We model a competition between two teams as an all-pay auction with incomplete information. The teams may differ in size and individuals exert effort to increase the performance of one’s own team via an additively separable aggregation function. The team with a higher performance wins, and its members enjoy the prize as a public good. The value of the prize is identical to members of the same t...

One source of productivity loss due to illness is the reduced "quantity" or "quality" of labor input while working, often referred to as presenteeism. Illness-related presenteeism has been found to be potentially more costly than absenteeism. To value presenteeism, existing methods use wages as a proxy for marginal productivity at the firm level. However, wage may not equal marginal productivit...

Intracellular transport along cytoskeletal filaments is often mediated by two teams of molecular motors that pull on the same cargo and move in opposite directions along the filaments. We have recently shown theoretically that this bidirectional transport can be understood as a stochastic tug-of-war between the two motor teams. Here, we further develop our theory to investigate the experimental...

The threshold at which state social work services respond to children who may have been maltreated has been the subject of debate in the UK and elsewhere over a number of years. This paper presents a conceptual model that helps to explain how threshold decisions are made, based on a review of research in the UK and elsewhere. A range of factors were found to affect thresholds, including the nat...

While many theories about the relationship between information technology (IT) and organizational design have been proposed, there is little empirical evidence on the issue. We examine the influence of organizational design on the demand for IT and the productivity of IT investments, using data from approximately 380 US firms. We find greater demand for IT in firms with greater decentralization...

Understanding the implementation of evidence-based practice (EBP) in community service settings is critical for the successful translation of research to practice. However, we have limited research evidence about the impact of EBP implementation on the mental health and social service workforce. In a previous study we demonstrated reduced staff turnover where an EBP was implemented with fidelit...

This article presents a systematic review of the effectiveness of wraparound, a value-guided, widely used service planning process and philosophy of care originally developed for children with serious emotional disturbance and their families. In contrast to conventional systematic reviews, which concentrate on the empirical literature, this article uses the multidimensional evidence-based pract...

This paper reports on the Partnership Initiative in Nursing and Social Services (PINSS), a project that placed community nurses within social services Assessment and Care Management Teams (ACMTs) within two Social Services Departments (SSDs) within the East Midlands. The project aimed to assess the impact of the nurses on the social services environment and the parallel effects on the nurses of...

Being able to work in a team is an important skill for a college student. Many courses include team projects that require students work in groups. This is especially true for upper-level undergraduate courses and graduate-level courses. Groupware is an important tool that assists team members, especially those in virtual teams, to work effectively together. However, groupware wasn’t effectively...

BACKGROUND Following the implementation of a new final Year 5 curriculum in one medical school we carried out a study to explore the experience of the transition from final student year to Pre-Registration House Officer (PRHO). This study looks at the experiences of two successive cohorts of PRHOs in relation to team work, support and shared responsibility in their transition from final year st...