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Function valuation (grading) is an essential Human Resources (HR) tool with a long history in business, but a lack of empirical evidence. Based on a unique data sample of German DAX companies from 2006 to 2009, this paper is the first that provides comprehensive empirical results on the accuracy...
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positively, they can help all organisations improve their performance. In this paper we aim to present the main forms of …
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We develop a measurement-error framework for assessing the quality of relative-performance metrics designed to filter … out the systematic component of performance, and analyze relative total shareholder return (rTSR)-the predominant metric … market participants use to isolate managers' idiosyncratic performance-chosen by boards to evaluate managers. Among firms …
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This paper analyzes the bahavior of a principal with bounded memory who can offer a two-period performance …. Finally we consider a modification leads us to a trade-off between more and less frequent evaluations. -- Performance …
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We consider a principal-agent model with moral hazard where the agent's knowledge about the performance measure is … a subset of all informative performance measures. That is, the Informativeness Principle does not hold in our model …
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according to Köszegi and Rabin (2006, 2007). The optimal contract is a binary payment scheme even for a rich performance measure …. Moreover, for diminutive occurrence probabilities for all signals the agent is rewarded with the fixed bonus if his performance …
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We present a dynamic model in which an employee of a firm searches for business projects in a changing environment. It is costly to induce the employee who found a successful project in the past period to search for a new project. Past success can therefore result in profitreducing corporate...
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This paper analyzes the job assignment problem faced by a firm when workers' skills are distributed along several dimensions and jobs require different skills to varying extent. I derive optimal assignment rules with and without slot constraints, and show that under certain circumstances workers...
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I study the optimal choice of investment projects in a continuous time moral hazard model with multitasking. While in the first best, projects are invariably chosen by the net present value (NPV) criterion, moral hazard introduces a cutoff for project execution which depends on both a project's...
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In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird eine modelltheoretische Untersuchung der verschärften sogenannten Herabsetzungsmöglichkeit von Vorstandsbezügen nach dem VorstAG anhand der Turniertheorie vorgenommen. Hierzu wird ein Modell entwickelt, um mögliche ökonomische Auswirkungen der Verminderung...
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