Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

A research report submitted to the Faculty of Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Management, Johannesburg (February, 1999) / This research report investigates the processes used by middle managers to acquire skills, knowledge and attitudes. An understanding of the processes that best develops each of these is important since each has an impact on managerial effectiveness. The literature review revealed that very little research has been undertaken to discover how middle managers acquire these necessary abilities to become effective managers. The research methodology comprised the self-completion of questionnaires. The sample consisted of 111 respondents, all of whom had at least two years experience in middle management. The. respondents were all students currently studying at the Wits Business School. Respondents rated various training techniques and learning styles and indicated whether each best developed skills, knowledge or attitudes. Quantitative data analysis such as two variable chi square tests, frequency distributions, means, and modes were used. The results revealed that skills, knowledge and attitudes are acquired differently. Furthermore, the research revealed that sector and gender did not influence the learning methods. A list of best practices for the development of skills, knowledge and attitudes was developed. / MT2017

Thesis advisor: Philip Strahan / Chapter 1: Executive Compensation and Aspirational Peer Benchmarking Abstract: Using a comprehensive, hand-collected dataset of explicit peer group relationships, I document that small firms engage in upward compensation benchmarking to a much greater degree than large firms do. In contrast to the prior literature studying larger firms, small firms choose aspirational peers that reflect their executives' shifting opportunity sets. For these firms, compensation benchmarking is indicative of future growth and performance, and the rate at which pay adjusts toward peer levels is sensitive to the transferability of managers' human capital. Overall, the data suggest that growing and outperforming small firms strategically use upward benchmarking to adjust pay in an effort to retain managerial talent. Chapter 2: Common Ownership and Relative Performance Evaluation Abstract: Recent research suggests that large institutional shareholders that simultaneously hold positions in naturally competing firms may influence managers to collude and reduce product market competition. This paper finds that common owners do not alter executive incentive schemes in a way that is conducive to collusion. I find that common ownership is positively related to the use of explicit relative performance evaluation (RPE), which rewards executives for outperforming their peers. Additionally, commonly held firms are more likely to benchmark RPE awards against commonly held peers. My results suggest that the managers of commonly held firms lack the financial incentives to collude with product market rivals. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2018. / Submitted to: Boston College. Carroll School of Management. / Discipline: Finance.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Illinois, 1924. / Vita. "Reprinted from the University of Illinois studies in the social sciences, vol. XII, numbers 1-2." Bibliography: p. 279-286.

Disertasi-Universitas Indonesia. / Summary in English. Bibliography: p. 202-210.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1937. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves i-viii).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1973. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

M.A. (Industrial Psychology) / Please refer to full text to view abstract

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2002. / Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.