people with different cultures use different strategies in the process of negotiation and the success of international negotiations is dependent on the negotiators ' ability to communicate effectively in different cultural conditions. the aim of this study is to identify the differences between the negotiation style of iranian and korean managers. for this reason, this research utilized a ...

Recent research has found drastic differences across gender in how performance and preferences are affected by competition. In light of these, this study addresses how gender affects the use of competitive compensation. When given information about worker ability, male managers, but not female managers, are reluctant to choose the tournament for a female worker. The data also show that even tho...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to describe the emotional intelligence (EI) and examine the corresponding demographic characteristics of front-line Nurse Managers in acute care settings. METHODS This quantitative descriptive study was conducted in eight acute care hospitals in the Midwestern United States. The Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT) was used to measure t...

This study aimed to examine the factors related to work ability among small and medium enterprise (SME) workers in Thailand. The subjects consisted of 845 males and 1,163 females. They were interviewed regarding personal information, working conditions, health status, job stress and work ability. Their blood pressure, body weight and height were also measured. More than half the subjects report...

Why do investors excessively tilt their portfolio towards domestic assets? Recent studies suggest asymmetric information plays a signi…cant role in the home equity bias puzzle. A key assumption in theoretical models is that agents invest in assets and process information on their own. However, most international investments are executed by managers in …nancial institutions. These institutions a...

By applying tournament analysis to the UK Unit Trusts data, the results support significant risk shifting in the family tournament; i.e. interim winning managers tend to increase their level of risk exposure more than losing managers. It also shows that the risk-adjusted returns of the winners outperform those of the losers following the risk taking, which implies that risk altering can be rega...

We propose a new measure, the Ability to Forecast Earnings (AFE), to identify skilled fund managers. AFE focuses on stock performance during a short window around earnings announcements, in which price movements are predominantly due to firmspecific information revealing fundamental values. It is thus less affected by noise and other shocks in the market. Over the period 1984–2008, we find stro...

I present a model that can transform discounts on closed-end mutual funds into a measure of investor sentiment about the ability of fund managers to beat the market. This measure of sentiment varies positively with capital flows into actively managed open-end mutual funds, but negatively with capital flows into passively managed index funds. Investors appear to re-allocate their portfolios betw...

Perhaps the primary concern faced by asset managers, investors, and advisors is the need to focus portfolio risk where more skill has been demonstrated, while reducing or eliminating risk where there has been less skill proven. Surprisingly, limited research has been done on this topic, even though the issue is critically important to both institutional and individual investors who seek to find...