We examine independent and joint influences of public service motivation (PSM), job prosocial impact, reward equity on employee engagement. Using panel data collected from 56 managers in Pakistan, we find that with high levels PSM feel more engaged when they experience but low impact or equity. Managers to moderate PSM, however, report being both are high. These findings provide a nuanced under...

This white paper targets power supply engineers and managers alike by providing measurable data in favor of switching to digital power supplies. A power supply designer will find novel implementation ideas to easily achieve and exceed design objectives. Based on the many benefits of digital power described in this white paper, engineering managers will be able to make an informed decision and c...

I is puzzling that firms often continue to invest in product development projects when they should know that demand will be low. We argue that bad products are hard to kill because firms face an inherent conflict when designing managers’ incentives. Rewarding success encourages managers to forge ahead even when demand is low. To avoid investing in low-demand products, the firm must also reward ...

This paper examines the equilibrium consequences of strategic behavior of mutual fund managers who withhold information about their funds and their managerial ability. We show that under this information asymmetry, low skills in the industry can result in a growth of passive management. A separating equilibrium in which skilled managers actively manage funds arises only if their compensation de...

This work shows how a dialogue model can be represented as a factored Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP). The factored representation has several benefits, such as enabling more nuanced reward functions to be specified. Although our dialogue model is significantly larger than past work using POMDPs, experiments on a small testbed problem demonstrate that recent optimisation te...

the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between leadership style and power source of coaches in iranian super league volleyball teams from players’ point of view as well as to prioritize leadership styles and power sources in coaches of all teams. for this purpose, all iranian super league volleyball team players in season 2008-2009 completed the leadership scale for sport (ch...

Our paper addresses the development of the gamification concept with business applications. We report on our survey of customers and managers seeking to participate in gamification on their websites. We examined both customer and manager perspectives and compare survey results in terms of service marketing and characteristics of consumers who engage with gamification platforms. Our data support...

in this paper, we consider a cooperative cognitive radio network in which there is an ofdm primary link and multiple single carrier secondary links.the primary link is required to maintain its secrecy rate above a predefined threshold. if the secrecy rate requirement is not satisfied, the secondary system help primary link to maintain its secrecy rate requirement. in doing so, the secondary trans...

What rewards are important to sales managers? Does the importance of different types of rewards vary across sales management hierarchical levels? Research bearing on these issues has been minimal to date, so these questions have not been answered in the literature. The answers, however, have become increasingly more urgent with dramatic changes in the composition of the workforce. Therefore, th...