Supervisor Continuity or Co-Location

N G supervisor Prof . Mauro Conti University of Padua candidate co - supervisor

The current Internet architecture was designed as a mean of connecting pairs of hosts and allow them to reliably exchange packets. The way we use it every day deeply changed from pure communication to (mostly) content distribution. The wish to fill the gap between the underlying architecture and the information-centric nature of the current Internet traffic has inspired many new architectures w...

Co-location and Incentives *

The paper studies the effect of the information agents have about their peers' effort on the principal's cost of providing incentives. We use the analysis to address the issue of collocation in organizations, i.e., moving workers from private offices to open spaces or " war rooms " .Using directed graphs to represent peer information we show how the pricipal can gain from more transparancy amon...

Supervenience and Co-location

Co-location is compatible with the doctrine of microphysical supervenience. Microphysical supervenience involves intrinsic qualitative properties that supervene on microphysical structures. Two different objects, such as Socrates and the lump of tissue of which he is constituted, can be co-located objects that supervene on different sets of properties. Some of the properties are shared, but oth...

Do impression management tactics and/or supervisor-subordinate guanxi matter?

This study compares the relative role of impression management tactics and the other form of supervisor–subordinate guanxi (s–s g) in predicting supervisor-rated employee performance. Empirical data were collected from 175 supervisor-subordinate dyads working full-time in Taiwanese organisations. Specifically, this study uses the Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) to formulate employee s...

Acquiring Spanish Psych-Verbs: Maturation or Continuity?