Meanwhile, the million-dollar coaches whose dicey tenure depends on increasingly sophisticated 17-year-olds, their mothers and "advisers," are on the verge of blowing themselves up.
For example, grant and tenure success depends on researchers' ability to publish in top journals, but as Wu observes, "translational research deals with patients, and patients aren't a model system.
On the other hand, decisions on faculty promotion and tenure mainly depend on the quantity and quality of their scientific publications.
The current pay system is flawed because good and poor teachers are paid the same, depending on tenure.
The technicians and salaried employees at the assembly plant in Smyrna and the powertrain plant in Decherd will be offered a lump sum of $100,000 or $125,000 depending on tenure, as well as medical and car-buying benefits, the company said.
Depending on the tenure and credit quality, the longer-dated ones — 7 to 10 years — can provide yields of 4 percent to 5 percent, whereas shorter-tenure bonds — below 5 years — can provide yields of 2 percent to 3 percent.
She says that the telco found a correlation between a 1% improvement in net promoter score and a range of financial benefit depending on the tenure of the customer, from three quarters of a million to £1.5m a year.
Mr. Lamy's term ends in October, and Mr. Zoellick's tenure may be short lived, too, depending on whether Mr. Bush wins the November election.
To investigate these issues, we next examine whether there are differences in prosocial motivation across former public sector workers depending on their job tenure.
