Sentence examples for contract balance from inspiring English sources

Fairness, another indicator for the quality of agreements, is measured in this study through the contract balance, i.e. the difference between the utility reached by each negotiator within one dyad.

Contrary to our prediction is the finding that the quality of negotiation outcomes, in terms of contract balance (fairness) and joint utility (efficiency) is lower when negotiators are provided with the history graph compared to those provided with tables.

For hypotheses concerning the agreement rate, the joint utility, and the contract balance, i.e. hypotheses H 2, H 3(a b), H 5, and H 6(a b), we referred to the data stored by the system Negoisst in the negotiations.

In the negotiation theory, three further indicators are often used to measure the quality of negotiation outcomes: joint outcome (as an indicator for efficiency), contract balance (as an indicator for fairness), and negotiator satisfaction with agreement (as a holistic assessment) [16,33,57].

Officials of the police patrol officers' union, which agreed last September to a new six-year contract balancing with average pay increases of 3.25percentt a year, are asking why the money was put in the budget in the first place and why it was not used to hire new police officers for a department that they say is severely depleted.

GM and Chrysler have winched themselves out of the jagged crevasse they fell into in late 2008 by rethinking everything about their businesses downsizing labor contracts, balance sheets, dealerships, production and, most important, the size of cars to appeal to fuel-conscious consumers.

If those deposits go, banks will be forced to contract their balance sheets.

With three years remaining on the player's contract, the balance of power is nominally with the club.

A Black & Veatch/GE Power Systems consortium has been awarded the contract for balance of island engineering, procurement and technical field advisory services for the complete power island of the natural-gas fueled 600 MW Caojing cogeneration power plant, located in Caojing, Shanghai, China.

"We built a contract that balances both sides very well.

Mr. Steel said that while the company had been able to scale back expenses, renegotiate its union contracts and balance its budget in recent seasons, it doesn't have the money on hand to pay for coming productions.