' value and probability weighting functions in decisions under risk. Extant approaches for the elicitation of these two key ingredients of individuals' risk attitude typically rely on a long,...
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Selecting public goods institutions: Who likes to punish and reward?
Drouvelis, Michalis; Jamison, Julian C. - 2012
The authors extend the standard public goods game in a variety of ways, in particular by allowing for endogenous preference over institutions and by studying the relationship between individual types, their preferences, and later behavior within the various institutional environments. They...
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