Reducing inequity by reallocating rewards

Renal disease screening: a potential tool for reducing health inequity.

Just Rewards: Children and Adults Equate Accidental Inequity with Intentional Unfairness

Humans expect resources to be distributed fairly. They also show biases to construe all acts as intentional. This study investigates whether every unequal distribution is initially assumed to be intentional unfairness. Study 1 presents a control group of adults with a movie showing one individual accidentally receiving less reward than expected for a task. The experimental group was shown the s...

Reducing antibiotic use in influenza: challenges and rewards.

Respiratory tract infections are a frequent cause of medical consultations. Although the majority of such infections are viral in aetiology, they account for three-quarters of all antibiotic consumption, since bacterial infections of the upper and lower respiratory tract, notably bronchitis, sinusitis and pneumonia, are the most frequent complications resulting from virus infections, especially...

Cycle Time Reduction and Runtime Rebalancing by Reallocating Dependent Tasks

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) is a complex information system that provides designing, administrating, and improving the business processes. Task allocation to human resources is one of the most important issues which should be managed more efficiently in BPMS. Task allocation algorithms are defined in order to meet the various policies of organizations. The most important of these...

ON IMPROVING SCHOOL CLIMATE: Reducing Reliance On Rewards And Punishment

This study examined the impact of training early childhood teachers in an emotional intelligence and classroom management program titled Conscious Discipline®. The researchers conducted eight one-day workshops monthly from September through April to an initial group of more than 200 participants. To assess attitudinal changes teachers answered a survey about their school climate and classroom m...