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Optimal Team Size and Monitoring in Organizations
- The Accounting Review
, 2008
"... ABSTRACT: We formulate and analyze a model of team structure and monitoring within a Linear-Exponential-Normal (LEN) agency framework. We incorporate three key in-struments in the internal design of an organization involving team production: team size, monitoring activities, and incentive contracts. ..."
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ABSTRACT: We formulate and analyze a model of team structure and monitoring within a Linear-Exponential-Normal (LEN) agency framework. We incorporate three key in-struments in the internal design of an organization involving team production: team size, monitoring activities, and incentive contracts. We show that the complex trade-offs among these instruments lead to surprisingly simple implications. One such result is that the equilibrium level of pay-for-performance for workers is attenuated and is, at times, invariant to most environmental variables of interest. As such, our model helps explain the empirical puzzle of the lack of a trade-off for risk / incentives shown in standard agency models. Our work also demonstrates the presence of complemen-tarities between team size and monitoring, and between worker talent and managerial monitoring ability. Finally, we derive predictions about the impact of environmental var-iables on the choice of optimal team size, incentives, and employee quality, even in the presence of an external marketplace for talent.
TITLE Early Awareness Test Preparation Pilot Program. PUB DATE 2000-00-00
"... This document examines whether early targeted academic intervention can improve college admission test scores and pre- college planning for students identified through the Duke Talent Search and the school system Challenge Program. Students selected for the Early Awareness Test Preparation Pilot Pro ..."
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This document examines whether early targeted academic intervention can improve college admission test scores and pre- college planning for students identified through the Duke Talent Search and the school system Challenge Program. Students selected for the Early Awareness Test Preparation Pilot Program were invited to participate during their eighth grade year and a 4-year commitment to the program was requested. Through the pilot program, students annually attended a series of classes in Math, English, and test taking skills. Preliminary results indicated that the program assisted a majority of students in gaining an opportunity to increase test scores. Both the lack of an exit summary and the size of the pilot qDrogram were drawbacks to the study. Approximately half of the students were unable to attend the last testing. It is hoped that upon completion of the 4-year pilot, results from the first year can be assessed in comparison to the total remaining student population. This could provide a clearer picture of what can be accomplished through the utilization of the program. (Contains 13 references.) (JDM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. Running Heading: Early awareness test preparation pilot program
Decentralisation and Reorganisation in Local Government
"... The recent local government reorganisation in England, Scotland and Wales has served to resurrect past debates about the relative virtues of a single-tier or unitary structure (Royal Commission on Local Government in England, 1969; Davies, 1970). While the abolition of the metropolitan county counci ..."
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The recent local government reorganisation in England, Scotland and Wales has served to resurrect past debates about the relative virtues of a single-tier or unitary structure (Royal Commission on Local Government in England, 1969; Davies, 1970). While the abolition of the metropolitan county councils in 1986
BEHAVIOUR OF AN EPDM GEOMEMBRANE 18 YEARS AFTER ITS INSTALLATION IN A WATER RESERVOIR
, 2015
"... ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the durability of an EPDM geomembrane installed 18 years ago in the water reservoir of El Boquerón (Canary Islands, Spain). To do so, samples were regularly taken from different places of the water reservoir. Samples were laboratory tested as follo ..."
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ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to evaluate the durability of an EPDM geomembrane installed 18 years ago in the water reservoir of El Boquerón (Canary Islands, Spain). To do so, samples were regularly taken from different places of the water reservoir. Samples were laboratory tested as follows: foldability at low temperature, static and dynamic puncture resistance, Shore-A hardness, tensile strength and elongation at break, seam strength and microscopic techniques. The obtained results confirm the EPDM geomembrane is still in good condition.
Mechanics Meets Economics, Once Again: On the Rationale of “Rational Economics ” of the Guillaume Brothers *
"... Roger Nougaret and Jean-Pierre Potier for valuable advice and assistance. I have also benefited from ..."
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Roger Nougaret and Jean-Pierre Potier for valuable advice and assistance. I have also benefited from
OF ATTITUDES AMONG CHINESE AND KOREAN EXECUTIVES
"... ince the publication of Tung’s (1981) seminal work on expatriate assign-ments of U.S. multinationals, there has been an explosion of interest in the subject (Harzing, 1995). Various aspects of international assignments have re-ceived much research attention, including the staffing criteria, training ..."
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ince the publication of Tung’s (1981) seminal work on expatriate assign-ments of U.S. multinationals, there has been an explosion of interest in the subject (Harzing, 1995). Various aspects of international assignments have re-ceived much research attention, including the staffing criteria, training for cross-cultural encounters, performance of expatriates, and women’s suitability for international assign-ments.1 Despite the findings that women suc-ceed in male-dominated countries, there has only been a moderate increase in the use of women in international assignments.2 Thus, it is logical to ask why highly qualified women still are kept away from international
SOCIAL STATUS IN THE VETERANS * COMMUNITY
, 1956
"... Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the aut ..."
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Rights Copyright © is held by the author. Digital access to this material is made possible by the University Libraries, University of Arizona. Further transmission, reproduction or presentation (such as public display or performance) of protected items is prohibited except with permission of the author.
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, 1999
"... "This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accur ..."
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"This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the United States Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof." 3Abstract The goal of the proposed work described in this Final Report was the development of iron-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts that combined high activity, selectivity and life with physical robustness for slurry phase reactors that will produce either low-alpha or high-alpha products. The work described here has optimized the catalyst composition and pretreatment operation for a low-alpha catalyst. In parallel, work has been conducted to design a high-alpha iron catalyst that is suitable for slurry phase synthesis. Studies have been conducted to define the chemical phases present at various stages of the pretreatment and synthesis stages and to define the course of these changes. The oxidation/reduction cycles that are anticipated to occur in large, commercial reactors have been studied at the laboratory scale. Catalyst performance has been determined for catalysts synthesized in this program for activity, selectivity and aging characteristics.
