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Examination of the individual competencies that differentiate results in direct sales
Sypniewska, Barbara A. - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 1, pp. 83-100
The importance of knowledge and skills in meeting new challenges in production and distribution is particularly evident in today’s market, which is characterized by a saturation of products and strong competition. To be successful in the market, companies must stand out and be creative and...
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The Human Capital Management Movement in U.S. Corporate Law
Georgiev, George S. - 2021
their monitoring and oversight responsibilities, including by amending committee charters to cover HCM matters, identifying …
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Optimizing incentive plan design: A case study
Levenson, Alec; Zoghi, Cindy; Gibbs, Michael; Benson, George - 2011
We study effects of a firm's attempt to optimize an existing incentive scheme to increase sales growth for direct store delivery workers. Before optimization workers reported Ratchet Effects that lowered productivity. The altered incentive plan offered higher compensation for increased sales...
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Low interest rates and executive risk-taking incentives : evidence from the United States
Castro, Paula; Tascon, Maria T.; Castaño, Francisco J.; … - In: Business research quarterly : BRQ 24 (2021) 4, pp. 324-354
incentives of US managers to adopt riskier business policies. Specifically, based on the agency problems between shareholders and … rates on managers’ risk-taking incentives proxied by the sensitivity of executive compensation to stock return volatility … increase the managers’ short-term risk-taking incentives and that those incentives contribute to the risk effectively taken by …
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Human resource management and firm performance
Priyadharshini, S. K.; Kamalanabhan, T. J.; Madhumathi, R. - In: International journal of business innovation and research 9 (2015) 2, pp. 229-251
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Human resource management practices of foreign manufacturing companies in Bangladesh : a comparative study
Miah, Mohammad Khasro; Takahashi, Yoshi - In: South Asian journal of human resources management 9 (2022) 2, pp. 301-323
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Income variance dynamics and heterogeneity
Meghir, Costas; Pistaferri, Luigi - 2001
Recent theoretical work has shown the importance of measuring microeconomic uncertainty for models of both general and partial equilibrium under imperfect insurance. In this paper the assumption of i.i.d. income innovations used in previous empirical studies is removed and the focus of the...
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Polarization and rising wage inequality: comparing the U.S. and Germany
Antonczyk, Dirk; DeLeire, Thomas; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper compares trends in wage inequality in the U.S. and Germany using an approach developed by MaCurdy and Mroz (1995) to separate age, time, and cohort effects. Between 1979 and 2004, wage inequality increased strongly in both the U.S. and Germany but there were various country specific...
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Why Does Unemployment Hurt the Employed? Evidence from the Life Satisfaction Gap between the Public and the Private Sector
Luechinger, Simon; Meier, Stephan; Stutzer, Alois - 2008
High rates of unemployment entail substantial costs to the working population in terms of reduced subjective well-being. This paper studies the importance of individual economic security, in particular job security, in workers' well-being by exploiting sectorspecific institutional differences in...
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An Empirical Measure for Labor Market Density
Gautier, Pieter A.; Teulings, Coen N. - 2000
In this paper we derive a structural measure for labor market density based on the Ellison and Glasear (1997) Index for industry concentration. This labor market density measure serves as a proxy for the number of workers that can reach a certain work area within a reasonal amount of traveling...
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