Abstract Performance feedback is an integral element of accounting system, and firms provide this at varying frequencies to their employees. This paper explicates the impact interim performance evaluation on principal’s surplus using a dynamic two-period agency model. Two settings are discussed: single-purpose use, wherein information used solely for control purposes, dual-purpose in which prod...

We propose handling of external real time events through multithreading and describe the microarchitecture of our multithreaded Java microcon troller called Komodo microcontroller Real time Java threads are used as interrupt service threads ISTs instead of interrupt service routines ISRs Our proposed Komodo microcontroller supports multiple ISTs with zero cycle context switching overhead We eva...

Subjective Performance Evaluations and Employee Careers Firms commonly use supervisor ratings to evaluate employees when objective performance measures are unavailable. Supervisor ratings are subjective and data containing supervisor ratings typically stem from individual firm level data sets. For both these reasons, doubts persist on how useful such data are for evaluating theories in personne...