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Spreadsheets often contain faults that are difficult to localize. Spectrum-based Fault Localization (SFL) assists users in the fault localization process by ranking cells by their suspiciousness to contain a fault. Since the ranking of the basic SFL approach is often imprecise, we propose three techniques to improve it, i.e., dynamic cones, grouping, and tie-breaking. We evaluate these techniques...
Every year football clubs trade players in order to build competitive rosters able to compete for success, increase the number of their supporters and amplify sponsors and media attention. In the complex system described by the football transfer market can we identify the strategies pursued by successful teams? Where do they search for new talents? Does it pay to constantly change the club roster?...
Since the separation of ownership and management in companies, senior managers as the company's core decision-making, their pay is directly linked to company performance. In this paper takes the construction industry as its object of study, selecting total assets net profit margin, return on equity, earnings per share, total assets, asset-liability ratio indicators which can measure the company performance...
At present, to improve their businesses and obtain more profits by enhancing enterprise competitiveness, more and more listed companies have been committed to the selection of executives and the study of motivation. Among the many forms of incentives, stock-based compensation play a vitally important role. Many scholars abroad did survey on the relationship between equity incentive and corporate performance,...
As described in Michael Lewis' Money ball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game, a baseball player's On Base Percentage is a good metric for rating players' usefulness or productivity. What metrics can be used for gauging a professor's performance? Is there a correlation between salary and these metrics? Are these metrics more accurate for certain fields of study? Is the currently popular practice of...
Based on a sample of 218 first-line service staffs from hotel industry, this study explored the dimensions of Internal Service Quality (ISQ) and examined their relationships with employee work satisfaction, organizational commitment and work engagement. Results showed that the ISQ contains of two dimensions, namely environment quality and interactive quality. Environment quality had significant and...
In this paper we present a novel technique called iDMI that imputes missing values of a data set by combining a decision tree algorithm (DT) and an expectation-maximization (EMI) algorithm. We first divide a data set into horizontal segments through applying a DT algorithm such as C4.5, and then apply an EMI algorithm on each segment in order to impute the missing values belong to the segment. If...
The problem of constraints and incentives to the financial human capital has been increasingly prominent. Within the theoretical frame of the pricing of the human capital and compensation in the financial sector, this paper analyses the mechanism of the executive compensation in China's bank sector. This paper selected some important indicators such as performance and corporate governance from 16...
For the low efficiency and high risk of real estate enterprises in China, we design incentives-supervision model of a real estate enterprise based on principal-agent theory and on some characteristics of the real estate enterprises. Subsequently, in order to improve business performance and lower the risks, we study that how the clients of the real estate enterprises design the compensation for agents...
With the development of China's market economy and the gradual disclosure of executive compensation data, the remuneration of the company's senior managers have become theoretical and practical issues of common concern. In this paper, based on the related theories and the data of listed logistics company in 2009, we do a quantitative study using regression analysis method. By analyzing EPS and ROE,...
As the most positive and active factors, people in airlines play a crucial role in aviation safety. A variety of violations caused by airline employees' negative or discontent mood may also lead to aviation safety accidents. On the basis of the literature review, the paper starts from pay satisfaction and divides it into five parts: pay system, pay structure, pay sense of fairness, intrinsic motivation...
Organizational sense of justice and organizational politics perception are key contents that organizational behavior focuses on. In combing research literature about organizational sense of justice and politics perception, we believe that both have significant correlation in concept, meaning, structure dimensions, which produce impact on employees' cognition and behavior from different levels. The...
This paper studies the relationship between accounting stability and salary contract based on the contract theory. Our study shows that improvement in accounting conservatism increases the sensitivity of managers' salary to return on accounting and also is correlated to market performance of the stock price. The sensitivity of management salary to return on accounting in state-owned enterprises increases...
This paper studies the motivation effect of total rewards upon colleges and universities' seminar members by using a questionnaire designed for seminar members. And the data collected from the questionnaire is under correlation analysis and regression analysis by SPSS. The work environment variable has positive effect on seminar member outward manifestation with a standardized regression coefficient...
The pay gap of management staff to be interpreted as a variable??Cownership structure??Cboard of directors??Csupervisors??Cmanagement remuneration??Cshareholdings and so on to be the explanatory variables??Cthe conclusion is made that the major factors influencing the management staff's pay gap are the scale of enterprise assets??Cboard size and directors'remuneration??DThe proportion of corporate...
This research through survey on 102 college counselors at Hangzhou Xiasha Higher Education District shows that counselor's job autonomy has significantly positive correlation to their job involvement, job satisfaction, career commitment and other factors. On social support, supervisor support has a higher degree of correlation to counselor's job satisfaction and career commitment, while coworker support...
Using the listed company's accounting report of Shanghai, we explore the determinants of CEO compensation. Based on the traditionally studied determinants, CEO human capital characteristic and the characteristic of the firm for example, we investigate the effect of firms' network on CEO compensation especially, and the relationship between them. We find that the scale of the firm and the number of...
Possible factors to constrain China's over-investment have been analyzed and related assumptions been proposed. The behavior of over-investment of the listed companies in China and strategies of its constraint mechanism have been analyzed carefully by constructing related models on the basis of previous experience and the actual situation and by an empirical analysis with collected data in 2006-2008...
This study selects data from 2004 to 2009 of the listed companies in SME board as mixed samples to research the relationship between board characteristics and firm's growth. Calculate the composite index - the composite score of firm's growth to evaluate the firm's growth by factor analysis, and create a multiple regression model to make empirical analysis for the relationship between board characteristics...
In addition to delivering high return to shareholders, enterprises should simultaneously take into account the demands of other stakeholders. Although it may be difficult for enterprises to balance the interests among different interested-related groups, the balancing work can not be neglected. After systematically summarizing the related former classic studies, we put forward hypothesis about the...
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