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Testing the Accuracy of Employee-Reported Data: An Inexpensive Alternative Approach to Traditional Methods

Hales, Douglas N.; Sridharan, V.; Radhakrishnan, Abirami; … - 2008

Although Information Technology (IT) solutions improve the collection and validation of operational data, Operations Managers must often rely on self-reported data from workers to make decisions. The problem with this data is that they are subject to intentional manipulation, thus reducing their...

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Business Strategy and Top Management Compensation: The Mediating Effects of Employment Risk, Firm Performance and Size

Veliyath, Rajaram; Ferris, Stephen P.; Ramaswamy, Kannan - 1994

We compare top management compensation among prospector, defender, and analyzer strategic types, and the effects of differences in managers' employment risks, firm performance, and firm size. Prospectors performed better and they paid their top management group more than did analyzers. They were...

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The development and validation of a partial competency model for branch managers in the clothing retail industry

Van der Bank, Francois - 2012

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Understanding and measuring job performance constructs enables organisations to utilise their human resources more effectively. The job performance of workers can be conceptualised on two levels, namely on a job result or outcome level (e.g. sales figures, units produced) and...

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Does variable remuneration reward performance? : a study of two Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) listed financial services corporations

Caddy, Ian N. - 2009

' directors and senior executives; the most important being the promulgation of AASB 1046 - Director and Executive Disclosures by …

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Learning as a competitive advantage : innovative training in the Australian aerospace industry

Sloan, Terrence R.; Hyland, Paul W.; Beckett, Ronald C. - University of Western Sydney; University of Western Sydney; … - 2002

For firms to survive in the highly competitive Aerospace Component Supply Market, they must have some sustainable competitive advantages. Customers are demanding continual price reductions and improvements in lead times from their suppliers. In the Asia Pacific region, developing economies such...

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CEO Health and Corporate Governance

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2020

group of executives. Health predicts turnover, measured at appointment and during tenure. These results are consistent with …

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Corporate investment and stock market valuation

Liao, Shushu; Errico, Marco - In: Journal of Business Finance & Accounting 50 (2022) 3-4, pp. 795-819

We study the driving forces behind the positive association observed between corporate investment and stock market valuation, and how they interact with managerial equity incentives and informativeness of investment. We build a dynamic model where managers use investment choices to influence...

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Equal opportunity? Gender gaps in CEO appointments and executive pay

Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli; Tåg, Joacim - 2016

This paper uses exceptionally rich data on Swedish corporate executives and their personal characteristics to study …-eight of the gaps can be attributed to observable gender differences in executives' and their firms' characteristics. Further …. Instead, our results are consistent with the view that male and female executives sharing equal attributes neither have equal …

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The impact of CEO turnover on equity volatility

Clayton, Matthew J.; Hartzell, Jay C.; Rosenberg, Joshua V. - 2003

A change in executive leadership is a significant event in the life of a firm. This study investigates an important consequence of a CEO turnover: a change in equity volatility. We develop three hypotheses about how changes in CEO might affect stock price volatility, and test these hypotheses...

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CORPORATE MULTICULTURALISM IN THE GLOBAL AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

Kaskel, Danielle - 2010

evaluate the prevalence of Hofstede’s dimensions of corporate multicultural awareness among executives in a population of … aerospace executives. Analysis of the aggregated CWQ2 survey responses suggests ways to employ corporate multicultural dimension …

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