In this paper, we are interested in the informational value of Major League Baseball (MLB) managerial compensation on a team’s performance. Using data on manager’s contracts, team performance, and team and manager characteristics, first, we determine the variables that influence a manager's salary. Then, we use a forecasting-type analysis to study the determinants of a manager’s performance, me...

abstract: the aim of this research is to study factors affecting teachers’ job satisfaction in agricultural applied scientific centers in tehran and alborz provinces. research population included all the teachers in the mentioned centers (n=156), 72 of them were selected by stratified random sampling method. the main tool for data collection was a questionnaire whose content validity and reliab...

South Korea needs to actively implement work-family balance policies to increase both the low employment rate of women and the low total fertility rate. This study analyzes the quantitative benefits that the implementation of work-family balance policies provides to employees and employers. We conducted a choice experiment that asked 633 participants about their stated preferences for a hypothe...

This study aims to determine the level of knowledge on items payable income zakah calculation among civil servants in Perak. Quatitative method using instrument questionnaire is employed obtain data attaing research objective. Four are studied which salary, fixed monthly allowance, overdue salary and bonus by involving 108 respondents. The collected then analyzed analysis frequency, percentage ...

In knowledge based industry, compensation planning is a key strategic area for growth and success. In order to retain high performance employees, optimum salary offer is essential. Determining such salary figures, based on various information about a current employee or a prospective employee, is a challenge that corporations face very frequently. Although HR managers typically tackle such sala...

In his book The Law of Peoples, John Rawls described an international society inwhich there are enemies and friends seeking their goals by deferent means.Rawls introduced us principles as the fundamental rights of every people. Thepeople who reserve these rights can sustain in the world. Although this theoryis supposed to be part of liberal foreign policy, the peoples Rawls talks aboutare not n...

B EFORE 1985, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa had seen their nominal wage bills expand. This was due, in large part, to a rapid increase in civil service employment—in some countries, the number of civil servants rose by as much as 10 percent a year. This expansion reflected the high degree of government intervention in the economy as well as the need to educate and provide health care to ...

JianGang Wang,* YaLi Wang,* FangLi Guo, ZhiBo Feng, XiangFang Wang, and ChengBiao Lu Henan Province Key Laboratory of Brain Research, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, Peoples Republic of China; Department of Pathophysiology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Henan, Peoples Republic of China; Department of Physiology and Neurobiology, Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, Hena...

This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate gender differences in salaries for academic scientists. Over time gender salary differences can partly be explained by differences in observable characteristics for faculty at the assistant and associate ranks. Substantial gender salary differences for full professors are not explained by observable characteristics. Betwee...

Another question of pubiie interest has presented itself for discussion. Stanley W. Turner, Auditor General, has been drawing salary at the rate of $3,000 per year, since May 27, 1893. There is now a very serious question as to the validity of the law granting him that salary, and it is not impossible that he may have to return to the state several hundred dollars illegally drawn. The legislatu...