Performance Standards and Employee Effort: Evidence From Teacher Absences

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Negotiating the Great Recession: How Teacher Collective Bargaining Outcomes Change in Times of Financial Duress

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Influence of Attendance Policy Implementation on Faculty Absenteeism: Issues and Prospects for Policy Upgrade

“…"Teacher absences fell in response to increased accountability pressure suggests that one mechanism through which consequential accountability policies affect student achievement is through increased teacher effort" (Gerhenson, 2015). Monitoring attendance encompasses ISSN 2162-3058 2019 employees" productivity or students" performance (Deane & Murphy, 2016) while the working environment where the learning takes place, and the factors relevant to that environment were seen by many researchers as the key factors to achieving quality teaching, and more importantly good turn out in teacher attendance (McKenzie et al, 2014).…”