Business

The answer seems to be experience.  From Tenure, Turnover and the Quality of Teaching – New York Times. The most important single influence is experience: first-year teachers are much less effective than others. The second year is significantly better, and by the fourth year, most teachers hit their stride. But it’s not as clear cut […]

A study featured in Knowlege@Wharton shows that motherhood might affect how much you are paid and how much slack your employer cuts you at work.  Where as motherhood seems to negatively affect women’s pay, fatherhood positively affects men’s pay.  One of their theories was that single women are dedicated to their careers, mothers might be

So one of the factors that figures into how much you get paid for a job is how many people can do the job.  If there are only two people in the world that can do your job, you are going to get paid a lot more than if there are two billion people in

Here’s a business plan that makes sense, upper management – including the CEO! – do not get their bonus until all lower levels have met their targets and collected their bonus.  What a way to instill into managers responsibility for their teams’ targets. Here’s the article: Bottom Up.