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| Giants Send Pizza To Royals Front Office After World Series Win - RealGM Wiretap
The San Francisco Giants front office congratulated the Kansas City Royals front office on a job well done by sending them some celebratory pizza on Monday.
Minsky's Pizza filled the order for the World Series champions.
"The San Francisco Giants just called -- and they want to send 25 pizzas to Kauffman Stadium for the Royals and their staff David Beckham Manchester United Jersey ," said Kenny Kantner, Manager and Partner for Minsky's. "It was a pretty exciting moment -- especially when the Giants wanted to include this note: 'Have fun planning the parade – and enjoy the ride!'"
Andrew Baggarly reports the tradition actually started with the Boston Red Sox last year. They sent pizza to the Giants after they defeated the Royals in seven games.
Marlins Fear Jose Fernandez Done For Season - RealGM Wiretap
The Miami Marlins fear Jose Fernandez will need season-ending elbow surgery, according to sources.
Miami placed Fernandez on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained right elbow on Monday.
Fernandez will return to Miami for further evaluation as the Marlins await more results from an MRI in Los Angeles.
Fernandez, 21, is 4-2 with a 2.44 ERA in eight starts this season. He leads all of the majors with 70 strikeouts.
Misalignment of incentives usually comes down to a problem of workers choosing to do the \wrong\ thing. The variations on the basic model of agency illustrate many of these problems:
1 – When workers have several tasks to perform, incentive systems have a hard time getting the balance right. Attention and effort will be given to those activities on which the employee perceives that he or she can have the biggest impact in terms of compensation. The perception of a large impact, in turn, depends on two considerations: Does the reward system take significant account of this or that measure of performance? And how much control does the individual have over the performance measures – how noisy is the relationship between efforts and performance measures?
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2 – Misalignment also results from dynamic effects: For several reasons – administrative cost, to provide reasonable measures of performance along some dimensions, and to keep the scheme from consuming workers\ attention review periods may be kept fairly long. But then workers have the incentive to play games with the review system, as a review deadline approaches.
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But misalignment isn\t simply a matter of value-neutral responses to a given set of economic incentives. When a firm engages in pay for performance, it is signaling to employees – perhaps unintentionally, but nonetheless what it seemingly wants. When the organization explicitly rewards efforts at task A, it is sending a fairly strong signal that tasks Band C, not explicitly rewarded, are less important. When it rewards quantity, it is signaling that quality is less important. When it makes compensation more salient, it signals that \pushing the envelope\ to get more compensation is okay. Let us be clear here: Most management that engages in pay for performance would be aghast at the suggestion that they are sending these signals. But in at least some external environments Blank Manchester United Jersey , those signals are going to be received, whether or not they were intentionally sent.
Tournaments can promote unhealthy rivalry, undesirable conformity, or worker attempts to collide against the employer. (When the comparative evaluation is done relative to an external benchmark, the problem of conformity remains, but the other two problems are usually largely absent.)Tournaments and benchmarking schemes will be viewed as inequitable if they don\t take into account uncontrollable factors that lead to differences in performance outcomes. But efforts to surmount those difficulties through elaborate subjectively determined handicapping schemes are often rife with politicking and viewed as illegitimate on those grounds. And schemes that base rewards on improvements in individual performance raise the specter of the ratchet effect and the corresponding individual response to seek short-term improvements and then depart.
Legitimacy is a potential concern not only with schemes that employ comparative evaluation, but whenever a scheme either doesn\t take account of special circumstances or does so subjectively. The standard story here concerns rewarding division managers in a large corporation based on how well their divisions do. Imagine such a scheme being used by a firm with an important division that is in trouble. Top management may want to send one of their most talented managers to tackle the problems facing this division. But is the manager to be rewarded:
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2) On a subjectively \adjusted\ basis, sparking cries of favoritism and encouraging politicking; or
3) based on \objective\ improvements in performance, .
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