Research Questions-Main variables and Data collection methods Template
Title/Author/
Date
Do charismatic presidents
influence college applications
and alumni donations?
Organizational identity
and performance in US higher
education
Michael N. Bastedo • Elias
Samuels • Molly Kleinman
Published online: 11 February
2014
Activities, Productivity, and
Compensation of Men and
Women in the Life Sciences,
April 2010
The effects of compensation
plans for employee inventions
on R&D productivity: New
evidence from Japanese panel
data
Koichiro Onishi
Theoretical/ Conceptual Research Question(s)/ Main variables (Independent Data collection methods
Framework Hypotheses and Dependent variables)
The conceptual model Does charismatic leadership Independent Variable: - Data collected for 104 presidents of
suggests that leaders’ among college presidents Charismatic Leadership medium to large 4-year private
charisma, ‘‘directly significantly correlate with nonprofit colleges and universities in
influences external the performance of the Dependent Variable: the US (2002-2008).
stakeholders’ organizations they lead? Organizational Performance - Presidential compensation data
identification, which, in obtained from The Chronicle of
turn, affects their How does organizational Higher Education and tax returns.
decisions to participate identity influence the - Charismatic leadership evaluated
[in sup- porting an interpretation of charismatic from video recordings of presidents'
organization]’’ (p. leadership as a signal of speeches by trained raters.
1055) organizational performance - Organizational characteristics
within higher education sourced from federal databases and
institutions? colleges directly.
The conceptual How do the activities, Independent Variable: In 2007, a survey was mailed to
framework analyzes productivity, and Gender (Men and Women) 3,080 life sciences faculty from the
gender gaps in life compensation of men and top 50 NIH-funded universities in
sciences faculty's women differ in the life Dependent Variable 2004. The 74% response rate
professional activities, sciences field? Activities, Productivity and resulted in 2,168 respondents. Data
productivity, and Compensation collected included publication
salaries, aiming to metrics, professional activities, work
uncover persistent hours, and income.
differences despite
controlling for
characteristics and
productivity.
The study explores how Hypothesis 1. The revenue- Independent Variable: The data collection method involved
patent-linked based compensation plans Compensation plans for a questionnaire survey targeting 836
compensation affects linked to sales, profit, or employee inventions Japanese manufacturing firms listed
R&D productivity in license royalties is effective on the first section of the Tokyo
Japanese firms, finding on patent quality. Dependent Variable: Stock Exchange in March 2005. Out
revenue-based Hypothesis 2. Revenue-based Research and Development of these, 360 firms responded, with
incentives boost high- compensation plans linked to (R&D) productivity. 347 firms ultimately included in the
cited patents, especially sales, profit, or license analysis. The survey primarily
benefiting smaller royalties lead to an increase focused on large firms, with over
firms, indicating in high-quality patents. 62% having more than 1000
increased motivation Hypothesis 3. Payment per employees. While it covered the
and productivity in patent application/registration entire manufacturing industry, the
R&D. increases the number of number of firms in food and textiles
patents at the firm level, but was limited.
this payment decreases
average patent quality at the

Vice-Chancellor Pay and
Performance: The Moderating
Effect of Vice- Chancellor
Characteristics
Mohamed H Elmagrhi
Collins G Ntim
The Relationship Between
Leadership Style
& Demographic Characteristics
Of Taiwanese Executives
Career Satisfaction and
Perceived Salary
Competitiveness among
Individuals Who Completed
Postdoctoral Research Training
in Cancer Prevention
firm level because of multi-
tasking problem.
The framework
investigates how How do Vice-Chancellor Data on UK Higher Education
market reforms in Characteristics moderate the Independent Variable: Institutions (HEIs) were collected
higher education affect relationship between Vice- Vice-Chancellor from the Higher Education Statistics
VC pay and Chancellor Pay and Characteristics Agency (HESA) website, resulting in
performance, exploring Performance? a final sample of 117 institutions.
the influence of VC Dependent Variable: Various variables were gathered
characteristics on the Vice-Chancellor Pay and from annual reports, HEI websites,
pay-performance Performance and external sources like
relationship and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and the
offering insights into Times Higher Education (THE)
reform outcomes. world university rankings.
The framework stresses Demographic variables Independent Variable: Data for this research were collected
Taiwan's economic (gender, age, level of Demographic characteristics through a survey of 163 Taiwanese
links with China and education, executive position executives from companies in the
the necessity of in the company, years with Dependent Variable: Kun-Shan area of Mainland China.
effective leadership in the present Leadership Style Additionally, secondary data sources
global competition, company, years of leadership such as reports, books, essays,
integrating Situational with the present company, dissertations, academic journals, and
Leadership Theory to and years of total leadership leadership theory and knowledge
explore the relationship with all companies) and management resources were utilized.
between economic executives’ leadership styles
strategy, organizational are not significantly
culture, and leadership correlated.
styles in Taiwan's
development.
. The framework What factors are associated Independent Variable: Data were collected via an online
addresses research gaps with career satisfaction and demographic, training, and survey targeting individuals who
on career satisfaction perceived salary employment-related factors completed postdoctoral training in
and compensation competitiveness among such as salary, leadership cancer prevention-related programs.
fairness among former individuals who completed roles, race/ethnicity, age, The survey, conducted by Westat in
biomedical postdocs, cancer prevention-related years in current position, and 2014, involved initial notifications
aiming to explore postdoctoral training between employment sector. via email followed by mailed letters.
factors like scientific 1987 and 2011? Responses assessed career
discipline, Dependent Variable: satisfaction and salary
demographics, and job- career satisfaction and competitiveness. Anonymized
related variables. perceived salary responses were reviewed and
competitiveness. approved by NIH and Westat
Institutional Review Boards. A total
of 254 respondents completed the
survey.