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Examining Humans’ Problem-Solving Styles in Technology-Rich Environments Using Log File Data [PDF]
Journal of Intelligence, 2022 This study investigated how one’s problem-solving style impacts his/her problem-solving performance in technology-rich environments. Drawing upon experiential learning theory, we extracted two behavioral indicators (i.e., planning duration for problem ...
Yizhu Gao +4 more
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A value-based model of job performance. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2022 This agent-based model contributes to a theory of corporate culture in which company performance and employees' behaviour result from the interaction between financial incentives, motivational factors and endogenous social norms.
Michael Roos +2 more
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Do truth-telling oaths improve honesty in crowd-working? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 This study explores whether an oath to honesty can reduce both shirking and lying among crowd-sourced internet workers. Using a classic coin-flip experiment, we first confirm that a substantial majority of Mechanical Turk workers both shirk and lie when ...
Nicolas Jacquemet +4 more
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The mediating role of ICU nurses’ moral disengagement between moral resilience and moral distress [PDF]
BMC NursingBackground Moral distress is recognized as an important psychological risk factor in nursing practice, potentially negatively impacting nurses’ mental health and ethical nursing decision-making. However, little is known about ICU nurses’ moral resilience
He Juanfeng +4 more
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Proxy voting in the U.S. House of Representatives: Legislative shirking in new clothing?
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics, 2023 New technological developments have heightened interest in understanding and evaluating new tools of participatory and representative engagement in the political sphere.
Franklin G Mixon +2 more
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Strategic Shirking in Bilateral Trade* [PDF]
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2021 AbstractIn this paper, I study bilateral trade, where the seller can undertake specific investments before the binary trade transaction takes place. I identify a novel reason for hold‐up and contractual inefficiency in this canonical setting. The investing party can shirk for strategic reasons; that is, exert an effort so low that trade becomes ...
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Shirking and Slacking in Parliament [PDF]
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2020 How and why do the activities of members of parliament (MPs) change in response to electoral constraints? In this article, we draw on unique and newly collected data from the Swiss federal chambers and two cantonal parliaments (Basel‐Stadt and Basel‐Land) to explore the effects of electoral constraints. Leveraging variation in mandatory term limits, we
Elena Frech, Niels D. Goet, Simon Hug
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Opportunism of University Lecturers As a Way to Adaptate the External Control Activities Strengthening [PDF]
Журнал институциональных исследований, 2016 At the present the Russian government is undertaking a higher education system reform actively introducing management tools of new public management. Implementation of these instruments is accompanied by the transformation of universities in the customer-
Margarita V. Kurbatova, Elena S. Kagan
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Cognitive Reflection and the Diligent Worker: An Experimental Study of Millennials. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Recent studies have shown that despite crucially needing the creative talent of millennials (people born after 1980) organizations have been reluctant to hire young workers because of their supposed lack of diligence.
Brice Corgnet +2 more
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Shirking, Standards and the Probability of Detection [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015 ABSTRACTBy relaxing the common efficiency wage assumption of exogenous shirking detection probabilities, we demonstrate how standards and efficiency wages are related. In a more general setting where the probability of detection depends upon the equilibrium effort level of non‐shirkers, we show that the uniformly positive (negative) supply‐side ...
Skåtun JD, Sessions JG
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