Flaws meant some contractors were "gaming" the system, responding in "undesirable ways to the reward structures" including by parking people with complex needs and creaming off payments for the easiest cases.
It warns against abandoning national pay rates: "The encouragement of NHS organisations … to determine their own pay and reward structures will be highly damaging to recruitment, retention and morale, and lead to unequal pay problems across the NHS".
From the high-stakes tests in K-12, to the academic tenure clock, to the economy's focus on short-term return on investments, American society's reward structures tend to discourage unconventional thinking and limit risk-taking….
Reward structures are integral to driving cooperative behaviour.
Managers may for example fail to connect reward structures with task interdependence.
Diversification generally results in lower prices and higher-powered reward structures in core markets.
These results contribute to our understanding of resource allocation processes and reward structures in science-based firms.
In general, the reward-based projects initiated by entrepreneurs represent pre-order mechanisms in their reward structures.
This equilibrium is unlike the stability between reward structures and the allocation of talent proposed in Acemoglu (1995).
Instead, academic reward structures and government funding priorities tend to perpetuate the "train more scientists" status quo.
MRMs have long been used in Markov decision theory to assign cost and reward structures to states of Markov processes for optimization.
