BACKGROUND Rewards are important in attracting, motivating and retaining the most qualified employees, and nurses are no exception to this rule. This makes the establishment of an efficient reward system for nurses a true challenge for every hospital manager. A reward does not necessarily have a financial connotation: non-financial rewards may matter too, or may even be more important. Therefor...

In this chapter, we introduce Reward-based and Power-aware scheduling frameworks. Reward-based scheduling is based on the principle of trading precision for timeliness and it is particularly suitable for real-time applications when worst-case guarantees cannot be provided due to overload conditions and/or faults. Power-aware scheduling exploits the convex relation between the CPU speed and the ...

Oscillations of local field potentials (LFPs) in the gamma range are found in many brain regions and are supposed to support the temporal organization of cognitive, perceptual, and motor functions. Even though gamma oscillations have also been observed in ventral striatum, one of the brain's most important structures for motivated behavior and reward processing, their specific function during o...

Due to rapid changes of technology and scientific advances in health systems and need for fast planning in health care, entrepreneurial spirit among employers and employees is a crucial element. According to the field of entrepreneurship research has not been solved and where learning and innovation for healthcare organizations due to the nature of the work required. This study aims to examine ...

The dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) represents one of the most sensitive reward sites in the brain. However, the exact relationship between DRN neuronal activity and reward signaling has been elusive. In this review, we will summarize anatomical, pharmacological, optogenetics, and electrophysiological studies on the functions and circuit mechanisms of DRN neurons in reward processing. The DRN is com...

purpose: customer satisfaction in modern organizations requires employees' job satisfaction that can be led to performance improvement in the organization. in this regard, self-leadership and strengthening of it among the employees and managers can facilitate this subject. the purpose of this paper is to study the relation between self-leadership with job satisfaction and performance impro...

Loyalty Reward programs (LRPs) are marketing programs aimed at rewarding customers for repeat purchasing of a product or a service. Although different types of LRPs exist today across a spectrum of industries (travel, hotel, retail, telecommunication, banking, gasoline, etc.), most of the modern systems have their roots from AAdvantage®, the loyalty program introduced by American Airlines in 19...

Scholars have long suspected that people behave differently when their actions will be observed by or revealed to others. We hypothesize financial reporting reveals managers' lead managers take better align with investor interests. test this hypothesis an experiment in which we manipulate the availability of a report managerial actions. Our evidence shows leads manager choose reinvestment and r...