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A remuneração variável na percepção dos empregados e suas consequências na motivação e no desempenho
Get PDFIn order to be successful, organizations must have capabilities that allow them to coordinate and motivate behaviors in way that are tuned to the marketplace and produce levels of performance that differentiate them from their competitors. To perform well, it is also necessary to have qualified employees, engaged with organizational goals and motivated towork. In this way, the rewarding system play a strategic role because it can do more than compensate done services. Considering a huge number of possibilities, the decision was to investigate according the perceptions of the employees, how pay-for-performance systemsaffect motivation (understood as a drive to work) and performance (appraised by a selfevaluation). The first step of this study was an exploratory research with 44 companies from several economic sectors, which was followed by a pilot case study done with the objective to test the methodology to be used at a multiple case study with 4 selected private companies from different sectors. Each one started with a qualitative research followed by a qualitative survey which sustained the analyses of hypothesis and lead to conclude: (a) the employees thatevaluated better the pay-for-performance plan were those who were more motivated, (b) the employees significantly more motivated were those who had a better performance, (c) at the employees opinion, the pay-for-performance plan lead to a better performance independentlyof motivation, when compared with the fixed wages plan. It was also investigated the influences of the interviewed personal characteristics on the payfor- performance appraisal, on motivation and on performance (goal achievement), considering as personal characteristics the sex, the hierarchy level, the age, the instruction level, the time in company, the marital state, the number of persons who depends on his/her gains and the role played on the plan. As conclusion, the research indicated that there is no significant difference on pay-for-performance plan appraisal, on motivation and on performance according any of these characteristics. In other words, they do not affect the interviewer appraisal.A constante evolução das empresas e a velocidade com que as mudanças ocorrem exigem formas modernas e flexíveis de organização em busca da eficiência e competitividade. O sucesso dessa busca relaciona-se diretamente com a qualidade do pessoal, ou seja, empregados qualificados, comprometidos com as metas da empresa e motivados em desempenhar bem suas tarefas. Nesse sentido, o Plano de Remuneração Variável tem papel estratégico dentro da organização porque não se resume apenas em compensar a prestação de serviços. Diante de tantas possibilidades, focou-se em investigar, a partir da percepção dos empregados, qual é a influência da remuneração variável na motivação (disposição de se fazer alguma coisa) e no desempenho (medido por meio de uma auto-avaliação). Inicialmente foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória em 44 empresas de setores diferentes. Em seguida, partiu-se para um estudo de caso piloto objetivando testar a metodologia a ser usada no estudo de caso múltiplo com 4 organizações privadas de segmentos diferentes. Em cada uma houve uma pesquisa qualitativa e quantitativa cuja análise (quantitativa) das hipóteses levou às seguintes conclusões: (a) os empregados que avaliam positivamente o Plano de Remuneração Variável são os significativamente mais motivados, (b) os empregados significativamente mais motivados são os que apresentam um melhor desempenho, (c) na opinião dos empregados, o Plano de Remuneração Variável conduz a um melhor desempenho independentemente da motivação, quando comparado com o sistema de remuneração tradicional (remuneração fixa). A se investigar a influência das características pessoais do entrevistado na avaliação do Plano de Remuneração Variável, na motivação e no desempenho (cumprimento de metas) tomando como características pessoais o sexo, o nível hierárquico, a idade, o nível de escolaridade, o tempo no emprego, o estado civil, o número de dependentes e o papel desempenhado pelo entrevistado no Plano de Remuneração Variável chegou-se a conclusão que não existe diferença significativa na avaliação do Plano de Remuneração Variável, na motivação e nodesempenho segundo cada uma destas características, ou seja, elas não afetaram as avaliações dos entrevistados
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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