In an ongoing organization, such as a large law partnership firm, employees are motivated not only by current rewards but also by the prospect of promotion, and the opportunity to influence policy and make the rules in the future. This leads to a dynamic programming problem in contract design. We model career design in such a firm as a recursive mechanism design problem in an overlapping genera...

We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political skill are something that speakers can actively mitigate; this makes it an important bias to understand. In Study 1, White and Asia...

Despite the increasing participation of women in workforce, their representation decision-making positions on corporate ladder has been slow and remains a worldwide concern. One primary reasons behind this concern identified literature as theory ‘Glass Ceiling’. On other hand, with such enormous strategic potential, more involvement contribution all economic sectors, particularly maritime ports...